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ID: 700000531
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000531
Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1 2 3 4
Striding Thoth (sculpture (visual works); unknown Ancient Egyptian; 332–330 BCE; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 26.7.860; )
Note: Thoth, the god of writing, accounting and all things intellectual, was associated with two animals: the ibis and the baboon. His images either show him represented by these animals or they combine a human body with an ibis head as in this piece of shiny blue faience.
Titles:
Striding Thoth (preferred,C,U,D,RP,English-P,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
sculpture (visual works) [300047090] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:
sculptures (preferred)

Creation Date: 332–330 BCE

Creator Display:
unknown Ancient Egyptian [preferred,VP]
sculptor unknown Ancient Egyptian (Ancient Egyptian cultural designation) [500202838]
Locations:
Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)
Repository Numbers: 26.7.860
Credit Line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926
Other: Creation: Egypt [7014986] Africa (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Display Materials: faience
faience (ancient objects) [300265177]
.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Dimensions: H. 14.1 cm (5 9/16 in.); W. 3.6 cm (1 7/16 in.); D. 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.)
Cultures:
Ancient Egyptian (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:
Ptolemaic [300020432] (preferred,N/A)
.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Early Western World, Mediterranean (Early Western World), Egyptian (ancient))

General Subject:
religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:
Thoth [901000159]
.....((Egyptian characters, Egyptian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Provenance: Formerly Carnarvon Collection, purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Almina, Countess of Carnarvon, 1926. Previously purchased by Lord Carnarvon at the Macgregor sale, Sotheby's London, 1922.
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: carvings and sculptures
Sources and Contributors:
Striding Thoth........ [VP]
........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 22 May 2012
Subject: ....... [VP]
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 9 March 2018
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