Talatat: Portrait of Nefertiti

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Talatat: Portrait of Nefertiti

Date
c. 1353–1347 BCE
Medium
painted sandstone
Culture
Egypt, Karnak, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten (1351–1334 BCE)
Department
Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
148794

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The son of Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, 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—from which this relief comes—before he moved his capital to El Armana. For reasons yet 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 anciently to be used as foundations and fill for additions to the Great Temple of Amun, whom the Aten had briefly displaced. Even though all we see is a fragment of the head we know it is Nefertiti by the double uraeus or serpent symbol on the headband, which was only worn by the queen.

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Credit line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance
-1976: Mrs. Paul and Milton Girod Mallon, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1976-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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