Relief with two royal male figures

Relief with two royal male figures

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This relief depicts the torsos of two figures, a larger one on the left and a smaller one on the right. The figure on the right is clearly a male, and the figure on the left must also be a male because the angle of the garment ridges identify it as the male wrapped kilt. The clothing along with the intimacy of the grouping thus indicate two male members of the Amarna royal family are depicted. Given the size differential of the two figures, it is perhaps more likely that Smenkhare and Tutankhaten as brothers (?) are depicted, rather than Akhenaten and Smenkhkare as coregents.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.