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Lot Essay
Talatats, of uniform size and weight, were used to decorate the walls of Amarna temples. Once these buildings had been abandoned, many reliefs were repurposed as the fill and foundations for later 18th and 19th Dynasty buildings.
This relief depicts the head and shoulders of a royal attendant in profile to the right, wearing a short echeloned Nubian wig and a disk earring, with a hand carrying a cone-shaped offering behind. As both men and women of the Amarna period wore a similar type of wig and disk earrings, it is impossible to know who is represented on this fragment. For a relief depicting this wig type worn by men in a procession, see R. Freed, et al., Pharaohs of the Sun, no. 109. For a relief depicting a similar cone-shaped offering, see Inv. no. 1971.294 in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
This relief depicts the head and shoulders of a royal attendant in profile to the right, wearing a short echeloned Nubian wig and a disk earring, with a hand carrying a cone-shaped offering behind. As both men and women of the Amarna period wore a similar type of wig and disk earrings, it is impossible to know who is represented on this fragment. For a relief depicting this wig type worn by men in a procession, see R. Freed, et al., Pharaohs of the Sun, no. 109. For a relief depicting a similar cone-shaped offering, see Inv. no. 1971.294 in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.