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Head of a princess

Amarna, house P.47.2 Reign of Akhenaten, 1353 - 1336 B.C.
Quartzite;
h. 25 cm, w. 13 cm, d. 13 cm
Egyptian Museum, Cairo

The royal daughters are usually shown with distinctively elongated skulls. This exceptional quartzite head is one of several, in various stages of completion, recovered from the workshop of the sculptor Thutmose.
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