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
Credit Line Purchased from William Flinders Petrie, 1893
Other Number ES837 - Original Number

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