Nome Gods Bearing Offerings (c. 1391–1353 BCE): Art, History and Details

Nome Gods Bearing Offerings (c. 1391–1353 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

These blocks from a temple wall show four figures identified as nomes, or provinces, of ancient Egypt. Carrying trays heaped with offerings and leading sacrificial animals, they personify the bounty of the land that they bring to the god who stood in the upper register, facing a figure of the king, Amenhotep III. These blocks may be from Amenhotep III's temple, dedicated to the god Horus.

Object facts

• Title: Nome Gods Bearing Offerings
• Date: c. 1391–1353 BCE
• Culture: Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BCE)
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: painted limestone
• Dimensions: Overall: 66 x 133 cm (26 x 52 3/8 in.)
• Collection: Egypt - New Kingdom
• Department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
• Accession number: 1961.205

A detail from the museum

Another block from the same temple wall was acquired 15 years later by the museum.

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin 49, no. 6 (June 1962): color cover.
• Carter, Martha L. Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963, 8. pl. 10.
• Cleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter. Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963.

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