NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, REIGN OF AKHENATEN, CIRCA 1353-1335 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE ‘TALATAT’ RELIEF FRAGMENT
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, REIGN OF AKHENATEN, CIRCA 1353-1335 B.C.
Sculpted in sunk relief with the lower section of two cartouches, the Throne name of Akhenaten on the left ’[Neferkheperure] Waenre’, ‘Beautiful are the representations of Re, the One of Re’, and on the right reading ‘the Horizon of the Aten in Akhet Aten’, the name of the city of Amarna
20 ½ in. (52 cm.) long

Provenance

Hermopolis, El Ashmunein, Egypt.
Private collection, US, acquired prior to 1969.
Alex Biancardi collection, Australia.
Swiss art market.
Private collection, Germany.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
G. Roeder, Amarna-Reliefs aus Hermopolis, Hildesheim, 1969, p. 166, pl. 195.

Between 1929 and 1939, the German excavations, led by the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, found numerous talatat in Hermopolis, 20 km north of Amarna, in the foundations of a temple built in the time of Ramesses II. More than 1,200 blocks were discovered, originally from the temples of Tel el-Amarna, and used as inexpensive material. The name of the city of Amarna, ‘the Horizon of Aten’, is found next to the cartouche of Akhenaten in several instances on limestone lintels, as well as the name of Nefertiti further to the left.

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