Funerary jewelry

Funerary jewelry

Funerary jewelry

Former Title:Ankh Bell
Culture: Egyptian
Date: 1336-1327 B.C.E.
Medium: Gold
Dimensions:
Overall: 1/2 inches (1.27 cm)
Credit Line: Purchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number: 67-21/4
On view
Current Location: G, 103
In Collection(s)
Exhibition History

Lindsley Hall exhibition, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR, July 12-October 1, 1978.

Provenance

Found in Tomb of Tutankhamun, Egypt, by Howard Carter (1874-1939), ca. 1922;

 

Probably gifted by Carter to his surgeon, Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan (1865-1936), Leeds, Yorkshire, England, by 1936 [1];

 

Probably by descent to Moynihan’s son, Patrick Berkeley Moynihan, 2nd Baron Moynihan (1906-1965), 1936-1965;

 

Probably by descent to his son, Antony Patrick Andrew Cairne Berkeley Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan (1936-1991), 1965-1967;

 

Purchased from Moynihan, through Spink and Sons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1967.

 

NOTES:

 

[1] See Marc Gabolde, Toutankhamon (Paris: Pygmalion, 2015), 497-499.

Published References

Thomas Hoving, Tutankhamun—the Untold Story (New York, 1978), 356.

 

Rolf Kraus, “Einige Kleinefunde mit Namen von Amarnasherrschern,” Chronique d’ Égypte 65 (1990): 209, fig. 2, 213n3.

 

Marc Gabolde, Toutankhamon (Paris: Pygmalion, 2015), 507, no. 6, fig. 231.


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