A Fragmentary Carrying Chair Scene in Salt Lake City, Utah

• Authors: Brovarski Edward
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the collections of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City is a fragmentary limestone relief of a chair carrying scene. The relief fragment in Salt Lake City was a gift to the museum from Natacha Rambova (née Shaugnessy), a dancer, spiritualist, Hollywood costume and set designer, and one-time wife of Rudolph Valentino, who developed an interest in ancient Egypt. Such chair carrying scenes in the Old Kingdom are generally accompanied by a porters’ ditty, a so-called Sänftenlied. The fragmentary scene in Salt Lake City is unusual in substituting commands to the porters for the ditty.

Keywords

EN

carrying chair scene; ‘Sänftenleid’; Natasha Rambova; Utah Museum of Fine Arts; Metjetji; Pepy I

• Publisher: Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Études et Travaux (Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: XXX
• Pages: 155-160

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Brovarski Edward

• Brookline, Massachusetts

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/EtudTrav.30.006