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Lid in the Shape of a Royal Woman's Head, c.1349–36 B.C. (travertine, blue glass, obsidian)

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Lid in the Shape of a Royal Woman's Head, c.1349–36 B.C. (travertine, blue glass, obsidian)
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Egyptian 18th Dynasty (c.1567-1320 BC) / Egyptian
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Medium
travertine, blue glass, obsidian
Date
c. 1349 BC - 1336 BC (C14th BC)
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height: 18.2 cms
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New Kingdom, Amarna Period, 18th Dynasty, reign of Akhenaten From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Valley of the Kings, Tomb KV 55, Davis/Ayrton excavations, 1907 The head is a royal woman of Amarna in a Nubian wig, variously idenitifed as Akhenaten's mother Queen Tiye, his wives Queen Nefertiti and Kiya and his daughter Princess Merytaten 4 canopic jars for human organs needed in the afterlife: stomach, intestines, lungs and liver. Egyptians believed the heart to be the seat of the soul so it was left inside the body.

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