Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue
Royal Lute Player New Kingdom, Amarna PeriodHermopolis, Egypt
Description
Object Label: 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. Caption: Royal Lute Player, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 21 x 9 1/4 in. (53.3 x 23.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 60.197.9. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 60.197.9 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3701 tier-2
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