| Object Number |
E13564 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Provenience |
Egypt | Memphis (Egypt) |
| Locus |
From palace of Merenptah |
| Period |
New Kingdom | Nineteenth Dynasty |
| Date Made |
1213-1204 BCE |
| Section |
Egyptian |
| Materials |
Limestone |
| Iconography |
Sphinx | falcon |
| Description |
Window from the palace of Merenptah. Upper part of the window is decorated with Sphinxes, a row of falcon heads, djed pillars and a rolled up reed mat (carved in stone). The lower part of the window has 8 slits to let in light. |
| Height |
129.54 cm |
| Width |
81.28 cm |
| Depth |
15.24 cm |
| Credit Line |
The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1924 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Wegner, Josef W., and Jennifer H. Wegner. The Sphinx That Traveled To Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Page/Fig./Plate: 239 Page/Fig./Plate: 229/8.68,8.69 |
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| Ziegler, Christiane, and Jiro Kondo. Cleopatra and The Queens of Egypt. Tokyo: NHK Promotions Inc., 11 Jul 2015. Page/Fig./Plate: 64/33 |
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| Silverman, David P. Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Cornell University Press, 1997. Page/Fig./Plate: 166-67 |
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| Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings III: Memphis, Part 2. Saqqara to Dahshur. 2nd ed. III. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Page/Fig./Plate: 856 |
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| Ranke, Hermann. "A Guide to the Egyptian Collections." The University Museum Bulletin 15, no. 2-3. (1950): 21-109. See: p. 105, fig. 64 |
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