Talatat con parte de la escena de purificación de una dama real, aparentemente de la reina Kiya, amada esposa secundaria del rey Akhenaton.

Talatat with part of the purification scene of a royal lady, apparently from Queen Kiya, beloved secondary wife of King Akhenaten.

 

• XVIII Dinastía. Reinado de Amenhotep IV / Akhenatón

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• Material: piedra calcárea.

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• Conservación: New York. Metropolitan Museum. Gift of Noerbert Schimmel, 1985 (1985.328.8)

 

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Purification of a Royal Woman

Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353-1336 B.C.

(middle to late reign)

Painted limestone

Gift of Noerbert Schimmel, 1985 (1985.328.8)

 

This fragment is from a scene showing a royal woman undergoing a ritual of purification. The zigzag lines represent water being poured over her head from a jar held by the small hand at the upper left of the relief. The woman originally worwe a Nubian wig similar to the one carved on the canopic jar lid in the center of this gallery.

Later the wig was filled in with gypsum plaster, which was modeled and recurved into the elaborately dressed side lock of hair fallen out. Judging by the facial features and the original wig, the figure probably was intended to represent Queen Kiya, a beloved secondary wife of Akhenaten. This queen seems to have died several years before the end of the king´s reign, and her images were invariably altered to represent one of his older daughters, as on this relief.

 

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Texto: Juan Rodríguez Lázaro.

Foto: Juan Rodríguez Lázaro. Tomada el 6 de marzo del 2020.

 

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