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18:18 12/25/2008
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shelley09:44 12/24/2008
This scene has nothing to do with Akhenaten, the tag should be removed.
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Tomb Relief Fragment
- Medium: Limestone
- Place Found: Thebes, Egypt
- Dates: ca. 670-650 B.C.E.
- Dynasty: late XXV Dynasty-early XXVI Dynasty
- Period: late Third Intermediate Period-early Late Period
- Dimensions: 9 7/16 x 11 5/16 in. (23.9 x 28.7 cm)
- Collections: Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art
- Museum Location:
This item is on view in Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Galleries, 3rd Floor - Accession Number: 48.74
- Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- Image: Overall, 48.74_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
The themes of a woman pulling a thorn from another's foot and a woman, with a baby, stacking fruit are rather rare in Egyptian art. It is probable, therefore, that the unusual small details found in the fourteenth-century-B.C. Theban tomb painting (from the tomb of a man named Menena) illustrated here were the inspiration for this seventh¬century-B.C. relief. In copying these details, the artist has made them major scenes and rendered them far more elegantly.
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