Relief with Offerings in the Great Temple of Aten
Culture: Egyptian
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18 (Amarna)
Date: ca. 1352-1336 B.C.
Place made:el-Amarna, Egypt
Place found:
Medium: Painted limestone
Dimensions:
height: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
width: 22 in. (55.9 cm)
depth: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 91.80.162
Provenance: Found at Hermopolis, 1930s or 40s. With Khawam Brothers, Cairo, 1940s [note 1]; with Khawam Brothers/Galerie Khepri, Paris, 1977. With Jack Ogden, London, by 1987; sold by Jack Ogden to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1988; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1991.
Note 1: according to correspondence with Bertrand Khawam in 2022-2023.
Exhibition History: “All that the Sun’s Disk Encircles: Amarna Reliefs from Texas Collections,” San Antonio Museum of Art, November 18, 1990—February 28, 1991
Published References
G. Roeder, Amarna-Reliefs aus Hermopolis (Hildesheim, 1969), 204, 220, 222, 223, 224, 225, 227, 232, 233, PC 148, pl. 192
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J. Powers and J. Johnston, eds., San Antonio Museum of Art: Guide to the Collection (San Antonio: San Antonio Museum of Art, 2012), 26.
Label Text
A wide variety of divine offerings are shown on this relief fragment, including trussed cattle, wine and oil vessels, and different breads and cakes. The scene is perhaps to be identified as taking place within the courtyard of the Great Temple of the Aten at Akhetaten (Amarna). (Gerry D. Scott, III, 2002).
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