AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF

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

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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF
NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, AMARNA PERIOD, CIRCA 1351-1334 B.C.
With a standing figure on the right, with their hand held towards offerings of food and drink, as well as a lotus flower


9 ½ in. (24.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Guenter Baumgaertl collection.
with Heinz Herzer, Munich.
Exhibited
Munich, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Das Geheimnis des goldenen Sarges : Echnaton und das Ende der Amarnazeit; 17 October 2001-6 January 2002.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Roeder, 1969, pl. 209, no. PC215.
Grimm, 2001, no. 47.
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 40, no. R-132.

A number of these blocks from dismantled temples of Akhenaten at al-Amarna were found within Ramesses III's pylon of the temple of Thoth at Hermopolis during the German excavations, led by the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, between 1929 and 1939.

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