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Nenkhefetka and his wife Nefershemes, ca. 2400–2250 BC., Limestone and pgment. Courtesy of ISAC (formerly Oriental Istitute)
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Faces of Ancient Egypt: Ancient Egyptian Art from the Oriental Institute Museum

September 10, 1996 – March 9, 1997

A collaborative exhibition with the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute during its renovation and expansion, this show highlighted the Institute’s important Egyptian holdings by examining the role of the human figure within the cultural and religious life of Egyptian civilization.

The idealized, abstract quality of the forty-five objects displayed, including sculpture, paintings, and several funerary masks, demonstrated the Egyptian belief that figurative representation was not only the physical record of an individual, but his/her link to immortality.

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