NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, REIGN OF TUTHMOSIS III, 1479-1425 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER JAR FOR THE PHARAOH TUTHMOSIS III
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, REIGN OF TUTHMOSIS III, 1479-1425 B.C.
The piriform body on a flat base, with a conical neck, flaring to a wide disk rim, with two columns of hieroglyphs within an incised rectangular box centered on the body, reading: "The beautiful god Men-kheper-Re, Son of Re Thutmose-Nefer-Kheper, given life forever/eternally;" the interior preserving extensive solidified remains of unguents
8¼ in. (20.9 cm.) high

Provenance

Said to be from The Tomb of Three Foreign Wives, Qurna.
A.R. Callender, archeologist working with Howard Carter in Luxor, 1919.
Edward S. Harkness, New York, Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Minneapolis Institute of Art, gifted by Harkness in 1927 (accession no. 27.12.8).
A Midwestern Museum; Egyptian and Classical Antiquities, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 May 1958, lot 105.
The Lannan Foundation.
The Lannan Foundation; Important Classical, Egyptian and Western Asiatic Antiquities, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 19 May 1979, lot 260.
Charles Pankow (d. 2004), San Francisco.
The Charles Pankow Collection of Egyptian Art; Sotheby's, New York, 8 December 2004, lot 50.

Literature

"A Notable Gift of Egyptian Antiquities," in Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, vol. XVII, no. 5, 4 February 1928, pp. 22, 24, and 25.
H.E. Winlock, The Treasure of Three Egyptian Princesses, New York, 1948, pp. 11-12 and 54.
H. Betz, Egyptian Antiquities from the Charles Pankow Collection, San Francisco, 1981, p. 33.
C. Lilyquist, Egyptian Stone Vessels: Kian through Tuthmosis IV, New York, 1995, p. 40, no. 85.
C. Lilyquist, The Tomb of Three Foreign Wives of Tuthmosis III, New York, 2003, p. 142, no. 59, and p. 207, fig. 128a-c.

Exhibited

San Francisco, Van Doren Gallery and Elsewhere, 1981.

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Lot Essay

The three foreign wives of the Pharaoh Tuthmosis III, Manuwai, Manhata and Maruta, were buried in a lavishly furnished rock-cut tomb in Wady Gabbanat el-Qurud, south of the main necropoli of Thebes. Two of their names are West Semitic in origin, all three were given the title of King's Wife, but they were likely only minor members of the royal harem. Their tomb was discovered by local villagers in August 1916. Most of the objects from the tomb were eventually purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Edward S. Harkness, once one of the richest men in the United States and a trustee of the MET, acquired this alabaster jar from A.R. Callender in 1919, and later gifted it, together with other Egyptian antiquities, to the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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