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Statuette Base of Ia-Ib

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

MEDIUM Wood
  • Place Made: Thebes, Egypt
  • DYNASTY Dynasty 12
    PERIOD Middle Kingdom
    DIMENSIONS 4 7/16 x 2 3/8 x 1 1/8 in. (11.2 x 6.1 x 2.9 cm)  (show scale)
    INSCRIPTIONS "Offerings which the king gives to Ptah-Sokar. May he give invocation offerings, meat and fowl and linen to the Ka of the royal servant Ia-ib, true of voice"
    ACCESSION NUMBER 16.580.196
    CREDIT LINE Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour
    CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Oblong wooden base of a statuette. James, Corpus, p. 42 "This piece was purchased by Wilbour in Qurna in Western Thebes, in 1888; it is mentioned in his notebook 2-I 18. the citation in PM, loc. cit., give as Ia-ib's title "royal hearld (?), but the sign in question seems certainly to be Hm not wHm. The title 'servant of the king is not common."
    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
    CAPTION Statuette Base of Ia-Ib. Wood, 4 7/16 x 2 3/8 x 1 1/8 in. (11.2 x 6.1 x 2.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.580.196. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.580.196_view1.jpg)
    IMAGE overall, CUR.16.580.196_view1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2014
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     <em>Statuette Base of Ia-Ib</em>. Wood, 4 7/16 x 2 3/8 x 1 1/8 in. (11.2 x 6.1 x 2.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.580.196. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.580.196_view1.jpg)