id: 149594
accession number: 1979.2
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Head of King Userkaf, c. 2454–2447 BCE. Egypt, Old Kingdom (2647–2124 BCE), Dynasty 5, reign of Userkaf (2496–2491 BCE). Painted limestone; overall: 6.5 x 7.2 cm (2 9/16 x 2 13/16 in.); face: 4.8 x 4.8 cm (1 7/8 x 1 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1979.2
title: Head of King Userkaf
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creation date: c. 2454–2447 BCE
creation date earliest: -2454
creation date latest: -2447
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creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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culture: Egypt, Old Kingdom (2647–2124 BCE), Dynasty 5, reign of Userkaf (2496–2491 BCE)
technique: painted limestone
department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection: Egypt - Old Kingdom
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 6.5 x 7.2 cm (2 9/16 x 2 13/16 in.); Face: 4.8 x 4.8 cm (1 7/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1979
opening date: 1980-02-13T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).
title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual
opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00
Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'The Year in Review for 1979, Cleveland Museum of Art, (February 13 - March 9, 1980).', 'opening_date': '1980-02-13T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Formerly in the collection of Prince Mohammed Ali, Cairo.
date: ?-1950
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E. G. Massey, Geneva
date: 1950-1972
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Marianne Maspero, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1972-1979
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1979-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (March 1980): 58-99.
page number: No. 1, Illus. p. 63
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667
“Principales Acquisitions Des Musées En 1979.” Gazette Des Beaux Arts, March 1980, 1–79.
page number: p. 26, no. 138
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Cleveland Museum of Art, and Adele Z. Silver. Guide to the Galleries. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.
page number: p. 8, fig. 7
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Kozloff, Arielle P. "Weserkaf, Boy King of Dynasty V." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 7 (1982): 211-23.
page number: pp. 211-23, figs. 1-3
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159780
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Arielle P. Kozloff. An Introduction to the Art of Egypt in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: [The Museum], 1970.
page number: pp. 4-5
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Kozloff, Arielle P. "The Egyptian Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art," Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt 125 (Spring 1984): 4-13.
page number: p. 12
url: https://archive.org/details/NARCE-125/page/n3/mode/2up
Verner, Miroslav. "Les Sculptures de Reneferef Descouvertes a Abousir," Bulletin de L'Institut Français D'Archéologie Orientale 85 (1985).
page number: p. 268
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 2
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n18
Berman, Lawrence M. "La Collection Egyptienne du Cleveland Museum of Art," Bulletin de la Société Française D'Egyptologie 134 (October 1995): 14-29.
page number: p. 27, fig. 8
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Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999
page number: Mentioned: p. 124-125; Reproduced: p. 124, color p. 44
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 71
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Verner, Miroslav. Abusir XXVIII: The Statues of Raneferef and the Royal Sculpture of the Fifth Dynasty. Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Arts 2017.
page number: Reproduced: p. 37-39
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IMAGES
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