# Amarna Egyptian Princess with Elongated Head

**By Nina Christensen** · 2016-03-12

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**Portrait of an Egyptian Amarna princess, 19th Dynasty, circa 1340 BC**  
**Pharaoh Amenhotep IV** ruled the New Kingdom from 1353 to 1336 BC. He soon rename himself Akhenaten and founded a new capital **Akhetaten** (the current El Amarna) where he ceased to be polytheistic and started to solely worship **Aten**, the solar disk. In art history, Akhenaten is important because he had the first, **life-like, naturalistic portraits** make at the workshop led by the master sculptor **Thutmose**. Until that time, only static, idealizing portraiture had existed. Many unfinished statues were found during the excavation of Thutmose's workshop in 1912, including three **wonderful portraits of Akhenaten's daughters** and his wife Nefertiti. The hollows where the eyebrows should be were to be inlaid with semi-precious stones. The remarkably long skulls could indicate a hereditary physical deformity, but could also have been caused by the binding of the infants' skulls. However, it could also perhaps be an artistic exaggeration of contemporary beauty ideals.

-   Statue replica is part of the Parastone 3D Mouseion Museum Collection. Comes with description card.
-   Head is made from resin with a skin tone to emulate red quartzite stone. Base is made from black wood.
-   Overall size is 10.4 in H x 4.5 in W x 6.5 in D including base 2.5 in H x 3.75 in W x 5 in D. Weighs 7.5 lbs.

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