id: 148794 accession number: 1976.4 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.4 updated: 2023-04-22 12:24:30.364000 Talatat: Portrait of Nefertiti, c. 1353–1347 BC. Egypt, Karnak, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep IV, 1353-1337 BC. Painted sandstone; overall: 21.5 x 24.3 cm (8 7/16 x 9 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1976.4 title: Talatat: Portrait of Nefertiti title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1353–1347 BC creation date earliest: -1353 creation date latest: -1347 current location: 107 Egyptian creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Egypt, Karnak, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep IV, 1353-1337 BC technique: painted sandstone department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Egypt - New Kingdom type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 21.5 x 24.3 cm (8 7/16 x 9 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review, 1976 opening date: 1977-02-01T05:00:00 Year in Review, 1976. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977). 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). title: Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt opening date: 2016-03-13T05:00:00 Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 13-June 12, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Pharaohs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from the Louvre. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 11-April 14, 1996). --- PROVENANCE Mrs. Paul and Milton Girod Mallon, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1976 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1976- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Even though all we see is a fragment of the head we know it is Nefertiti by the double uraeus or serpent symbol on the headband, which was only worn by the queen. digital description: wall description: The son of Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, brought about the short-lived "monotheistic" revolution in Egyptian religion near the end of Dynasty 18. The young king constructed a temple complex to the Aten, the Sun Disk, at Karnak—from which this relief comes—before he moved his capital to El Armana. For reasons yet unknown, the figure of the Queen Nefertiti appears in these reliefs far more often than that of the king. Ironically, the Aten temples were dismantled anciently to be used as foundations and fill for additions to the Great Temple of Amun, whom the Aten had briefly displaced. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Chevrier, Henri, "Rapport sur les travaux de Karnak 1953-1954," Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte (ASAE) 53 (1956). page number: pl. XIX url: Kozloff, Arielle P. "Nefertiti, Beloved of the Living Disk." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 9 (1977). page number: pp. 287-98, fig. 3, cover url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159548 Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1976." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 2 (1977). page number: no. 4, p. 43 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152676 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 Johnson, Mark M. "An Introduction to the Art of Egypt," Arts and Activities 83 no. 2 (March 1978). page number: pp. 38-9, fig. 8 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Adele Z. Silver. Guide to the Galleries. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: p. 11, fig. 10 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Arielle P. Kozloff. An Introduction to the Art of Egypt in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar]: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], 1983. page number: p. 11 url: 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: Reproduced: p. 244, Color: p. 55; Mentioned: p. 244 url: Vandenbeusch, Marie, Aude Semat, and Margaret Maitland. Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt. 2016. page number: p. 99, fig. 57 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.4/1976.4_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.4/1976.4_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.4/1976.4_full.tif