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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: Wall Fragment from the Tomb of Thenti Title Type: preferred View: Full View Creation Start Date: -252 Creation End Date: -240 Creation Date: Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5, c. 2524 - 2400 Creation Place: Africa,North Africa,Egypt Object Type: Sculpture Materials and Techniques: Limestone Dimensions: H.: 53.3 cm (21 in.); W.: 83.8 cm (33 in.) Inscriptions: The '..judge and scribe Thent' appears sitting opposite his wife. Over table listed 'incense,..' below hopes for a 'thousand of beer, a thousand of clothing...' The hieroglyphic texts enumerate the offerings that were desired to sustain Thenti and his family in the afterlife. In addition to food, he requests clothing, linen, incense, green and black eye paint, and material used in the embalming process. AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1920.265 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Purchase Fund Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Subject Description: This relief fragment from the tomb of the judge and scribe Thenti shows the deceased and his wife sitting on either side of an offering table piled with reed-shaped loaves of bread. Thenti wears the classic knee-length kilt, the belt looped at his waist.His hair or wig is closely cropped and he is clean-shaven. His wife, whose name is now illegible, wears a tight sheath dress that stops just below her breasts. She is ornamented with a beaded necklace, a choker, and bracelets, and a heavy wig composed ofa series of braids. Their son, also named Thenti, stands behind his mother. A small girl, whom the hieroglypic text identifies as Thenti's granddaughter, stands anchored on her own small baseline. She sucks her finger in a gesture traditionally associated with small children in Egyptian art. This scene displays many features of the classic Egyptian artistic conventions for human representation. The small toes of the near foot, for example, are invisible, the feet being rendered identically. When both feet are visible as with the younger Thenti, the arch of each foot is visible, as if both were viewed from the inside. Only one of the woman's breasts is portrayed, for her torso is shown in combined profile and frontal views to express simultaneously its width and contour. AMICA ID: AIC_.1920.265 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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