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

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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, REIGN OF AKHENATEN, CIRCA 1353-1335 B.C.
Sculpted in sunk relief, preserving the bust of a princess facing left, her skull shaved but for the multi-strand side-lock, her face with a narrow eye, a rounded nose, full lips and a drooping chin, her right arm projecting forward, the hand of her sister preserved to the right, holding a sistrum
9¼ in. (23.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Charles Gillet (1879-1972), Lausanne; thence by descent to his son, Renaud Gillet (1913-2001), Paris.

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Lot Essay

The complete scene to which this relief belonged must have shown the Royal family worshipping the Aten. For a fragment of a boundary stela preserving two princesses, each with a sistrum, standing behind Nefertiti (only partially preserved) see no. 38 in R. Freed, et al., Pharaohs of the Sun, Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen. For another fragment preserving the bust of a princess tentatively identified as Meretaten, see no. 27 in H.S.T. Reed et al., Ancient Art in the Virginia Museum.

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