499507 Talatat: Nefertiti Offers to the Aten, 1353-1347 BC (painted sandstone) by Egyptian 18th Dynasty (c.1567-1320 BC); :20.5x41.2 cm; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA; (add.info.: The son of Amenhotep III, Akenaten, brought about the short-lived "monotheistic" revolution in Egyptian religion near the end of Dynasty XVIII. The young king constructed a temple complex to the Aten, the Sun Disk, at Karnak - from which these reliefs come - before he moved his capital to El Amarna. For reasons unknown, the figure of the Queen Nefertiti appears in these reliefs far more often than that of the king. Ironically, the Aten temples were dismantled anciently to be used as foundations and fill for adaptations to the Great Temple of Amun, whom the Aten had briefly displaced. ); Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund; Egyptian, out of copyright.