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Paint Box of Vizier Amenemope
c. 1427–1401 BCE
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This paint box still preserves its original cakes of pigment: one cake each of red (red ocher), blue (Egyptian blue), green (a mixture of Egyptian blue, yellow ocher, and orpiment) and two of black (carbon black, from charcoal). It belonged to Amenemope, who was vizier, or prime minister, under Amenhotep II. Amenemope probably used his paint box for recreation.
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- Title: Paint Box of Vizier Amenemope
- Date Created: c. 1427–1401 BCE
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 2.2 x 21 x 3.6 cm (7/8 x 8 1/4 x 1 7/16 in.)
- Provenance: Mohammed Mohasseb and Son, Luxor, sold to Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent, (Lucy Olcott Perkins, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Implements
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1914.680
- Medium: boxwood with inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue
- Fun Fact: Painting was a popular and time-honored pastime among the upper classes in Egypt.
- Department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Culture: Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep II (1425–1400 BCE)
- Credit Line: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Collection: Egypt - New Kingdom
- Accession Number: 1914.680
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