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Relief of Montuemhet and his wife Shepenmut

Relief of Montuemhet and his wife Shepenmut

ca. 665 B.C.

Egyptian, Luxor, tomb 34

Pigment on limestone
13 9/16 x 10 7/16 in. (34.5 x 26.5 cm)
Purchased from the bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Stewart Downey
53.80
Provenance: Tomb of Mentuemhat, Thebes; [Paul Mallon, Cairo / New York]; purchased from Mr. Mallon by Seattle Art Museum / Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, Seattle, Washington, February 27, 1953, funds from bequest of Mrs. Archibald Stewart and Emma Collins Downey
location
Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Is Egyptian Art African?, June 2, 1998 - July 30, 1999

Olin Art Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, The Aegean: Egyptian through Roman, December 4, 1977 - January 26, 1978
Published ReferencesSeattle Art Museum, S.A.M. Engagement Book (1955)

Porter, Bertha and Rosalind L.B. Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, Vol. 1, The Theban Necropolis Part I, Private Tombs, Second edition, Oxford 1960, p. 60

Leclunt, Jean, Mentouemhat, (Institut Francais d'Acheologie Oriental, Bibliotheque d'Etude, T. XXXV), Le Cairo: Institut Francais, 1961, p. 185, m.

Preview, KLSN Program and Fine Arts Guide (Aug. 1962)

Lesko, Barbara S., Three Reliefs from the Tomb of Mentuemhat, in Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. 9, 1971-72, pp. 85-88, illus. fig. 3

Teeter, Emily, Egyptian Art in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1988, no. 8, pp. 14-15

Teeter, Emily. "Ancient Art of the Mediterranean and the Near East." In Selected Works, pp. 29-32. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1991; p. 32, reproduced (as Relief from the Tomb of Montuemhet).

Russmann, Edna R., Mentuemhat's Kushite Wife (Further Remarks on the Decoration of the Tomb of Mentuemhat, 2), in Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. 34, 1997, pp. 22-24, illus. p. 23, fig. 1

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