4 Color Positive Film 4x5 for Canopic Jar, Queen Nefertiti, Museum NYC Met.

Description

These 4x5 positive films for The Canopic Jar, Queen Nefertiti, they are
original films for the items in
the metropolitan museum of art in 1990.
The films
produce rich, saturated colors and strong contrast and self framed by 11x14".
2nd and 4th film. This delightful detail from an Amarna stela features a doting mother—Queen Nefertiti—enjoying some quality time with two of her young princesses. It's a great example of the relaxed family scenes that the non-conforming pharaoh, Akhenaten, commissioned during his reign.
Here young Meketaten sits on Nefertiti's knees, looking up at her mother, and Ankhesenpaaten (the future wife of Tutankhamun) playfully fiddles with a uraeus pendant on Nefertiti’s crown.
Intimate portraits like this provide an insight into palace life never before seen—of course, all under the life-giving rays of the Aten.
3rd film.
Canopic Jar with a Lid in the Shape of a Royal Woman's Head
ca. 1349–1336 B.C. or shortly there after.
The jar was bequeathed to the Museum by the tomb's discoverer, Theodore M. Davis, who received it as part of his share of the division of finds from the Egyptian Antiquities Service.
Although this canopic jar was intended for a funerary context, the face on the lid was carved by a master with the skill and care one might expect in a more public portrait. Whatever the age of the owner at her death, she was given a youthful countenance for the eternal afterlife. The shape of the face, with its long slender nose, sloe eyes, and sensuous mouth, identifies it as a product of the second half of Akhenaten's reign, after he moved the royal court to Amarna. The jar and lid were altered in antiquity making it extremely difficult to identify the original owner.
The striking face represents one of the royal women of Amarna. Her hairstyle of overlapping curls, known as the
Nubian wig
, was worn only by adults and was popular among the female members of Akhenaten's family. The hole at the center of the forehead once secured the separately carved upper body of a rearing cobra whose tail is visible across the top of the wig. This royal protector, called a
uraeus
was exclusively worn by kings and queens.