AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF

NEW KINGDOM, LATE DYNASTY XVIII, POST AMARNA PERIOD, 1335-1307 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF
New Kingdom, Late Dynasty XVIII, Post Amarna Period, 1335-1307 B.C.
Sculpted in sunk relief, preserving the upper torso and head of an official facing left, his fine facial features characterized by a sfumato eye, full lips and a slight double-chin, wearing a plain wig adorned with a fillet, and a broad collar, his festive costume with flaring sleeves, holding a fan and heka-scepter before him, inscribed with a single column of hieroglyphs for "...the royal scribe, the overseer of the two houses of silver..."
20 in. (50.8 cm.) wide

Provenance

Kofler Collection, Lucerne, 1950s.

Lot Essay

For similar facial features in the post-Amarna style compare the relief of Amenmose and Depet, no. 258 in Freed, et al., Pharaohs of the Sun, Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen. For the so-called sfumato eye, which characterizes the relief sculpture of the Amarna Period and continues thereafter into the early Ramesside Period, see pp. 18-23 in P. Gilbert, "Du la mystique amarnienne au sfumato praxitélien," in Chronique d'Egypte.

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