The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Relief with foreign musicians

Relief with foreign musicians

Period:: New Kingdom, Amarna Period
Dynasty:: Dynasty 18
Reign:: reign of Akhenaten
Date:: ca. 1353–1336 B.C.
Geography:: Country of Origin Egypt, Middle Egypt, el-Amarna (Akhetaten); inc. el-Hagg Qandil
Medium:: Limestone, paint (mostly modern)
Dimensions:: h. 22.8 cm (9 in); w. 25.4 cm (10 in)
Credit Line:: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift and Louis V. Bell Fund, 1991
Accession Number:: 1991.240.13

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 131

Provenance

Purchased from Atlantis Antiquities Ltd., New York, 1991.The relief is understood to have been previously with Jack Ogden, London. Previously published by G. Roeder, Amarna-Reliefs aus Hermopolis (1969), pl. 179 and 208 PC (Private Collection) 66 and 251, subsequently joined.
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What
Sculpture (24,350)

Limestone (4,529)

Reliefs (3,153)
Where
Africa (33,501)

Egypt (29,889)

Upper Egypt (13,662)

Amarna (948)
When
2000-1000 B.C. (18,709)
In the Museum
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