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Akhenaten as sphinx


Akhenaten as a sphinx

Reign of Akhenaten, 1353–1336 B.C.
Limestone
Egyptian Curator’s Fund. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1964 64.1944

Akhenaten is represented as a sphinx, offering the name of Aten to the sun disk. At the upper right are more cartouches—the first two contain the name of Aten, the next two that of Akhenaten, and the last one that of Nefertiti.