Head of a God
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
Late Period, Dynasty 30, 4th century BCE
Granodiorite
Overall: 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Mary C. Rockefeller, Class of 1930W, and her son, Rodman C. Rockefeller, Class of 1954
S.999.52
Geography
Place Made: Possibly from Tjebunetjer, also known as Sebennytos (Greek), Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Ancient Egypt
Africa
On view
Course History
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
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
CLST 12.03, ANTH 13.01, Who Owns the Past?, Julie Hruby and Jesse Casana, Winter 2020
ITAL 3.01, Introductory Italian 3, Damiano Benvegnu, Winter 2020
SART 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2020
COCO 26.01, What's in Your Toolbox?, Heidi Denzel and Mokhtar Bouba, Fall 2022
COCO 26.01, What's in Your Toolbox?, Heidi Denzel and Mokhtar Bouba, Fall 2022
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 36, The Eye of the Beheld, Caitlin Roberts, Class of 2008, Student Programming Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 29-March 19, 2007.
Ancient and Premodern Global Cultures, Gene Y. Kim Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019.
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.
Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 13, 2000-February 6, 2005.
Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 12, 2013-April 29, 2014.
Glimpses of Ancient Life, Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art's Collection of Ancient Art, Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 19, 2000.
Global Cultures at the Hood: Ancient to Premodern, Gene Y. Kim Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26. 2019.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, "The African Collection at the Hood Museum of Art," African Arts, Volume XXXVII, No. 2, Los Angeles: African Studies Center, University of California, 2004, ill. p. 20.
Caitlin Roberts, A Space for Dialogue 36, The Eye of the Beheld, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Mueum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2007, ill. p.1.
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 73, ill. plate no. 4.
Provenance
Collected by Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (1841-1915), Cairo or Luxor, Egypt [in consultation with Albert M. Lythgoe (1868-1934), Curator of Egyptian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York], about 1913; to his daughter, Abigail "Abby" Aldrich (Mrs. John D., Jr.) Rockefeller (1874-1948), about 1915; to her son, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908-1979), about 1948; to his first wife, Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller (1907-1999), about 1961; given to present collection from the Estate of Mary Clark Rockefeller, through her son Rodman Clark Rockefeller (1932-2000), 1999.
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