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Temple Relief with Ptolemy III Euergetes

Place of OriginReportedly from Temple of Khonsu at Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt
DatePtolemaic Dynasty, 246-222 BCE
Dimensions17 7/8 × 15 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (45.4 × 38.7 × 3.8 cm)
MediumSandstone with paint
ClassificationSculpture
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1972.17
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 02, Classic
Label TextOnce part of a temple wall, this relief carving presents a typically Egyptian combination of image and text, royalty and piety. The Pharaoh offers heavy gold rings to a god, whose image would have been at the left. He is rendered in an Egyptian style invented around 3000 BCE: the eye and shoulders of the king are depicted from the front, the arms and head in profile. Inscribed above him is a large horizontal loop of rope—a cartouche—that surrounds, designates, and protects one of the king’s names. To the right of the king’s head is a hieroglyph meaning “protection.”Published ReferencesMunzen und Medaillen, Apr. 28, 1972, lot 128, repr. (sales cat.).

"Recent accessions..." Art Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, Spring 1974, p. 98.

"La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 81, no. 1249, repr. p. 102.

Jucker, Ines. "Zum Bildnis Ptolemaios' III. Euergetes I." Antike Kunst, vol. 18, no. 1 (1975), p. 18.

"Treasures for Toledo," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, 1976, vol. 19, nos. 2-3, p. 45.

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. 88-89, repr. (col.) p. 89, (det.) p. 87.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Mummies: From Egypt to Toledo, February 3- May 6, 2018.Comparative ReferencesSee also Dümichen, Johannes, Altägyptische Tempelinschriften, Leipzig, 1867, pl. 89.

cf. Dümichen, Johannes, "Bauurkunde der Tempelanlagen von Edfu," Zeitschrift für Agyptische Sprache und Alterthumskunde, Leipzig, 1870, no. 8, pp. 1 ff. and pl. I ff.

cf. Dümichen, Johannes, "Die sale und Zimmer im Tempel von Dendera," Zeitschrift für Agyptische Sprache und Alterthumskunde, Leipzig, 1869, p. 102.

cf. Jéquier, G., Les Temples Ptolemaiques et Romains, 1924, p. 6ff.

cf. Michalowski, Karnak, 1970, p. 80ff.

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