Relief with a Procession Scene
Place made:el-Amarna, Egypt
Place found:
Culture: Egyptian
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18 (Amarna)
Date: ca. 1352-1336 B.C.
Medium: Painted limestone
Dimensions:
height: 9 in. (22.9 cm)
width: 21 in. (53.3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 91.80.157
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 procession of Egyptian soldiers and foreign nationals seems to have been depicted by the scene from which this fragment derives. The upper register shows, right to left; an archer wearing a leopard skin, perhaps a Nubian; an Egyptian soldier wearing a short kilt; and an Asiatic wearing a long, ankle-length garment. The lower register preserves two heads which face each other as though in conversation. That to the left displays the features of a Nubian warrior, that on the right, an Egyptian soldier. (Gallery Label, 8/2002).
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