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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALFRED E. MIRSKY, SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM OF THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF FRAGMENT

NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XVIII, LATE REIGN OF AMENHOTEP III, 1361-1353 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF FRAGMENT
NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XVIII, LATE REIGN OF AMENHOTEP III, 1361-1353 B.C.
Sculpted in sunk relief with an official seated on a high-backed chair, its sculpted legs with lion paw feet, his feet resting on a raised plinth, his bent arms projecting forward, grasping a kherep-scepter in his right hand, the left palm down, clad in a long elaborately-pleated garment, adorned with cuffed bracelets, a wesekh collar and the "gold of honor," wearing a double wig and short chin beard, his idealized features with an elongated rimmed eye beneath an arching brow, his fleshy lips pressed together, his prominent chin rounded, preserving the lower portion of a hieroglyphic inscription above, traces of polychromy throughout
17 1/8 in. (43.5 cm.) high

來源

Alfred E. Mirsky (1900-1974).

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拍品專文

Although all identifying inscriptions are now lost, the official on this relief must have been a favored subject of the pharaoh as he is shown wearing an array of adornments including a double strand of the "gold of honor." According to Müller and Thiem (p. 144 in Gold of the Pharaohs), "not only officers, but also high officials of the empire were awarded decorations by the pharaoh in recognition of their merits. They were given chains of annular gold beads and other jewellery, and those who had been awarded this 'gold of honour' would record the fact in their tombs."