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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Neues Museum (Berlin, Berlin (state), Germany)en_US
dc.coverage.spatialSite: Neues Museum (Berlin, Berlin (state), Germany)en_US
dc.coverage.temporalca. 1340 BCE (creation)en_US
dc.creatorTuthmosisen_US
dc.date-1340en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-30T18:49:50Z
dc.date.available2013-08-30T18:49:50Z
dc.date.issued-1340en_US
dc.identifier231962en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2188en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/140211
dc.descriptionOverall view from the viewer's right; A German archeological team led by Ludwig Borchardt discovered the Nefertiti bust in 1912 in Thutmose's [Tuthmosis] workshop in Amarna, Egypt. It has been kept at several locations in Germany since its discovery, including a salt mine in Merkers-Kieselbach, the Dahlem museum (then in West Berlin), the Egyptian Museum in Charlottenburg and the Altes Museum. It is currently on display at the Neues Museum, Berlin, where it was displayed before World War II. The face is completely symmetrical and almost intact, but the left eye lacks the inlay present in the right. The pupil of the right eye is of inserted quartz with black paint and is fixed with beeswax. The background of the eye-socket is unadorned limestone. Nefertiti wears her characteristic blue crown known as the "Nefertiti cap crown" with a golden diadem band, which is looped around like horizontal ribbons and joins at the back, with an Uraeus (cobra) over her brow which is now broken. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 4/21/2011)en_US
dc.format.mediumlimestone; stucco; painten_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectportraiten_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectAkhenaton, King of Egypten_US
dc.subjectNefertiti, Queen of Egypt, 14th cent. B.C.en_US
dc.subjectAmarna perioden_US
dc.subjectEighteenth Dynastyen_US
dc.subjectNew Kingdom (Egyptian)en_US
dc.titleQueen Nefertiti Busten_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode7A3-E-AM-QNB-A7en_US
vra.culturalContextEgyptian (ancient)en_US
vra.techniquecarving (processes), painting and painting techniquesen_US
vra.worktypesculpture (visual work)en_US
dc.contributor.displayTuthmosis (Egyptian (ancient) sculptor, active ca. 1340 BCE)en_US


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