Tutankhamun in the 'King's house' at Amarna? Cairo SR 11575/20647

  • Lyla Pinch Brock (Contributor)

Dataset

Description

The painted mud-plaster mural Egyptian Museum Cairo S[pecial] R[egister] 11575/20647 showing the feet and lower legs of two figures, one large-scale seated person facing a much smaller standing person, represents a royal scene. Garments, furniture, decorative and architectural elements, as well as comparison with Amarna tomb scenes and the fragment Ashmolean Museum 1893.1-412670, which closely resembles the piece under discussion, lead to a proposed reconstruction of the scene on the Cairo fragment together with the probably adjoining fragment University College London No. 22 showing the stool's lattice work. After a note on precisely where at Amarna the Cairo fragment may come from, it is concluded that both the Cairo fragment and the Ashmolean fragment came from opposite walls of the same room in the "King's House" and, further, that, given the possibility that the Ashmolean fragment shows the royal couple with female children, the Cairo fragment may represent male children, in which case Tutankhamon would be a distinct candidate for to be identified with the small figure on it. Ay, however, is another possible candidate. (OEB)
Date made available19 Aug 2024
PublisherMacquarie University

Keywords

  • New Kingdom iconography
  • Amarna period
  • royal family - ancient Egypt
  • Tutankhamun

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