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An Egyptian limestone offering table fragment with two Aten cartouches

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4 July 2024, 11:00 BST
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An Egyptian limestone offering table fragment with two Aten cartouches
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Amarna Period, after year 9, circa 1351-1334 B.C.
15cm wide x 10.5cm deep x 4cm high

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Provenance:
Jacques Jean Clère (1906-1989) collection; and thence by descent.
Anonymous sale; Pierre Bergé & Associés, Paris, 21 May 2014, lot 23.
Property from a Princely Collection, acquired at the above sale.

The side of the table with two cartouches containing the later form of the name of the Aten, 'Long live Re-heqa-akhty-rejoicing-in-the-horizon-in-the-name-of-the-sunlight-coming-from-the-Aten'. At the beginning of Akhenaten's reign, Aten's name was recorded as "Re-Horakhty-who-rejoices-in-the-horizon-in-his-name-of-Shu-who-dwells-in-the-disk", with "Re-Horakhty" written with the falcon hieroglyph. From the year 9, Akhenaten changed the name of the god, meaning the animal form of the Horus falcon and the name of the god Shu were no longer used, leaving only Re.

The reign of Akhenaten marked an important break in Egyptian history as the pharaoh introduced a radical programme of religious and artistic reformation. At the death of his father Amenhotep III, he changed his name to Akhenaten and moved the capital to the new city of Akhetaten, modern Tel el-Amarna. He ruled from there together with his wife, Queen Nefertiti. The aim of his reform was to substitute the traditional polytheism for a new monotheistic cult centred around the deified sun disc, Aten.

Jacques Jean Clère was a noted French Egyptologist who was Director d'Études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1949, a Visiting Professor at Brown University from 1951-2 and 1960-1 and a Wilbour Fellow at the Brooklyn Museum from 1967. Clère published many linguistic articles as well as several monographs. His archive is held at the Griffith Institute at Oxford University.

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