id:			94122
accession number:	1914.669
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updated:		2025-09-16 20:32:25.851000

Stele of the High Priest of Ptah, Shedsunefertem, 945–924 BCE. Egypt, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasty 22, reign of Shosheng I (943–922 BCE). Limestone, originally painted and gilded; overall: 86.8 x 78.5 cm (34 3/16 x 30 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1914.669

title:				Stele of the High Priest of Ptah, Shedsunefertem
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creation date:			945–924 BCE
creation date earliest:		-945
creation date latest:		-924
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creditline:			Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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culture:	Egypt, Third Intermediate (1069–715 BCE), Dynasty 22, reign of Shosheng I (943–922 BCE)
technique:	limestone, originally painted and gilded
department:	Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection:	Egypt - New Kingdom
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 86.8 x 78.5 cm (34 3/16 x 30 7/8 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	Purchased from Khawam Brothers, Cairo, by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent, April 23, 1913, with 1914.662, 1914.542, and 1914.663
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CITATIONS

	Williams, Caroline Ransom. "Stela of a High-Priest of Memphis." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 5, no. 8/9 (1918): 67-69.
	page number: 	Reproduced: Front Matter; Mentioned: pp. 67-69
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136216

	Williams, Caroline Ransom. "The Egyptian Collection in the Museum of Art at Cleveland, Ohio (Continued)." <em>The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology</em> 5, no. 4 (1918): 279.
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	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/3853580?seq=1

	Moret, Alexandre.<em> The Nile and Egyptian Civilization.</em> London: Kegan Paul, French, Trubner and Co., 1927. p. 202, pl. VII 1.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/nileegyptiancivi00more/page/202/mode/2up

	Tait, G.A.D. "The Egyptian Relief Chalice." <em>The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology</em> 49, no. 4 (1963): 134–5, fig. 7.
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	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/3855703?seq=2

	Schulman, Alan R. "Two Unrecognized Monuments of Shedsunefertem." <em>Journal of Middle Eastern Studies</em> 39, no. 4 (1980): 308, fn. 8d.
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	url:		jstor.org/stable/544334

	Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 258; Mentioned: p. 258-260
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	Jurman, Claus. Memphis in der Dritten Zwischenzeit: eine studie zur (selbst-) Repräsentation von eliten in der 21. und 22. Dynastie. 2020.
	page number: 	Reproduced; Tafel 114-116, D-060
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