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Talatat: Nefertiti Offers to the Aten
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| Title |
Talatat: Nefertiti Offers to the Aten |
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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 these 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. |
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| Date | -1353 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Painted sandstone | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Overall: 20.5 x 41.2 cm (8 1/16 x 16 1/4 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art |
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| Accession number |
1959.186 |
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| Place of creation | Egypt, Karnak, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep IV, 1353-1337 BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.186 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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