Cleveland Museum of Art

Stele of Djedatumiufankh

Date

664–525 BCE

Medium

brown quartzite

Culture

Egypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26

Department

Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Were it not for the inscription in sunk relief and the man's name of a type that does not occur until the Third Intermediate Period, this stele could be easily mistaken for a work of the Old Kingdom, and for a long time it was. In fact, it was made 2,000 years later, in Dynasty 26, when artists turned to the past for inspiration.

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