Standing Amarna King

ca. 1345 BCE (New Kingdom, 18th dynasty)

2.7 cm 10.4 cm 1.9 cm

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This small and somewhat ungainly figure of a king represents that remarkable period of religious revolution when Akhenaten (1352-1336 BCE) introduced the worship of his personal god, the Aten, the orb of the sun. Although the ruler represented by this tiny bronze image is not...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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