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Sculptor Trial with Two Royal Portraits
JE 59294 Cairo Antiquity Museum
Material: Linestone
Size: Height:23 cm; Width: 31 cm
Location: El-Amarna
Excavation: J.D.S. Pendlebury's Excavations of
1932-1933
Period: 18th Dynasty, Reign of Akhenaten (1353-1335
BC)
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Scholars are not sure whether these faces both belong to
Akenaten,
or one of him and one of his successor, Smenkhkare.
This trial was used by the sculpture to work out his
composition. Usually, the artist used such trials to
work out artistic problems prior working on the final
statue.
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