Agyptiches Museum, Berlin. Dynasty XVIII 1350 B.C.

This relief shows Queen Nefertiti and her husband, King Akhenaton,
playing with two of her daughters while being rejuvenated by the
rays of the Aten disc shining upon them. Nefertiti means “The
Beautiful one is come”. She was the daughter of a high dignitary of
the Pharaoh’s court. She was the wife of King Akhenaton, who ruled
from 1379 to 1362 B.C. She was an influential Queen but she is
principally remembered for her personal beauty. Details of the life
of the beauteous Queen are veiled by the mist of time. One of her
six daughters was Ankhesenamun, Tutankhamun’s wife. Her tomb has
never been discovered. This relief is a typical example of the
Amarna style, brought about by King Akhenaton, who ordered the
palace sculptors to abandon Egypt’s long tradition of idealizing
portraiture and insisted that he and his family be shown in candid
domestic scenes such as this one.

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