Relief with figures and Sacrificial bulls

ca. 2500 B.C.

Egyptian, Sakkara, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty

Limestone

19 1/8 x 20 x 1 1/2 in. (48.6 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm)

Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund

55.175

Provenance: [Maguid Sameda, Cairo, Egypt ]; purchased from Mr. Sameda by Seattle Art Museum / Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund, Seattle, Washington, September 20, 1955

Photo: Howard Giske

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Published ReferencesTeeter, Emily, Egyptian Art in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1988, no. 2, p. 7

Teeter, Emily, Varia Aegyptiaca, 7, 1991, (San Antonio), p.33

Teeter, Emily, The Egyptian Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, in KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, Vol. 12, No. 3, Fall 2001, illus. p. 30

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