Relief

E1007E

From: Egypt | El-Amarna

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E1007E
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | El-Amarna
Period Eighteenth Dynasty | New Kingdom
Date Made 1372-1354 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Limestone
Iconography Woman | Legs
Description

Fragment of a relief, lower part of a female.The royal woman wears a sheer pleated linen gown. Traces of a base or a platform under her feet indicate that the figure may have been a statue in a shrine. The curved lines are characteristic of the more naturalistic style artists used during the later parts of the Amarna period.

Height 24.13 cm
Length 27.94 cm
Width 10.16 cm
Depth 0 cm
Credit Line Purchased from William Flinders Petrie, 1893
Other Number ES837 - Original Number

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