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Collections: Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art




Reconstruction of a Model of a Temple Gateway

Reconstruction of a Model of a Temple Gateway. Produced for the Brooklyn Museum by Albert Fehrenbacher. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 66.228

This reconstruction was worked up from the early Nineteenth Dynasty base of a model temple gateway in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum (acc. no. 49.183) decorated with representations of King Sety I making offerings. The bottom of this model has been cast from the original and painted brown to match its quartzite stone. The statues, flagstaffs, pylon, and sidewalls, all of which were lost from the original, have been reconstructed to fit the depressions in the base. The result simulates the basic elements of a typical approach to a temple of the New Kingdom.

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