Antiquities, including property of the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, (New York: Sotheby's, 2007).
","citation":"Antiquities, including property of the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, (New York: Sotheby's, 2007).
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","citation":"Gifts to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery from A. Conger Goodyear: [Exhibition] Dec. 14-Jan. 6, 1963, (Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1963).
","date":1963,"id":3414,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/886619411"},{"boilertext":"Andrew C. Ritchie, Catalogue of the paintings and sculpture in the permanent collection, (Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1949).","citation":"Andrew C. Ritchie, Catalogue of the paintings and sculpture in the permanent collection, (Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1949)., p. 212; no. 223.","date":1949,"id":3416,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/901297882"},{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2013,\" Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 73 (2014): p. 37-64.","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2013,\" Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 73 (2014): p. 37-64., p. 42-43 (illus.)","date":2014,"id":2980,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/61312705"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[{"id":12860,"period":"Late Period","alphasort":"Late Period","begindate":-712,"enddate":-332,"displayperiod":"Late Period, ca. 712–332 BCE","displaydate":"ca. 712–332 BCE"},{"id":18159,"period":"25th Dynasty","alphasort":"Twenty-fifth Dynasty","begindate":-750,"enddate":-656,"displayperiod":"25th Dynasty","displaydate":null}],"department":"Ancient, Byzantine, and Islamic Art","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199315,"term":"African Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199316,"term":"Ancient Mediterranean Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"1000 B.C.-A.D 1","dateend":-650,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Bust of a woman as Isis, possibly the Adoratrice Shepenwepet II","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":null,"objectnumber":"2013-45","inscribed":null,"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"With the Joseph Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, by 1945; 1945 - 1946 with A. Conger Goodyear, Buffalo, NY; from 1946 - 2007with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; 2007 - 2009 with Phoenix Ancient Art, NY; purchased by an anonymous owner in 2009; back with Phoenix Ancient Art by 2013; purchased by the Museum in 2013.","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"\n\tThis bust portrays a woman, possibly the high priestess Shepenwepet II. Styling herself in the guise of a goddess such as Isis or Hathor, who were related in their association with motherhood and fertility, the figure attests to the indispensable role of women in Nubian society around the time of the 25th Dynasty. Yet the ongoing physical displacement of Nubian people and their cultural artifacts from present-day Egypt and Sudan continues to distort our understanding of Nubia, of its expansive date palm fields, shifting sand dunes, and the flourishing fava bean crops of Dongola, Sudan. The narratives that sustain Nubia, via oral traditions passed down through generations—mothers, sisters, unborn daughters—show that the healing wisdom and vast knowledge of Nubian women endure, though they risk fading someplace beyond our memories, and are a vital part of our collective heritage.\n
\n\n\tRahma Elsheikh, Class of 2025\n
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