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Adoration of the king

Adoration of the king

Limestone
Reign of Akhenaten, 1353–1336 B.C.
Seth K. Sweetser Fund.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
1962 62.1168

Overseer of Works User-Seth
kneels in adoration before the
name of Akhenaten, Aten’s
representative on earth; the
hieroglyphs above him state that
he is "praising the living Aten."
This carved relief was probably
part of the doorframe of
User-Seth’s house.