An ancient Egyptian Amarna Period sandstone sunk relief fragment depicting a male figure kneeling prostrate with hands and face to the ground in pose of adoration, with another crouching figure behind.
Reign of Akhenaten, Amarna Period, 18th Dynasty,
Ca. 1350 - 1334 BC.
Length:16 1/2 in. (18.5 cm).
Formerly in the Jean-Marie Talleux collection, Grand Fort Philippe, France; Drouot-Richelieu auction, Paris, December 5-6, 1995, lot 167; with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York; subsequently in a Connecticut private collection.
Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, vol. IX, (1997), no. 171.
