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"tombstone": "Talatat: Men Hoeing the Earth, c. 1353\u20131347 BCE. Egypt, Karnak, New Kingdom (1540\u20131069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten (1351\u20131334 BCE). Painted sandstone; overall: 21.4 x 53.3 cm (8 7/16 x 21 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1959.187",
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"title": "Talatat: Men Hoeing the Earth",
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"title": "Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Art from the Age of the Sun King",
"description": "Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Art from the Age of the Sun King. The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (organizer) (September 17-November 25, 1973); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (December 19, 1973-February 28, 1974).",
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"description": "In the early part of his reign, Amenhotep IV built an enormous temple to the sun disk (Aten) at the east end of the temple of Karnak. To expedite construction, sandstone was quarried in small, regularly sized, easily manageable blocks called talatat. Unlike the huge monoliths typically used in temple construction, talatat could be carried and moved into position by one man. Not all of the temple was built of stone, however. In this block, workmen are shown bent in toil. They once formed part of a panoramic scene depicting the production of mud bricks. The men are involved in the initial stages of this process: hacking up the earth and gathering the raw clay. It is very likely that this talatat represents a distinct historical event, undoubtedly connected with Amenhotep IV\u2019s huge building enterprises at East Karnak.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter. Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 11",
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"citation": "Cooney, John D. \u201cAmarna Art in the Cleveland Museum.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 1 (January 1968): 2\u201317.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 9-10, fig. 7",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152189"
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"citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P. \u201cNefertiti, Beloved of the Living Disk.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 9 (November 1977): 287\u2013298.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 293-294, fig. 10",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159548"
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"citation": "Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Boha\u010d. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999",
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