id:			135657
accession number:	1959.187
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.187
updated:		2024-08-08 15:14:48.756000

Talatat: Men Hoeing the Earth, c. 1353–1347 BCE. Egypt, Karnak, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten (1351–1334 BCE). Painted sandstone; overall: 21.4 x 53.3 cm (8 7/16 x 21 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1959.187

title:				Talatat: Men Hoeing the Earth
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creation date:			c. 1353–1347 BCE
creation date earliest:		-1353
creation date latest:		-1347
current location:		107 Egyptian
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Egypt, Karnak, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten (1351–1334 BCE)
technique:	painted sandstone
department:	Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection:	Egypt - New Kingdom
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 21.4 x 53.3 cm (8 7/16 x 21 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Art from the Age of the Sun King
	opening date:   1973-09-17T04:00:00
	<i>Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Art from the Age of the Sun King</i>. The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (organizer) (September 17-November 25, 1973); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (December 19, 1973-February 28, 1974).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Brooklyn/Detroit 1973-74, no. 41', 'opening_date': '1973-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Karnak. Purchased from Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter. <em>Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 11
	url:		https://archive.org/details/EgyptianArt_80670/page/n11

	Cooney, John D. “Amarna Art in the Cleveland Museum.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 55, no. 1 (January 1968): 2–17.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 9-10, fig. 7
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152189

	Kozloff, Arielle P. “Nefertiti, Beloved of the Living Disk.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 64, no. 9 (November 1977): 287–298.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 293-294, fig. 10
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159548

	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. 245; Mentioned: p. 245-246
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