October 9, 2020

Spotlight: 18th Dynasty Individuals of Nobility The Pause is OVER. Visit MoAW in Person. Amazon Prime Day is next week donate to MoAW with each purchase at No Cost to You

Relief of a Noble Couple at a Banquet

One of MoAW's supporting members, John B., from Maryland, "Facetimed" the museum last week for a virtual tour and asked for these plaques to be this week's Spotlight.

Photographs by Alberto Acosta Lady Depet and Imenmes By the 5th Dynasty, the pharaoh had become less remote from his subjects while the priests who served him had grown in power. The pharaoh’s supreme divinity in the solar cult was eventually limited by the priesthood to the role of living son of the solar deity, Re. Gradually, as the priests and nobles closest to the pharaoh began to be allowed the expectation of an afterlife, the belief spread to every person high and low. The tombs of New Kingdom nobles were decorated by the very same craftsmen who executed the pharaohs’ tombs. Immortalizing an 18th Dynasty noblewoman and her husband, these delicately detailed reliefs came from the studio of the master sculptor Djhutmose during the reign of Amenhotep.  Relief of a Noble Couple at a Banquet  The studios of the talented royal sculptor Djhutmose were located in a lavish mansion in el-Amarna provided to him by the pharaoh Amenhotep IV. Its ruins yielded many fascinating masterpieces of ancient sculpture but his exquisite reliefs on the walls of the tombs at Thebes and el-Amarna provide remarkable glimpses of daily life during the 18th Dynasty. His delightful portrait of 2 noble guests at a banquet was found in the Theban tomb of Ramose, vizier to Amenhotep IV.  TUTANKHAMUN in Color, BBC Documentary

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