Akhenaten Makes an Offering to the Aten
Culture: Egyptian
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Date: ca. 1352-1336 B.C.
Medium: Limestone
Dimensions:
8 7/8 × 17 11/16 in. (22.5 × 45 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 86.99.1
Provenance: found at Hermopolis, 1930s or 40s. With Khawam Brothers, Cairo, 1940s [note 1]; with Khawam Brothers/Galerie Khepri, Paris, 1977. With Safani Gallery, New York, by 1984; sold by Safani Gallery, New York, to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
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, Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Hermopolis-Expedition in Hermopolis 1929-1939, vol. 2 (Hildesheim, 1969), PC 200.
Label Text
The distinctive figures of Akhenaten, with fleshy abdomen, heavy buttocks and thighs, and spindly calves is shown standing between two offering stands heaped with lotus blossoms and buds in this fragmentary relief. The pleats and sash of the king's kilt have been carved with special attention to detail. The slight curvature of this relief indicates that it probably comes from a large decorated column that once stood in the Aten Temple at Amarna. (Gallery Label, 8/2002).
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