Userhat Holding a Shrine of Amen
(Ancient Egypt and Nubia )
Inscriptions indicate Userhat was an artisan with the title, Chief of the Bronze Workers. Steatite is a relatively soft stone and was often used by the Egyptians for small sculpture.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
D. Fouquet, Cairo, by 1895, [mode of acquisition unknown; Burlington Fine Arts Club 1895, p. 43, no. 10, contributed by Dr. Fouquet]; D. Fouquet Sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 12-14 June 1922, p. 1, no. 4 [said to be from Thebes]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Egypt (Place of Origin)
Measurements
5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1923
Location in Museum
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
22.71