IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 58965 accession number: E.GA.4514.1943 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Limestone relief from a building, decorated with a carved scene showing two soldiers. The soldiers can be indentified as Nubians (from Southern Egypt-Sudan) on account of the short wigs that they wear. Nubians were seen as one of the traditional enemies of ancient Egypt because their territories bordered Egypt. Nubian soldiers fighting for Egypt were, however, well known and there are many references and depictions of them; they are typically shown with black skin. The soldier on the left carries a round shield over his right arm and spear in his right hand; in his left hand he holds an axe. He appears to be naked. The solder in front carries a rope in his right hand; the left hand is missing at the break. This figure appears to wear a garment, which is tied beneath his chest. The block has traces of plaster wash and blue pigment. the size and proportion of the figures would suggest that this was a kind of block used in the Amarna period and known as a talatat block. These blocks were smaller than those typically used for Egyptian architecture in order to make building easier. During this short period of rule there were extensive building programmes at the new capital city Ahketaten, often also called Amarna. object type: Limestone relief block carved with an image of two soldiers. title: relief LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/58965 TECHNIQUES ---------- carved CATEGORIES ------ category: architectural element DATING ------ creation date: 1351 - 1334 creation date earliest: 1351 creation date latest: 1334 culture: Amarna period culture: Eighteenth Dynasty culture: New Kingdom DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: m value: 0.06 dimension: Length units: m value: 0.175 dimension: Width units: m value: 0.25 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Africa: The Art of a Continent title: Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankamen title: Akhenaten CITATIONS -------- Akhenaten and Nefertiti Egyptian Art [1995] Farao's van de Zon: Achnaton, Nefertiti, Toetanchamon --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_GA_4514_1943.jpg height: 520 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/mid_E_GA_4514_1943.jpg height: 342 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_GA_4514_1943.jpg height: 520 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/preview_E_GA_4514_1943.jpg height: 171 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/410/244/large_E_GA_4514_1943_mas.jpg height: 832 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/410/244/mid_E_GA_4514_1943_mas.jpg height: 406 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/E.GA.4514.1943_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/410/244/preview_E_GA_4514_1943_mas.jpg height: 203 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/410/244/E_GA_4514_1943_mas.ptif height: 4224 pixels width: 5201 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/277/large_E_GA_4514_1943__201209_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 737 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/277/mid_E_GA_4514_1943__201209_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 360 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/E.GA.4514.1943 _201209_mfj22_dc1.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/277/preview_E_GA_4514_1943__201209_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 180 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/277/E_GA_4514_1943__201209_mfj22_dc1.ptif height: 3731 pixels width: 5182 pixels