Ushabti (Funerary Figurine) of Psamtek

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of Africa

Late Period, Dynasty 26, reign of Amasis (570–526 BCE)

Egyptian

This figure is made of faience, a baked substance composed of ground quartz. The color was derived from copper oxides.

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Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Ushabti (Funerary Figurine) of Psamtek
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 570 BCE–526 BCE
Medium: Faience
Dimensions: 18.4 × 7.1 × 3.8 cm (7 1/8 × 2 7/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Theodore W. and Frances S. Robinson
Reference Number: 1942.647
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Roberta Casagrande-Kim, ed., When the Greeks Ruled Egypt: From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. Exh. cat. (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University/Princeton University Press, 2014), p. 21, fig. 1-4, p. 102 (cat. 114).
Florence Dunn Friedman, Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience, exh. cat. (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998), pp. 155 (ill.), 241 (no. 152).

Cleveland Museum of Fine Arts, Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience, May 10, 1998 - July 5, 1998; traveled to the Rhode Island School of Design, August 24, 1998, January 3, 1999; and Fort Worth, TX, Kimbell Art Museum, January 31, 1999 - April 25, 1999.
Art Institute of Chicago, When the Greeks Ruled: Egypt After Alexander the Great, October 31, 2013 - July 27, 2014; traveled to New York, NY, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, October 8, 2014 - January 4, 2015.

Mrs. Nathaniel B. Potter; given to Theodore W. and Frances S. Robinson, Chicago, by 1940 [correspondence in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1942.

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