Gypsum head of king Akhenaten found in an ancient layer of brick rubble on ground in front of the Great Aten Temple in Tell El-Amarna during the 2017 season of the mission headed by Pr. Barry Kemp.
Walid M. Omar was the workman who found it, whilst working under the supervision of archaeologist Anna Hodgkinson.
The pale cream head is max. 12.8 cm tall and 8 cm wide.
The general impression of the head is of something rapidly and confidently modelled by the fingers in a stiff clay by someone very practised at doing so, able to maintain a near-perfect symmetry during the course of the actions, and cognisant of the fine points of rendering the royal physiognomy.
View full description from Amarnaproject here
3D digitization : Thomas Sagory & Benoit Touchard
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