Relief of Queen Nefertiti, New Kingdom, Amarna Period, Dynasty 18, ca. 1353–1336 BC, From Egypt; Probably from Upper Egypt, Thebes, Karnak, Sandstone, H. 22 cm ( 8 11/16 in); w. 32 cm (12 5/8 in), Nefertiti, whose name means 'the Beautiful One Is Here,' was principal queen of Akhenaton. Like her mother-in-law Queen Tiye, Nefertiti was a powerful figure in the court. She is frequently shown participating in religious rituals on an equal footing with her husband, and she already played an unprecedented role in the decoration of the Aten structures that Amenhotep IV built at Karnak, from which this block almost certainly came, before his move to Tell el-Amarna
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