The Location of Perneb’s Tomb For millennia, the vast cemetery of Saqqara (about twenty-five miles south of Cairo) was the burial ground for Memphis, ancient Egypt’s capital. In an especially crowded section, just north of the enclosure around King Djoser’s Step Pyramid at Saqqara (built during Dynasty 3, ca
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From Kourion, Cyprus (Cesnola, Atlas III, pl. XLIV, 4) Before 1874, excavated by Luigi Palma di Cesnola at Kourion, Cyprus; until 1874, collection of L.P. di Cesnola; acquired in 1874, purchased from L
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From the Public Life of Christ window, choir of the castle chapel (the Schlosskapelle) at Ebreichsdorf, south of Vienna.; Roy Grosvenor Thomas 1886–1952, New York (by 1923) ; George A. Douglass, Sr., Greenwich, CT
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Length of body: 18 7/8 in. (47.9 cm)Lenght of string: 26 4/3 in. (68 cm)Length of lower bouts: 10 5/8 in. (26.9 cm)Length of middle bouts: 7 1/2 in. (18.9 cm)Length of upper bouts: 8 4/3 in
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Excavated by Sayyid Pasha Khashaba (Said Bey), May 1910. Acquired by Khashaba in the division of finds. In Cairo with Maurice Nahman, November 1910. Purchased from Nahman by Dikran G. Kelekian, 1911. Purchased from Kelekian, 1917
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Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on mount, verso C: „Steichen [underlined] // Platinum [underlined]“; „Steichen, Eduard J // The Flat Iron // Platinum Gum// (Blue Print) // ‚About the best print of subject‘ (AS) // Property of Alfred Stieglitz value $125“; numbers inscribed in pencil, verso BC: “35 [circled]; 38 [underlined]; 18Aâ€�
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[Until 1938, with Michel Roussos, Athens and Paris]; [1938, acquired by Joseph Brummer, purchased from M. Roussos in Paris]; [until December 1938, with Joseph Brummer, New York (P15133)]; acquired in 1938, purchased from Joseph Brummer
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Inscription: (on each corner and in center): A [image of a knot] E [reversed] (unidentified)(on red horn): W [backwards E] D H N O H N M E H O M (too fragmentary for interpretation)
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Inscription: Inside soundhole, circular inscription: „Manufactured by the [prince of the] state of Lu in the year guiyou of the Chongzhen reign of the great Ming; #18.“Marking: 1) (on back at head) the title „honghe“(Capital Peace); 2) (on back below title) the seal „Luguo shi quan“ (Heirloom of the Lu State); 3) (below seal) 22-character poem that reads: The moonlight is being reflected by the river Yangtze, A light breeze is blowing over clear dewdrops, Only in a tranquil place Can one comprehend the feeling of eternity
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