Statuette of seated Akhenaten
- Title:
- Statuette of seated Akhenaten
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Musées Nationaux Moulages (reproduction)
Unknown (original)
- Photographer:
- Mihaloew, Andreya
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
mid 14th century BCE
2014 (image)
- Site:
- Paris, France (reproduction)
Egypt (probably Amarna) (original) - Location:
- White Hall (showcase outside Room 409), Cornell University
Paris, France (reproduction)
Egypt (probably Amarna) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0841
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 4
1 in relief at front of base
remains of label, no longer legible
778 - File Name:
- CCC_0841.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 64 (H) x 17 (W) x 35 (D) cm
- Culture:
- Egyptian
- Style/Period:
- Amarna Period, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
stone sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Pharaohs
Tell el-Amarna (Egypt) - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 62.3 x 19 x 35 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a cast of a yellow stone statuette of a seated Akhenaten (also Akhnaten, Akhenaton, and formerly Amenophis or Amenhotep IV) now in the Louvre. Akhenaten sits with his legs together and looks straight ahead. He wears a nemes headdress with a uraeus at the front. He holds a crook and flail in his right hand, which is elevated to the level of his chest. His left hand rests on his left thigh. His physique is fleshy: Small rolls of fat fall below his plump breasts and his rounded belly protrudes above his short, striped skirt. As evidenced by the remains of the arm around the small of the pharaoh's back, this was a member of a statue group in which Akhenaten's wife, Nefertiti, probably sat at his side. The feet and seat of the original have been recarved. This cast has been painted a grayish white, but the stone of the original is a medium yellow. This cast has several markings: An insignia within an oval on the base reads "MUSEE NATIONAUX MOULAGE". To the right of this oval a mostly illegible cursive is etched. Of this, it is possible to make out "his" (perhaps from Amenophis IV?). To the left of the oval, "1" is written in relief. A square in intaglio with illegible letters or symbols in relief is present on the upper back surface of Akhenaten's seat. A small pictogram, probably a more a recent addition, has been written in black ink on the side of the pharaoh's seat. Finally, the remains of an adhesive label are present at the front of the base in the top left corner.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. N 831 - Bibliography:
- Emily Teeter, Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 183, fig. 77
Rita E. Freed, Yvonne J. Markowitz, and Sue H. D'Auria, eds., Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen (Boston: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company, 1999), 230, no. 85 - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Paris, Louvre (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.