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Roundel with Offering Scene (Fragment from the Menit of Harsiese) (detail). Third Intermediate Period-Late Period, 8th–6th century B.C. Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (23733)
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Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples
October 16, 2007–February 18, 2008
Egyptian Art galleries, 1st floor
Throughout their long history, the ancient Egyptians used copper, bronze, gold, and silver to create lustrous, graceful statuary. Most characteristically, these works stood at the crux of their interactions with their gods, from ritual dramas that took place within the temples and chapels that dotted the landscape, to the festival processions through the towns and countryside that were thronged by believers. This important loan exhibition, the first to focus on the art and significance of Egyptian metal statuary, as well as the influences acting upon it, presents some 70 superb statues and statuettes created in precious metals and copper alloys over more than two millennia, including rare examples from the Third Intermediate Period (1070–664 B.C.), the apogee of Egyptian metalwork.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
The exhibition is made possible by Orascom Hotels and Development.
The catalogue is made possible by The Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families.
Additional support is provided by the Lila Acheson Wallace Fund.
The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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