Tutankhamen exhi. notes

The Tutankhamen exhibition was a help, not hugely, but enough :)

To advertise it around the museum they had pictures of one of the (early i assume) Amarna carved reliefs, understandably why, as they provide great visual interest.

ANYWAY here are some of the notes i took, after almost not being able to because I was using a pen...

· Sculptures head of a Princess from Amarna

o “The unusual elongation of the skull, which appears in other Amarna figures, may have reflected religious ideology. Possibly a familial trait, this feature also occurs in the mummy of Tutankhamen, who may have

been the half brother”

And as the children of Nefertiti they are presumably not inbred like their half brother, and Akhenaten's mummy didn't show any signs of deformities

either, perhaps it is a result of their environment? Is it possible that their skulls are so 'odd' because of the 'pillows' they slept on? If they slept on them with their lower neck would the skull change and 'hang', and so creating a very curved and elongated skull??? Just a thought i really need your advice for sir or anyone else. These pictures may help

· Face from a statue of Nefertiti (brown quartzite)

o “she appears here with naturalistic features, not (with the) exaggeration of earlier statues”

Even my sister agreed that she didn't look African American, and in another picture I showed her she said she looked slightly European, largely b/c of her delicate features

· Limestone Sculptures practice model in sunk relief (double sided)

o “A depiction of Queen Nefertiti appears on one side of this trial piece and a kneeling courtier on the other... the full lip and long neck are characterisations of the Amarna period”

Shows the struggles of the artist Bek to grasp new style, which after the re-discovery of Amarna effects MANY interpretations.

· Funerary figure of AKI, osirian: interetsing, but i think b/c of the growth in unpopularity, Akhenaten relinquished the existence of only one God.

· “carved and painted figures become less angular, exhibiting a new realism”

There was a head of the colossi there also, and I can say that the positioning DOES affect how one sees the statues, even my sister agreed!! And it helped that they positioned it the right way. Though, it still looked kinda weird.