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Description: Relief Depicting a Sunshade Bearer

TitleRelief Depicting a Sunshade Bearer

Creator nationality/cultureEgyptian

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date2040 B.C.

Creation date (description)Dynasty XI

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsPainted limestone

LocationYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/7740

Accession number1956.33.87

SubjectsRelief (Sculpture), Egyptian--Ancient

Statusfrom Deir el-Bahri

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Chapter 9: Dynasty XI, 2134–1991 B.C.

W. Stevenson Smith, William Kelly Simpson

The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt

The varied nature of the art of the Middle Kingdom typifies a new age of experiment and invention that grew out of the turbulence of the First Intermediate Period. It returned in strength to the forms of the Old Kingdom, but never recaptured the unity of the Memphite style. It anticipated the sophistication of the New Kingdom and began to look abroad, but without...

Author

W. Stevenson Smith, William Kelly Simpson

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.85-90

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31556&redirecttoanchor=104867

Chapter subject tags:Egypt--History--Eleventh dynastyEgypt--History--Middle Kingdom, ca. 2180-ca. 1551 B.C.Temples--EgyptRelief (Sculpture), EgyptianEgypt--Kings and rulersArt, Ancient--EgyptArchitecture, Ancient--Egypt

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