False door in the form of an palace facade

7th - 6th century B.C.

Limestone

10 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 4 in. (27.3 x 21.6 x 10.2 cm)

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

61.66

Provenance: [Maguid Sameda, Cairo, Egypt]; purchased from Mr. Sameda by Seattle Art Museum / Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, Seattle, Washington, 1961

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Images of Immortality: Egyptian Art in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, December 2, 1988

Published ReferencesTeeter, Emily, Egyptian Art in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1988, fig. 3, illus. p. 5

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. 35

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