AMARNA PERIOD, NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, REIGN OF AKHENATEN, CIRCA 1351-1334 B.C.

The fragment most likely formed the forearm of a figure in relief, possibly representing armlets or bracelets. Two cartouches present the name of the Aten, the Sun disc, in a n early version. It reads, ‘Long live Re-Harakhty who rejoices in the Land of Light', 'in his name as the light that is in the sun’, cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 21.9.4, for a limestone torso of Nefertiti with similar cartouches on the arms. When Akhenaten changed his name in his 9th regnal year, the way his god was addressed did too, keeping only Aten and Re.