Deity (Forgery, modern)
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
collected early 20th century
Stone
Overall: 12 3/4 × 3 1/4 × 2 in. (32.4 × 8.2 × 5.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.25999
Geography
Place Made: Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
20th century
Object Name
Figure
Research Area
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Inscriptions
Label on back: “Assyrian Idol (ra) / Ambassador Page Collection.” Second label: “Isis / The moon goddess.”
Course History
ANTH 57, Origins of Inequality, Alan Covey, Winter 2013
REL 51, Virgin of Guadalupe, Elizabeth Perez, Winter 2013
REL 7, Dark Goddesses and Black Madonnas, Elizabeth Perez, Winter 2013
ANTH 57, Origins of Inequality, Alan Covey, Winter 2013
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
Critical Faculties: Teaching with the Hood's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-March 13, 2005.
Death and Dying: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 55, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 11-March 26, 1995.
The Age of the Marvelous, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 21-November 24, 1991; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 25-March 22, 1992; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, May 24-August 25, 1992; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, October 6, 1992-January 3, 1993, naturalia no. n154.
Provenance
Walter Hines Page Collection (1855-1918); to Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.
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