The Powel Room was originally located on the second story of a house that still stands today at 244 South Third Street in Philadelphia. The room is furnished with superb examples of Philadelphia Rococo-style furniture of the type that the Powels might have owned.
to furniture and architectural commissions at Philadelphia’s most distinguished sites
1967, excavated under the direction of David Stronach and John Hansman, representing the British Institute of Persian Studies and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; acquired by the Museum in 1969, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 28 (2), p. 58. Stronach, David. 1990.
1933–34, excavated under the direction of J.M. Upton, W. Hauser and C.K. Wilkinson on behalf of The Persian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; acquired by the Museum in 1934, ceded in the division of finds
Iranian ceramics, exh. cat., Asia House, New York, cat. 16, p. 4, p. 121.
New York: Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs, 1992. p. 191.
Art of the Goldsmith in Classical Times as Illustrated in the Museum Collection. p.
As the centuries passed, the structures of the North Acropolis were built ever larger and more massive.
Sharer, Robert J., with Loa P. Traxler. The Ancient Maya. 6th ed.
Nexus Network Journal 14, no. 2, p. 232, fig. 3; p. 243, table 3.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Room was originally the living room of the summer residence of Frances W. Little, designed and built between 1912 and 1914 in Wayzata, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis.
Wright and his contemporaries envisioned low-lying structures that expanded across sites
Below the falcon, the name Horus name of Amenemhat I (wHm-msw.t) is written. The inscription above the falcon headed god reads: bHd.t(j) Di=f anx, (Horus of Edfu, may he give life). The remaining inscription probably accompanies the divine figure to the left
In The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 3, no. 12 (December), p. 220.
The wrapping with linen changed forever the shape of the human body and created a new being of divine character that was believed to be able to live forever.
of the Twenty-First Century, edited by Zahi Hawass and Lila Pinch Brock, vol. 1, p.
