Lion-Headed Uto

Description Conservation Exhibitions Provenance Inscription Credit

Description Lion-headed Uto is seated on a throne with uraeus and sun disk, his right hand clenched.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
1/01/1930	Treatment	other
9/17/1959	Treatment	cleaned
1/14/1965	Treatment	cleaned
9/27/1965	Treatment	other

Exhibitions

A Survey of Egyptian Sculpture. Duke University. Dept. of Art, Durham. 1965.

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Translation] on back of throne: Wazet...the scribe, Bastet, son of Seba-r-way, born of ....

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1913

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Creator

Egyptian (Artist)

Period

mid 7th-late 4th century BCE (Late Period)

Medium

cast bronze
(Metal)

Accession Number

54.479

Measurements

H: 9 7/16 in. (24 cm)

Geographies

Egypt (Place of Origin)
Egypt, Zagazig (Place of Discovery)

Location Within Museum

Not On View