Statuette of Ptah

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of Africa

Late Period, Dynasty 26–30 (about 664–332 BCE)

Egyptian

Ptah was a god credited with creating mankind though the power of thought.

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Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Statuette of Ptah
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date: 664 BCE–332 BCE
Medium: Copper alloy and gold
Dimensions: 15 × 7 × 5.5 cm (5 7/8 × 2 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: W. Moses Willner Fund
Reference Number: 1910.240
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Art Institute of Chicago, Thirty-second Annual Report: June 1, 1910–June 1, 1911 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1911), pp. 19, 62.
Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of The Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), pp. 41n, 104, 105.

The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in 1910.

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