Details

LOT 0036

Egyptian Amarna Sandstone Relief Fragment

NEW KINGDOM, 18TH DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY B.C.

13 in. (5.11 kg, 33 cm).

Rectangular in plan with irregular left and lower edge; carved in low-relief in two registers with narrow border; lower register - plain with cream-white pigment; upper register – a combat or possibly post battle or tribute scene depicting two profile male heads with stern features, lentoid eye, strong mouth and chin, wearing brow-bands, probably Western Asiatics; with the leg of a kneeling(?) figure to the right; the reverse dressed but undecorated; two modern mounting holes to the long edge.

Provenance

Private collection, 1980s.
Private European collection, 2008.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12853-241665.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. Martin, G.T., The Memphite Tomb of Ḥoremḥeb Commander-in-Chief of Tut’ankhamūn I, London, 1989, pl. 114, for a chaotic scene of foreign delegations in audience with the Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

Footnotes

Scenes of captured enemies and especially foreign envoys in audience with the pharaoh depict figures in various humiliating, supplicatory poses, including prostration and kneeling.