Large Limestone Ancestor Bust

Item Overview

Title

Large Limestone Ancestor Bust

Date Created

1999

Collection

UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE)

Notes

Description

Article: Ancestor Bust
Sculptured
262 mm (height)
horizontal

Caption

Figure 2. Large (262 mm) limestone ancestor bust with wig and modius, possibly from Deir el-Medina, late 18th-early 19th Dynasty

Note

Romano, James 1999 Large anthropoid bust (Entry Number 264). In Pharaohs of the sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen, ed. Rita Freed, Yvonne J. Markowitz, and Sue D'Auria, p. 282. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts.

Physical Description

Medium

Limestone

Keywords

Genre

Unspecified Religious and Cult Object

Subject Geographic

Deir el-Medina

Subject Temporal

18th Dynasty
New Kingdom
19th Dynasty

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Material Culture, Art and Architecture
Visual Arts
Ancestor Bust
Statuary