id: 135658
accession number: 1959.188
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Talatat: Portrait of Nefertiti, c. 1353–1347 BCE. Egypt, Karnak, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten (1351–1334 BCE). Painted sandstone; overall: 22 x 22.7 cm (8 11/16 x 8 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1959.188
title: Talatat: Portrait of Nefertiti
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creation date: c. 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: 22 x 22.7 cm (8 11/16 x 8 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Art from the Age of the Sun King
opening date: 1973-09-17T04:00:00
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).
title: Exposition Akhénaton
opening date: 2008-10-16T00:00:00
Exposition Akhénaton. 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
* {'description': 'Akhenaten and Nefertiti, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (September 17-November 25, 1973); The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI (December 19, 1973-Febuary 28, 1974).', 'opening_date': '1973-09-17T00:00:00'}
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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." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 6 (1960).
page number: p. 132
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142399
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter. Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963.
page number: p. 11, pl. 12, cover
url: https://archive.org/details/EgyptianArt_80670
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Published as: Akh-en-Aten.
page number: Reproduced: p. 4
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n28
Cooney, John D. "Amarna Art in the Cleveland Museum." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 1 (1968).
page number: pp. 7-8, cover
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152189
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Published as: Akhenaten.
page number: Reproduced: p. 4
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n26
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Adele Zeidman Silver. Guide to the Galleries. 1971.
page number: unpaginated
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Porter, Bertha, Rosalind Louisa Beaufort Moss, and Ethel W. Burney. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings II, II. Oxford [etc.]: Clarendon Press, 1972.
page number: p. 40
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Aldred, Cyril. Akhenaten and Nefertiti; [Catalog of an Exhibition Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences]. New York: Brooklyn Museum in association with the Viking Press, 1973.
page number: no. 23
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Kozloff, Arielle P. "Nefertiti, Beloved of the Living Disk." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 9 (1977).
page number: pp. 291-92, fig. 6
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159548
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 15
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n35
Aldred, Cyril. Akhenaten, King of Egypt. New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 1988.
page number: pl. 29
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Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 243
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IMAGES
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