Furniture Inlay
Culture: Egyptian
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Date: ca. 1390-1352 B.C.
Place made:Egypt
Medium: Wood
Dimensions:
8 1/8 × 7/8 in. (20.6 × 2.2 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, bequest of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 2005.1.29
Inscribed: Inscribed in sunk relief: The good god, whose sword smites every foreign land, Neb-Maat-Re, the son of Re (Amenhotep III), given life forever
One column of text read right to left:
nfr-nTr ptpt xAswt nbt xpS nb-mAat-ra sA-ra [imn Htp(.w) HqA wAst] di anx Dt
The good god, whose sword smites every foreign land, Neb-Maat-Ra, the son of Ra [Amenhotep, Ruler of Thebes (Amenhotep III)], given life forever
[trans. S. Schellinger, 2018]
Provenance: sold by Charles Ede, Ltd., London, to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1992; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by bequest to San Antonio Museum of Art, 2005
Published References
Charles Ede Ltd., "Writing and Lettering in Antiquity XV," (London, 1992), no. 22.
Label Text
The inscription on this inlay, which once enhanced a piece of furniture, translates, “The good god, whose sword smites every foreign land, Neb-maat-re, the son of Re, [Amenhotep], given life forever.” The fact that the king’s birth name, Amenhotep, has been erased demonstrates that the piece of furniture remained in use during his son Akhenaten’s reign. Akhenaten made a concerted attempt to erase all mention of the state god Amen.
(Gerry Scott, 2002)
(Gerry Scott, 2002)
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