AN 'AMARNA' SANDSTONE TALATAT LOW RELIEF SLAB depicting a bowing courtier, with red pigment on face and body, repaired, late Dynasty XVIII, early reign of Akhenaten, circa 1378-1375 B.C., from Karnak

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AN 'AMARNA' SANDSTONE TALATAT LOW RELIEF SLAB depicting a bowing courtier, with red pigment on face and body, repaired, late Dynasty XVIII, early reign of Akhenaten, circa 1378-1375 B.C., from Karnak
9¼ x 8¾in. (23.5 x 21.5cm.)

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Cf. New York, The Brooklyn Musuem, Akhenaten and Nefertiti, 1973, no. 41

To inaugurate his co-regency with his father Amenhotep III, Akhenaten exploited the sandstone quarries at Gebel el Silsila to build his great temple at Karnak dedicated to his god "Re-Herakhty in his aspect of the sun-light which is Aten"

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