Vetron of the heads

An introduction about the royal family of Akhenaton:

Akhenaton married his beautiful wife Nefertiti, one of the most famous queens in the Egyptian history. She played a major role in the spreading of her husband’s message, the cult of Aton. She moved Axt itn with her husband Akhenaton. After a while queen Ti paid them a visit sailing from Thebes. This visit is recorded on the walls of the tomb of Huya; the superintendent of queen Ty’s estate. Nefertiti had six daughters. The most important of them was mrt itn they royal heiress who became the wife of a young man named smnx kA ra. The later was thought to be co-regent with Akhenaton. The king later on suffered from some personal problems. He and his wife seemed to have had a big quarrel for unknown reasons leading them to be separated. Before this family’s disputes the royal couple and the princesses used to perform their daily activities and visit the great temple of Aton.

The Amarna art:

The Amarna art took place under two phases, the earlier and later phase. In the earlier phases the style of art was idealism, like all kings of the New Kingdom all Akhenaton’s statues were idealistic. They represent the pharaoh as ideal being with normal proportions, normal distribution of his body. The artists of this period were not concerned with recording the changing cause of history but with but with eternal verities concerning kingship. The craftsmen employed on the many undertakings, both royal and private.

The later phases:

With the arrival of the symbol of sun disk, there also appears grotesque manner of portraying the king and the queen which no artist in ancient Egypt would have dared to initiate; this style of art is the realism. In this school of realism Akenaton was represented wwith with a lined and haggard face, along nose, thick lips, slanting eyes, overgrown jaw, hollow cheeks and his neck was shown as lean and his thighs inflanted above spindle shanks.

Nefertiti was portrayed with the similar exaggeration; she and the princesses in their more nature representation are shown with slender waists, buttocks and thigh. We have to reasons to explain the appearance of this style of art during the reign of Akhenaton.

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The collection of this vetron:

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In this collection starting from right to left we can see the following:

<!--The head of Queen Nefertiti was found in the palace of Ptah at Memphis. It is an unfinished head which carries all the characteristic features of Queen Nefertiti. The eyelid and the eye brow were prepared to receive the artificial inlaiment of the eye, the ears some how slope outwards. This might have been one of the faults of the artist during his work and it may be a reason why he abandoned the head unfinished

<!--Two heads of two daughters where there were no inscription found on them so we don’t know to whom they belong. The head is represented as elongated and the facial features are prominent

<!--Statue of a princess with no inscription and we don’t know the owner of this statue. The princess is depicted with all sings of childhood since she was represented naked. The facial features are very thick and the image also follows the imitation of Akenaton.

<!--An unfinished head and the owner is unknown probably it belonged to Akhenaton but was abandoned and never completed.