Egypt artifacts,Pharaoh Akhenaten
10/31/2013 07:06:00 PM
Museum record;
JE 44865
This scene shows how the relationship was between the royal family,s members and shows the realism art which was clear during this period
Material;
Function;
This piece was used to be
closed by doors, as traces of pivots were found. It seems that it played the
role of a shrine for the cult of the royal family inside private houses.
Place of Discovery;
In 1912, borchardt discovered
this piece at Amarna.
Description ;
It is decorated by a cavetto
cornice and the cartouches surround the scene, which represents the royal
family for the first time in intimate and close family relations .
Before Akhenaten there were
what we can call accredited poses for the king seated or standing to majestic
way . This scene coinoeeds with the new trend of Atenism art . representing the
king in his everyday life, even sometimes eating .
Under the solar disk. Who
offers life and prosperity (,nh , w3s) this time to the royal couples. The king
and the queen are seated on stools with the traditional Sm3 Bwy symbol .
The royal couple is
represented with their usual appearance ,the king is playing with his eldest
daughter merytaten , while Nefertiti is having meketaten and Ankhesenpaten on
her lap.
In spite of the usual deformity , the scene is full of
vitality with both harmony and reality in the way that merytaten is trying to
graspthe earing from her father while meketaten is trying to attract the
attention of her mother who is watching her husband , meanwhile the young baby
, as usual with young children is trying to take the other earing from her older
sister , may be the sister is complaining to her mother.
It is noticeable that the princesses are traditionally represented as children , naked and side lock of youth and that’s clear in the case of merytaten .
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