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Talatat: Nefertiti Offers to the Aten
1353–1347 BCE
(1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten (1351–1334 BCE)
Overall: 20.5 x 41.2 cm (8 1/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1959.186
Location: 107 Egyptian
Did You Know?
Just in front of her nostril is the ankh or symbol of life, being given to her by Aten the sun, so that she may breathe in the god's gift of life.Description
The son of Amenhotep III, Akenaten, brought about the short-lived "monotheistic" revolution in Egyptian religion near the end of Dynasty 18. The young king constructed a temple complex to the Aten, the Sun Disk, at Karnak—where this relief originated—before he moved his capital to El Amarna. For reasons unknown, the figure of the Queen Nefertiti appears in these reliefs far more often than that of the king. Ironically, the Aten temples were dismantled to be used as foundations and fill for adaptations to the Great Temple of Amun, whom the Aten had briefly displaced.- -1959Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris, France, Sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art1959-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- "Annual Report for the Year 1959." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 6 (1960). p. 132 www.jstor.orgCleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter. Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963. p. 11, pl. 13 archive.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 4 archive.orgCleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967. pl. 4Cooney, John D. "Amarna Art in the Cleveland Museum." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 1 (1968). pp. 7-9, fig. 6 www.jstor.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 4 archive.orgPorter, Bertha, Rosalind Louisa Beaufort Moss, and Ethel W. Burney. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II, II. Oxford [etc.]: Clarendon Press, 1972. p. 40Kozloff, Arielle P. "Nefertiti, Beloved of the Living Disk." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 9 (1977). p. 293, fig. 9 www.jstor.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 15 archive.orgSmith, William Stevenson, William Kelly Simpson, and Cinamon Gerald. The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt. 1981. p. 309, fig. 299The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 4 archive.orgBerman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Mentioned: p. 241-242; Reproduced: p. 241
- Exposition Akhénaton. Musée d'art et d'histoire, Genéve 3, Switzerland (organizer) (October 16, 2008-February 1, 2009); Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy (February 26-June 14, 2009).
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