Brooklyn Museum: Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art: Model of a Votive Temple Gateway at Heliopolis (49.183)

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Model of a Votive Temple Gateway at Heliopolis (49.183)

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.

Medium: Plaster
Period: Modern
Dimensions: 40 5/16 x 34 7/16 x 44 1/8 in. (102.4 x 87.5 x 112 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Temples and Tombs, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 66.228
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Image: Front, 66.228_front.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Reproduction of Brooklyn. acc. no. 49.183, a brown quartzite base for a votive temple gateway at Heliopolis, dedicated by King Sety I, Dynasty XIX. To this plaster cast have been added reconstructed superstructure and additions as follows: two walls, two gate towers of pylon, two door leaves, two flag poles with streamers, two obelisks, four sphinxes, and two standing statues.

Collections: Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art: Model of a Votive Temple Gateway at Heliopolis (49.183)