“This piece spoke to me when I realized, you don’t need a single written word, three thousand years later, we can understand the same language.”
Curator Diana Craig Patch on the statuette cult image of the god Ptah (ca. 945–600 BCE).
Idolized
Diana Craig Patch
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Diana Craig Patch
Lila Acheson Wallace Curator in Charge, Department of Egyptian Art
Lila Acheson Wallace Curator in Charge, Department of Egyptian Art
Photography by Karin L. Willis
Art Mentioned
ca. 945–600 BCE
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