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The small museum at Luxor is a beautiful building
for the display of beautiful sculpture. The pieces
are from the Middle and New Kingdoms. The displays
are quite dramatic, but the lighting is not very
bright, making things difficult for the
photographer. As in almost all such places, flash
is prohibited.
Akhenaten was apparently deformed, with an
extremely long neck and long narrow face, somewhat
hunchbacked. The realistic representations he
seems to have preferred caused some artists to
depict everyone as looking like him. The famous
head of his wife, Nefertiti, which was taken to
Germany, shows that a good artist did not make
this error.
I am grateful to Katherine Griffis-Greenberg and
Joanna Aksamit for correcting some of the errors
which I made in my initial composition of this
page. Thanks also to Dr. Joern Osselman. who has
suggested further changes, which I have made. |
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Tuthmosis 3 wearing the Atef
crown. This block is from a huge temple wall
at Hetshepsut's Temple. |
Internal organs were removed
from the deceased, treated and placed in
canopic jars.
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Statue of Amenophis 3 in black granite.
The inscriptions on the base claims
"Beloved of Amun-Re. Lord of Karnak".
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Sobek and Amenophis 3 in a beautiful
alabaster statue. Found at Dahamsha. |
Life size statue of the goddess Hathor.
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