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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Unknown Creator Nationality: African; North African; Egyptian Creator Dates/Places: Ancient Egypt Africa,North Africa,Egypt Creator Active Place: Africa,North Africa,Egypt Creator Name-CRT: Egyptian Title: Relief Plaque Showing a Queen or Goddess Title Type: preferred View: Full View Creation Start Date: -33 Creation End Date: -3 Creation Date: Ptolemaic Period, 2nd/1st century B.C. Creation Place: Africa,North Africa,Egypt Object Type: Sculpture Materials and Techniques: Limestone, traces of pigment Dimensions: H: 21.1 cm (8-5/16 in.); W: 19.6 cm (7-3/4 in.); D.: 2.1 cm (15/16 in.) AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1920.259 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Purchase Fund Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Subject Description: The woman portrayed on this limestone plaque wears a headdess in the form of a vulture, its wings protectively spread along her head. Bead spacers decorate her elaborate coiffeur, and the ends of her curls are accentuated by tiny drill holes. Rows of lotus flowers, marguerites, and papyrus flowers suspended from a band of round beads compose her broad collar. The basic features of this work-the woman's general appearance, her headdress, and her jewelry-fit well into a tradition of Egyptian art that spans more than a thousand years. Certain features of this composition, however, are characteristic of the Ptolemaic (Greek) Period in Egypt: specially the fleshiness of the cheek, chin, and neck; the small almond-shaped eye and the extended eyebrow line; theshort rounded nose; and the drilled detail of the wig. As goddesses, queens, and certain types of priestesses wore the vulture cap headdress, it is impossible to identify the status of the woman depicted. Artists of the mid- and late Ptolemaic Period (second to first centuries B.C.) employed a curious artistic convention, evident here, of omitting the broad collar on what we take to be the rear shoulder. This omission probably indicates that that area was considered to be a part of the arm and shoulder, rather than the region of the neck and chest. Context: Artists of the mid- and late Ptolemaic Period (second to first centuries B>C.) employed a curious artistic convention, evident here, of omitting the broad collar on what we take to be the rear shoulder. This omission probably indicated that that area was considered to be a part of the arm and shoulder, rather than the region of the neck and chest. AMICA ID: AIC_.1920.259 AMICA Library Year: 1998 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998 AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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