Lot 83
83
AN EGYPTIAN 'AMARNA' BROWN QUARTZITE QUEEN NEFERTITI STATUE FRAGMENT
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AN EGYPTIAN 'AMARNA' BROWN QUARTZITE QUEEN NEFERTITI STATUE FRAGMENT

REIGN OF AKHENATEN, CIRCA 1350-1334 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN 'AMARNA' BROWN QUARTZITE QUEEN NEFERTITI STATUE FRAGMENT
REIGN OF AKHENATEN, CIRCA 1350-1334 B.C.
Inscribed as the Great Royal Wife, Nefernefruaten, Nefertiti, with her name in a cartouche, traces of her shallow pleated robe
6¾ in. (17 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired in Egypt between 1956-1958.
Sold to benefit The Hans Goedicke Foundation for Egyptology.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium Please note that the lots of Iranian origin are subject to U.S. trade restrictions which currently prohibit the import into the United States. Similar restrictions may apply in other countries.

Lot Essay

The woman we call Nefertiti ("the Beautiful One Is Here") would have been known to her contemporaries at Akhetaten [Tell el Amarna] as Nefernefruaten-Nefertiti (Nefernefruaten means "Perfect One of the Aten's Perfection"). She added Nefernefruaten even before her husband changed his name from Amenhotep to Akhenaten in the fifth year of his reign. (D. Arnold, The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1996, p. 9). Also, cf. C. Aldred, Akhenaten and Nefertiti, The Brooklyn Museum, 1973, p. 106, no. 20 for a torso of Queen Nefertiti exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (21.9.4).

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