Building Scene

Medium: Limestone, pigment

Geograhical Locations:

• Hermopolis Magna, Egypt
• Tell el-Amarna, Egypt

Dates:ca. 1352-1347 B.C.E.

Dimensions: 8 3/8 x 10 5/8 x 1 7/16 in. (21.2 x 27 x 3.6 cm)

Collections:

• Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

Museum Location: Amarna Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor

Exhibitions:

• Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt
• Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity
• Ancient Egyptian Art

Accession Number: 61.195.1

Image: 61.195.1_SL1.jpg,

Catalogue Description:
Fragment of limestone relief with remains of two registers. On upper register in raised relief, legs of two men (soldiers?) running to right. Lower register also in raised relief. Man with bag on shoulders in a doorway; probably the first in a row of bearers, some of which in a row on another block in the same group of reliefs. Joins Brooklyn 86.132. Condition: Very incomplete. Upper register badly eroded. Scattered remains of original red paint on all bodies, particularly orange-red on face of man.

Brooklyn Museum