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Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
G. Roeder, Amarna-Reliefs aus Hermopolis, Hildesheim, 1969, pl. 190, no. PC123.
A. Grimm et al., Das Geheimnis des golden Sarges : Echnaton und das Ende der Amarnazeit, Munich, 2001, no. 52.
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 40, no. R-131.
Between 1929 and 1939, the German excavations, led by the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, found numerous relief blocks in Hermopolis, in the foundations of a temple built in the time of Ramesses II. Originally from the temples of El-Amarna, twenty kilometres south of Hermopolis, these blocks had been dismantled and reused as fill within the new structure.
This example depicts a scene from the service area of the palace. On the lower register, two servants are shown, one carrying a sack and the other holding a stick. On the upper register there is a kitchen where men are represented baking bread. For a similar domestic relief, cf. J. D. Cooney, Amarna Reliefs from Hermopolis in American Collections, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1965, p. 73, no. 46.
G. Roeder, Amarna-Reliefs aus Hermopolis, Hildesheim, 1969, pl. 190, no. PC123.
A. Grimm et al., Das Geheimnis des golden Sarges : Echnaton und das Ende der Amarnazeit, Munich, 2001, no. 52.
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 40, no. R-131.
Between 1929 and 1939, the German excavations, led by the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, found numerous relief blocks in Hermopolis, in the foundations of a temple built in the time of Ramesses II. Originally from the temples of El-Amarna, twenty kilometres south of Hermopolis, these blocks had been dismantled and reused as fill within the new structure.
This example depicts a scene from the service area of the palace. On the lower register, two servants are shown, one carrying a sack and the other holding a stick. On the upper register there is a kitchen where men are represented baking bread. For a similar domestic relief, cf. J. D. Cooney, Amarna Reliefs from Hermopolis in American Collections, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1965, p. 73, no. 46.