Sequin

Description

Gold foil sequin pressed into a hemisphere, perforated at three points on the circumference and chased with the cartouches of King Smenkare: Ancient Egyptian, upper Egypt, Thebes, probably Valley of the Kings, 18th Dynasty, c.1338-1327 BC

Museum reference

A.1959.451

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Sequin

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

18th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Gold

Collection place(s)

Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

King Smenkh-ka-re

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

J.R. Harris, (1974).'Neferneferuaten Regnans', Acta Orientalia 36, pp. 11-21, see pp. 15, 17 fig. 3.

J.R. Harris, (1992). 'Akhenaten and Neferneferuaten in the Tomb of Tutankhamun' in C. Reeves, ed. After Tutankhamun: Research and Excavation in the Royal Necropolis at Thebes, pp. 55-72, see p. 60.

R. KRAUSS, « Einige Kleinfunde mit Namen von Amarnaherrschern », CdE 65, fasc. 130, pp. 206-18, esp pp. 213-216, p. 209, fig. 2, n° 1 and p. 210, fig. 3, n° 2.

A. Dodson, (2009). Amarna Sunset (Cairo: AUC Press), pp. 46, 146 n. 85.

Dodson, Aidan (2009), 'Amarna Sunset: the late-Amarna succession revisited', in S. IKRAM & A. DODSON (eds), Beyond the Horizon: Studies in Egyptian Art, Archaeology and History in Honour of Barry J. Kemp, p. 33 n. 20.

On display

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