Tilapia Fish Amulet
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
Dynasty 18 (1543-1292 BCE)
Faience
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Maribel Davis Pratt, Class of 1906W
162.4.29056
Geography/Culture
Africa, Northern Africa, Egypt
Period
2000-1000 BCE
Object Name
Personal Symbol: Amulet
Classification
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Course History
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
Exhibition History
Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth, Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12, 2011-August 13, 2012.
Publication History
Howard Farrant, The Pratt Collection of Egyptian Amulets, Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth Publications, 1964.
Howard Farrant, The Pratt Collection of Egyptian Amulets in the Baker Library at Dartmouth College, The Department of Art & Archaeology, Hanover, New Hampshire: Barker Library Press, 1943.
Provenance
Collected by Ralph Huntington Blanchard (1875-1936) proprietor of Blanchard’s Egyptian Museum, Sharia Kamel, Cairo, Egypt; purportedly "given" by R. H. Blanchard to Maribel (Mara-Belle) Davis Carroll (1886-1962) in Cairo, Egypt, about 1907-1910; (The donor was the wife of the journalist Raymond G. Carroll, 1878-1943, from 1907 until 1920, the same year she married Elon Graham Pratt, 1883-1964); in the collection of Maribel Davis Carroll Pratt, New York, New York, about 1907-1930; given to Dartmouth College, 1930 (at the suggestion of her second husband, Elon Graham Pratt, Class of 1906); catalogued by present collection, 1962.
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