[BenLurkin]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks. [reprise begins] The new KMT journal has "An Amarna Icon Reconsidered: Berlin Relief 15000" by Earl L. Ertman.

[T]he presence of the cap-crown with the sun-disk-topped dual uraei, as well as the double lines below the abdomen, seem to require the identification of this figure as Nefertiti rather than any of her daughters; additionally, since the king's face on the relief is quite similar to an inscribed depiction of Akhenaten on British Museum stele No. 24431 -- and if the factors favoring a Nefertiti identification for the queen are correctly interpreted -- an object long thought to be a depiction of the royal couple Smenkhkare and Meritaten should now be revised as representations -- albeit not typical ones -- of King Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti.

Now we can all sleep nights. ;')

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