Relief with a court scene
Place made:el-Amarna, Egypt
Place found:
Culture: Egyptian
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Date: ca. 1352-1336 B.C.
Medium: Painted limestone
Dimensions:
height: 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm)
width: 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 91.80.151
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.
Label Text
A large-scale, multi-figure court scene was probably the composition from which this fragment derives. On the upper register, two legs and feet overlap to show their owners lined up side by side, as is also true of the heads below. This artistic convention, often employed during the Amarna Period, was intended to suggest depth in compositions not based on optical perspective (a device first used consistently in ancient Greek art). Interestingly, the tall shields of the soldiers below break the register line. (Gallery Label, 8/2002).
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