Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel, Auktion 46, April 28th,💃 1972, no.🐻 99, illus.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo,𝓡 inv. no. 1972.1♛6, acquired at the above sale (Christie's, New York, October 25th, 2016, no. 6, illus.)

acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Published

Otto Wittmann, ed., "Treasures for Toledo," in The Toledo Museum of Art News, vol. 19, 1976, p. 44, no. 2-3

Sandra Knudsen and P. Reich, Egypt in Toledo: The Ancient Egyptian Collection at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 2011, p. 76

Based solely on stylistic criteria the 1972 Basel auction catalogue entry suggests that the present relief probably originates from the Theban tomb of Pediamenopet/Petamenophis (T33), a massive and fascinating funerarᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚy complex explored in the 19th Century, sealed by Gaston Maspéro in 1900, and reopened by Claude Traunecker in 2005 for further exploration and study . Later publications of the present relief have adopted this identification.

In 1908 Jean Capart acquired a closely related relief fragment for the Brussels Museum (inv. no. E. 3057) and securely identified it as Pediamenopet himself based on a pre-1879 drawing of it made while still in situ in his tomb (Bulletin des Musées royaux des art décoratifs et industriels, September 1908, pp. 77-78, fig. 9, and J.-C. Balty, H. De Meulenaere, et al., eds., Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, Bruxelles. Antiquité, 1988, pp. 38-39). In 1912, another very similar example was bought by Philip J. Mosenthal from Dikran Kelekian in Paris in 1919, and sold at Anderson Art Galleries, New York, April 4th, 1925, no. 73; it is now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. 1977.217, where it is described as p෴robably from the tomb of Pediamenopet: ).