Relief

Description

Relief fragment, of limestone depicting a pair of harnessed chariot horses being restrained by a Nubian groom: Ancient Egyptian, Lower Egypt, probably Saqqara, New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty - 19th Dynasty, c1390–1186 BC

Museum reference

A.1961.438

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Relief

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

New Kingdom
18th Dynasty

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Limestone

Collection place(s)

Saqqara, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

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

Manniche, Lise (1988), Lost Tombs, pp. 29, 31.

Herold, Anja (1998), Streitwagentechnologie in der Ramses-Stadt - Bronze an Pferd und Wagen (Mainz : P. von Zabern).

Clark, Susanne (2007), 'Etruskische Elfenbein- und Beinarbeiten der orientalisierenden und früharchaischen Zeit', PhD Thesis at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, p. 41, n.197.

Pietri, Renaud (c. 2015) 'The Chariot in egyptian mind' PhD thesis at Montpellier University and the Ecole du Louvre.

On display

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