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Votive Plaque of King Tanyidamani   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
Votive Plaque of King Tanyidamani
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English: Kingdom, was part of a commemorative monument to King Tanyidamani. One side depicts the ruler in royal costume with ram's-head earrings, an Egyptian crown, and a scepter in his hand. An image of the lion-headed war- and fertility-god Apedemak appears on the other side. The deity holds a bundle of sorghum and a scepter topped with a small seated lion. The inscriptions are in Meroitic script and name the king and the god.
Date circa 100 BC (Meroitic)
Medium dark red siltstone
Dimensions 18.5 × 9.5 × 1.7 cm (7.2 × 3.7 × 0.6 in)
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
22.258
Place of creation Temple of Apedemak in Meroë, Sudan
Object history
  • William MacGregor, Tamworth, Staffordshire
  • Sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, June 26-29 and July 4-6, 1922, no. 469
  • Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, 1922, by purchase
  • 1923: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
  • 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; The Hague Municipal Museum, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague. 1978-1979. Africa: The Art of a Continent. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. 1996. Egypt in Africa. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis. 1996.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, 1923
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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