AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF WITH AKHENATEN

NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, AMARNA PERIOD, CIRCA 1352-1336 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF WITH AKHENATEN
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, AMARNA PERIOD, CIRCA 1352-1336 B.C.
Sculpted in sunken relief with Akhenaten facing left worshipping the Aten, with characteristic elongated cranial features and neck, wearing the Khepresh crown with ribbons fluttering out behind, holding an incense burner with a falcon-headed terminal in front of him, with the Aten's rays surrounding the Pharaoh, one holding an ankh-cross to the king's mouth, with the remains of four columns of hieroglyphs above
8 1/3 x 8 7/8 in. (21.2 x 22.5 cm.)

Provenance

with Spink & Son Ltd, London.
Private collection, Rotterdam, acquired from the above March or July/August 1961; and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The relatively modest features of Akhenaten in the above relief would suggest a date later in his reign. For a comparison between early and later representations of him, cf. R. E. Freed, Y. J. Markowitz and S. H. D'Auria (eds), Pharoahs of the Sun, Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1999, p. 219, nos 51 and 52.

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