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Limestone Relief

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Title/s

Limestone Relief

Category

wall painting/relief

Name

relief

Description

A depiction of the Sed-festival of Akhenaten, fragment. Showing Akhenaten with worshippers. The arms of the Aten rain down on the king.

Production Notes

This scene shows the Sed festival, which was usually celebrated after 30 years of rule. Akhenaten's Sed festival (a renewal of the King's power) took place about 3 years into his reign at around the time he changed his name from Amenhotep to Akhenaten.

Field Collection

Karnak Egypt

Dimensions

depth 5.5 cm
length 23 cm
width 53 cm

Period

Eighteenth Dynasty
New Kingdom

Date

circa 1352 B.C. — 1336 B.C.

Provenance

bequeathed: Gayer-Anderson 1943 (Filtered for: Antiquities)

Documentation

  1. Aldred, C.
     (1959) The beginning of the el-'Amarna period (1959) [page: 25, 104]
    Source title: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (1959)
    [comments: ]
  2. Griffith, F. Ll.
     (1918) The jubilee of Akhenaton (1918) [page: ]
    Source title: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (1918)
    [comments: ]
  3. Griffith, F. Ll.
     (1922) Additional comment on 'The Mummy of Akhenaton' by Arthur Weigall (1922) [page: ]
    Source title: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (1922)
    [comments: p.199]
  4. Frankfort, H.
     Three Lectures by Henri Frankfort 1897-1954 [page: 157]
    Source title: Journal of Warburg and Courtlands Institute (1958)
    [comments: pl.12c]
  5. Aldred, C.
     Akhenaten [page: 128]
    [comments: pl.49]
  6. Aldred, Cyril
     (1973) Akhenaten and Nefertiti (1973) [page: 97]
    [comments: ]
  7. Gohary, J.
     (1992) Akhenaten's Sed-festival at Karnak , London and New York (1992) London and New York [page: ]
    [comments: ]
  8. (1995) [page: 60]
    [comments: ]
  9. Manniche, L.
     (1994) L'art Egyptien : Flammarion (1994) : Flammarion [page: 173]
    [comments: with plate]
  10. Porter, Bertha
    Moss, Rosalind
    Burney, Ethel W.
     Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs and paintings. Vol.2, Theban temples [page: 296]
    [comments: 2nd edition]
  11. Freed, Rita E.
    Markowitz, Yvonne J.
    D'Auria, Sue H.
     (2000) Farao's van de Zon: Achnaton, Nefertiti, Toetanchamon , Leiden : Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (2000) Leiden: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden [page: 56, 208-9]
    [comments: ]
  12. Weigall, A.
     (1922) The mummy of Akhenaton (1922) [page: 195]
    Source title: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (1922)
    [comments: ]
  13. Murray, M.A.
     The Splendour That Was Egypt [page: 198]
    [comments: pl. 70 [2]]
  14. Reeves, C.N.
     (2001) Akhenaten : Egypt's false prophet , London : Thames & Hudson (2001) London: Thames & Hudson [page: 96-97]

Material/s

limestone

Accession Number

E.GA.2300.1943 (Antiquities)
(Reference Number: 56692; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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