Fragment
of a column drum featuring the royal family worshiping
Amarna,
found at Hermopolis
Reign of Akhenaten, 1353 - 1336 B.C.
Limestone;
h. 22.4 cm,
w. 52.5 cm,
d. 6.1 cm
Mary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1967
67.637
The
figure of Nefertiti seen here shows how an artist carving a relief
would render the female body draped in a sheer, pleated garment.
