Statuette of Imhotep
Ptolemaic Period (305–30 BCE)
- Medium
- Copper alloy
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- 12.5 × 3.8 × 6.5 cm (5 × 1 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Egypt
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Africa
- Credit line
- Gift of Henry H. Getty, Charles L. Hutchinson, and Norman W. Harris
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Imhotep was the architect who designed the Stepped Pyramid of King Djoser (Dynasty 3, c.2687 BCE). Fifteen hundred years later, Imhotep was deified and revered as a god of healing and wisdom. As a sign of his learning, he holds an unrolled papyrus on his lap.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
