A Fragmentary Carrying Chair Scene in Salt Lake City, Utah
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https://doi.org/10.12775/EtudTrav.30.006Keywords
carrying chair scene, ‘Sänftenleid’, Natasha Rambova, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Metjetji, Pepy IAbstract
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.Downloads
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2017-08-23
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BROVARSKI, Edward. A Fragmentary Carrying Chair Scene in Salt Lake City, Utah. Études et Travaux. Online. 23 August 2017. No. 30, pp. 155-160. [Accessed 16 August 2024]. DOI 10.12775/EtudTrav.30.006.
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