Brooklyn Museum: Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art: Relief, Lute Player

11:49 10/29/2008

Hello Kea! Here is some more bibliography for this relief: -Cooney, John. Amarna reliefs from Hermopolis in American collections (Brooklyn Museum, New York 1965) pp. 87-88. -Aldred, Cyril. Akhenaten and Nefertiti: catalog of an exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. (Brooklyn Museum, New York in association with Viking Press 1973) Cat.# 126. -Roeder, Günther. Amarna Reliefs aus Hermopolis (Hildesheim, Gerstenberg 1969) p.405. -Bosse-Griffiths, Kate. “Two Lute-Players of the Amarna Era,” in L’Egyptologie en 1979 II (Paris, CNRS 1982) pp.215ff. -Romano, James. “A Prince or a God at El Amarna?” in Amarna Letters: Essays on Ancient Egypt (San Francisco, KMT Communications 1991) p. 88, n. 14. -Decker, Wolfgang. Bildatlas zum Sport im Alten Ägypten: Corpus der bildlichen Quellen zu Leibesübungen, Spiel, Jagd, Tanz und verwandten Themen. (Leiden, New York, E.J.Brill 1994) Vol. 1, p. 529; Vol. 2 pl. CCXCVII. All of these publications are available at the Brooklyn Museum's Wilbour Library.

posted by Yekaterina Barbash

18:51 10/15/2008

Our Egyptian Art department has a b/w negative of this work. We're scanning it -- should be up on the Web in a couple of days.

posted by Deborah Wythe

16:59 10/15/2008

I was recently reading an article on this by Kate Bosse-Griffiths. There is a pic of this relief in her article in JEA and also in the book in which it was republished: Amarna Studies. Can't remember the publisher. Do you know of any other publications on thie peice?

posted by Kea J

07:37 10/14/2008

Hello Patrick, Our collection is huge and, while thousands of objects have been photographed, many haven't. It's possible there's a b/w negative on file that we can digitize--I'll check and put it in the works if we do. Deborah

posted by

debwythe

12:20 10/13/2008

Can we see it, please?

posted by Patrick Philpott

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Relief, Lute Player

When still intact, the scene from which this relief comes showed one of Akhenaten's daughters playing a lute in a boat floating through reeds in the Nile marshes. The thumb and index finger of the princess's right hand strum the chords, while the long delicate fingers of her left hand press down on the lute strings.

Medium: Limestone, painted
Geographical Locations:
- Place made: Amarna, Egypt
- Place found: Hermopolis, Egypt
Dates: ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E.
Dynasty: late XVIII Dynasty
Period: New Kingdom, Amarna Period
Dimensions: 21 x 9 1/4 in. (53.3 x 23.5 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Amarna Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 60.197.9
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Image: Overall, 60.197.9_edited_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Collections: Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art: Relief, Lute Player