Collections: Items Tagged "inscriptions"

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    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
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    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Kohl Jar with Incised Figures

The images decorating the surface of this kohl jar resemble figures on Hyksos scarabs. This object was probably made in Thebes during the Se...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Mother with Child (Lupingu lwa Cibola)

    This ethereal and delicate Lulua maternity figure is considered one of the masterpieces of African art. When a woman lost children through m...

     

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    Found 45 Items Tagged "inscriptions"

    Headrest with Two Images of the God BesShabty Box of AmunemhatRitual KnifeCanopic Jar and Lid (Depicting a Baboon)Kneeling Figure of HarbesFragmentary Ointment Jar Inscribed for UnasJug (Mashraba) with Human-Headed Inscription and Zodiac SignsRelief of Offering TableCanopic Jar and Lid (Depicting a Human)Offering Stand of Irukaptah with BowlUshabti of PsamtekUshabti of the Lady of the House YuiBlock Statue of NesthothHeart Scarab with Scene of the Goddess Ma`at and a PhoenixShawabtiNes-Peka-Shuti Relief: Fragmentary BlockStela of Steward PtahemsaiStamp Seal of Meru the Answerer of Horus [the King]
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