Perdu et retrouvé. Le relief d’Horemheb Berlin ÄM 14125
(2022) Abgadiyat — Vol. 16/1, p. 34-51 (2022)
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- (en) Thought to have been destroyed and lost during World War II but eventually rediscovered, the relief Berlin ÄM 14125 shows King Horemheb kneeling and censing. Although it was damaged during the war, an old photograph and an old squeeze of the relief make it possible to study it thoroughly. Firstly, Horemheb’s face shows characteristics identical to those of Tutankhamun’s face also visible on a stela dated from Year 6 of his reign, which most probably attest to a first phase of the king’s official portrait. Secondly, a fragmentary p and the upper part of a column in the shape of a djed pillar having belonged to the kiosk in which was the divinity being censed, allow for identifying Ptah as this divinity and for proposing that the relief originates from Memphis. Thirdly, specific features of the scene sustain the view that it was originally ornamenting a lintel, perhaps that of a niche.
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Lurson, B. (2022). Perdu et retrouvé. Le relief d’Horemheb Berlin ÄM 14125. Abgadiyat, 16/1, 34-51. https://doi.org/10.1163/22138609-01601007 (Original work published 2022)