Art Institute of Chicago
Ostracon with a Drawing of a King
Egyptian
- Date
- New Kingdom, mid-Dynasty 19–Dynasty 20, about 1213–1069 BCE
- Medium
- Limestone and pigment
- Culture
- Egypt
- Department
- Arts of Africa
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Egyptian artists often made sketches on flakes of limestone, called ostraca. This example shows how the preliminary outline was done in red pigment, then corrected, and finished in black. Often these sketches were the work of two craftsmen, a draftsman and a master artist. This ostracon shows a king wearing a crown with streamers and a pleated kilt. He leans on a standard topped with the ram-headed emblem of the god Amun.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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