id:			135656
accession number:	1959.186
share license status:	CC0
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updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:46.169000

Talatat: Nefertiti Offers to the Aten, 1353–1347 BCE. Egypt, Karnak, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten (1351–1334 BCE). Painted sandstone; overall: 20.5 x 41.2 cm (8 1/16 x 16 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1959.186

title:				Talatat: Nefertiti Offers to the Aten
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creation date:			1353–1347 BCE
creation date earliest:		-1353
creation date latest:		-1347
current location:		107 Egyptian
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Egypt, Karnak, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten (1351–1334 BCE)
technique:	painted sandstone
department:	Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection:	Egypt - New Kingdom
type:		Sculpture
find spot:	East Karnak
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measurements: Overall: 20.5 x 41.2 cm (8 1/16 x 16 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Exposition Akhénaton
	opening date:   2008-10-16T00:00:00
	<i>Exposition Akhénaton</i>. Musée d'art et d'histoire, Genéve 3, Switzerland (organizer) (October 16, 2008-February 1, 2009); Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy (February 26-June 14, 2009).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris, France, Sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: -1959
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1959-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	"Annual Report for the Year 1959." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 47, no. 6 (1960).
	page number: 	p. 132
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142399

	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter<em>. Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963.
	page number: 	p. 11, pl. 13
	url:		https://archive.org/details/EgyptianArt_80670/page/n13

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 4
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n28

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>1967.
	page number: 	pl. 4
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	Cooney, John D. "Amarna Art in the Cleveland Museum." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 55, no. 1 (1968).
	page number: 	pp. 7-9, fig. 6
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152189

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 4
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n26

	Porter, Bertha, Rosalind Louisa Beaufort Moss, and Ethel W. Burney. <em>Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II</em>, II. Oxford [etc.]: Clarendon Press, 1972.
	page number: 	p. 40
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	Kozloff, Arielle P. "Nefertiti, Beloved of the Living Disk." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 64, no. 9 (1977).
	page number: 	p. 293, fig. 9
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159548

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 15
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n35

	Smith, William Stevenson, William Kelly Simpson, and Cinamon Gerald. <em>The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt.</em> 1981.
	page number: 	p. 309, fig. 299
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 4
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n20

	Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 241-242; Reproduced: p. 241
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