Stele of Djedatumiufankh (664–525 BCE): Art, History and Details

Stele of Djedatumiufankh (664–525 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Were it not for the inscription in sunk relief and the man's name of a type that does not occur until the Third Intermediate Period, this stele could be easily mistaken for a work of the Old Kingdom, and for a long time it was. In fact, it was made 2,000 years later, in Dynasty 26, when artists turned to the past for inspiration.

Object facts

• Title: Stele of Djedatumiufankh
• Date: 664–525 BCE
• Culture: Egypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: brown quartzite
• Dimensions: Overall: 27.5 x 25 cm (10 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
• Collection: Egypt - Late Period
• Department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
• Accession number: 1920.1977

Collection credit

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

Further reading listed by the museum

• R. H. “Old Kingdom Reliefs in the Egyptian Gallery.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 12, no. 9 (November 1925): 147-149.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.

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