Amarna Period Painted Pottery Fragments ancestorfigure with a six-sided rounded base

with a six-sided rounded base and faint verification mark of a seven-rayed star on the front

likely from a mummified sacred animal

The figure’s head exhibits classic Songye aesthetics: large

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Amarna Period Painted Pottery Fragments ancestorfigure with a six-sided rounded baseNew Kingdom, Amarna Period, 18th Dynasty, Reign of Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), c. 13521336 BC, Egypt A beautiful and well preserved pair of painted pottery fragments from the side of a large ceramic vessel, crafted from fine reddish buff Nile silt clay during the Amarna Period. The gently curved fragments are decorated with elegant bands of stylized floral, foliate, and linear motifs, delicately rendered in vivid blue and black pigments against a cream