Fragment of a Manger with Ibexes

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Fragment of a Manger with Ibexes

Place of OriginEgypt, from Akhetaten (modern Amarna)

DateNew Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhen-aten, 1353-1336 BCE.

Dimensions10 × 20 1/4 × 4 7/8 in. (25.4 × 51.4 × 12.4 cm)

MediumLimestone with paint

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LineGift of the Egypt Exploration Society

Object number

1925.744

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 02, Classic

Collections

Sculpture

Published ReferencesNewton, F.G., "Excavations at El ' Amarnah 1923-24," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 10, 1924, pp. 289-298, repr. pl. XXX, no. 2.

Luckner, Kurt T., "The Art of Egypt, Part 2," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, new series, vol. 14, no.3, Fall 1971, p. 65, repr. fig. 6.

Porter, Bertha and Rosalind L.B. Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings, vol. 4, Lower and Middle Egypt (Delta and Cairo to Asyut), Oxford, 1934, p. 193.

The Toledo Museum of Art, A Guide to the Collections, Toledo, 1976, repr. p. 6.

Houlihan, Patrick F., The animal world of the pharaohs, Cairo, 1996, p. 59, fig. 43, p. 61.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 64, repr. (col.).

Peck, William H., Sandra E. Knudsen and Paula Reich, Egypt in Toledo: The Ancient Egyptian Collection at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2011, p. 58, repr. (col.).

Fortenberry, Diane ed., Souvenirs and New Ideas: Travel and Collecting in Egypt and the Near East, Oxford, UK, Oxbow Books, 2013, p. 31, repr. fig. 3.9, p. 33.

Exhibition HistoryBrooklyn Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Akhenaten and Nefertiti, 1973, no. 151, pg. 212, repr.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Houston Museum of Natural Science; Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom, 1558-1085 B.C., 1982-1983, no. 17, p. 48, repr.

San Antonio Museum of Art, The Sun Disk's Horizon: Life in the City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, 1992-1993.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Saint Louis Art Museum; Indianapolis Museum of Art, The American discovery of ancient Egypt, 1995-1996, no. 12, p. 94, repr.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb, 2010-2012.

Label TextFourteen limestone mangers—feeding troughs carved with images of both wild and domesticated animals—were found in a large animal pen at Pharaoh Akhenaten’s great palace at Amarna. The pen probably doubled as a place to keep animals needed for sacrifices and as a zoo. The imagery is appropriate, showing two alert and lively ibexes approaching a manger and a meal. The spontaneous naturalism of this scene displays an important aspect of the experimental art of the era of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.