Box

Description

Box of cedar wood with ebony veneers and ivory inlays and gilding depicting the god Bes and bearing the cartouches of Amenhotep II: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, c.1427-1400 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.113

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Box

Production information

Unknown
Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

18th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Ivory, Ebony, Cedar, Gold

Collection place(s)

Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Amenhotep II
Depicted: Bes

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• The Tomb

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• I Faraoni (09 Sep 2002 - 25 May 2003)

References

Petrie, W. M. F. 1896. 'Notice of a Casket of Amenhotep II. (XVIII. Dynasty c. 1430 B.C.) in The Late Mr A. H. Rhind's Egyptian Collection...' in The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 30, p.30−33

Murray, M A 1900. Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, cat. 325, p.19-20

Grenfell, A. 1905. PSBA 27, p. 36, fig. 53

Aldred, C. 1951. New Kingdom Art in Ancient Egypt, 58−9, fig. 56

B Porter & R B Moss. 1964.Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings: The Theban Necropolis Part 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press/Griffith Institute), p. 671

Romano, James F. 1980. 'The Origin of the Bes-Image' in Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar 2, pp. 43-44, n. 22

Dodson A., Janssen J.J. 1989. 'A Theban Tomb and its Tenants' in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 75, p. 126, footnote 9

Romano, James F. 1989. 'The Bes-image in Pharaonic Egypt', PhD thesis, New York University, pp. 231-33

Stable, C., Maitland, M., de Bellaigue, D., Potter, D. M., Murray, M. and Bryan, B. (2021) ‘Rediscovering Ancient Egypt: Consideration of the Legacy, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Previously Restored Egyptian Artefacts’, Journal of the Institute of Conservation, 44/2, pp.134-152

On display

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