
AKHENATEN AND NEFERTITI
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Brooklyn Museum in Association with Viking Press, New York, 1973. ISBN 0-670-11139-2. Hard cover, 240 pages including Notes, Catalogue, Bibliography, and Concordances. Good to very good; brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine; binding sound with headbands; light edge and corner wear; slight curve to boards. Dust jacket has edge and cover wear; short edge tears and small losses, some repaired tears on verso; possibly moisture rippling to front panel. Interior clean and unmarked; black & white and colour photographs/plates. ‘In about 1365 B.C. in ancient Egypt, a curious and brief break in convention occurred – both in religion, where a single supreme god suddenly replaced many, and in art, where a new naturalism loosened up the traditional stylized forms. This unusual development came about during the short reign of the Pharaoh Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti …’ (from front flap)