As was typical of all foreign excavations, toward the end of the excavation campaign the obligatory partage took place in keeping with the legal statutes set forth by the Council of Antiquities. In his excavation diary Borchardt writes that on the morning of the partage photographs of all the finds were presented, and an exact inspection of the finds carried out.
Mr Lefebvre comes around at 10 for the division. He greets us by saying that he has already heard about our lovely finds from Herr v. Bissing, who wrote to him about them.
He examines objects of hard stone particularly thoroughly: stele p. Samples of the smaller finds are also examined. The official partage marked the end of the excavation campaign of —, which was followed by one last campaign shortly before the outbreak of the First World War.
By contract all the finds allotted to the party from Berlin became the property of James Simon, who, in an extraordinarily generous gesture, bequeathed all the finds from Amarna, including the bust of Nefertiti, to the Berlin museum in This website uses cookies. Those have two functions: On the one hand they are providing basic functionality for this website.
On the other hand they allow us to improve our content for you by saving and analyzing anonymized user data. You can redraw your consent to using these cookies at any time. Find more information regarding cookies on our Data Protection Declaration and regarding us on the Imprint. Current Preview Archive. Plan Quadrant P Today I would like to write the same again, as I am convinced that my words cannot portray the impression left by this work of art, and that even the colour reproduction […] does not clearly illustrate the vivacity and delicacy of the original, but only suggests them.
The preservation is astoundingly good. The erect portion of the cobra is broken off, as are two small pieces of the sharp upper edge of the wig on the right and left; on the left side a larger section of the plaster coating has flaked off; both ears are damaged, on the right some fragments have now been reattached. The inlay is missing from the left eye; since however no traces of a binding agent were detected in the eye socket, and the background is smooth and not in any way recessed so as to accommodate an inlay, it is certain that the left eye was never filled with an inlay.
On the right shoulder as well a small piece chipped off; additionally, here and there scarcely noticeable scratches on the face, nose, etc. In several places traces of impure moisture, probably from rain water, which flowed contaminated through the already leaky roof and fell on the bust still standing on its shelf.
The muscles of the nape and sides of the neck are so delicately rendered that one imagines one sees them flexing under the delicate skin, which is rendered in a healthy hue. Egyptian sculptors hardly ever attempted to express any emotion in the faces of their artworks [ Viewed from the front, it exhibits complete mirror symmetry, and yet it will be utterly clear to the viewer that he is not looking at some constructed ideal here, but instead at the stylised, though nonetheless thoroughly recognisable image of a specific person with a strongly striking appearance.
The core of the bust consists of limestone, over which a layer of stucco of varying thickness was applied for the final modelling.
What makes the effect of the bust so extraordinary, however, is above all its vibrant colours, which are unique in their state of preservation and which give the bust its extraordinarily lifelike quality. Without the painting and the inlaid eye the bust would still rank as a masterpiece of craftsmanship, but would have a completely different effect. The multi-layered application of the paint was documented with the highest level of accuracy in contact-free tests carried out by the Rathgen-Forschungslabor of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in It is also notable, however, that the utmost attention was paid to attaining perfection in the face, while the collar was given a more superficial treatment.
The iris and pupil of the right eye were made of beeswax dyed black, covered with a thin piece of polished rock crystal as a cornea. Immediately after the bust was found on 6 December Ludwig Borchardt ordered a search for the missing inlay from the left eye.
In his initial publication of he notes:. The debris, even that which had already been removed, was immediately searched, and some of it sifted. A few more fragments of the ears were found, but not the eye inlay. For you From you Contact information Imprint Legal Details. Room 2. An entire room is set aside for Nefertiti. Her tomb in the Valley of the Kings has never been found.
Ancient cities rescued from rubble, bit by bit. The space appears to be around 2 metres high and at least 10 metres long.
But not everyone is convinced. Zahi Hawass, another former antiquities minister, says that using geophysical techniques to search for tombs in Egypt has previously raised false hopes and he argues that such work should not be pursued.
Hawass is himself searching for new tombs, including that of Nefertiti, but using more conventional techniques. He told Nature that in , he excavated the area north of KV62 looking for tomb entrances, but found nothing. The radar survey is the latest in a succession of investigations that have tried to confirm whether additional chambers exist — provoking much disagreement and conflicting results.
The new data are intriguing, says Nicholas Reeves, a British Egyptologist who has spent many years working in the Valley of the Kings. However, Reeves, who first suggested the idea that there is an extension to KV62 , still thinks Nefertiti will be found somewhere inside. Divided by DNA: The uneasy relationship between archaeology and ancient genomics.
From clues in the wall paintings themselves, Reeves concluded that there was a hidden occupant and that it was Nefertiti. Following this report, Eldamaty, as antiquities minister, oversaw two GPR surveys of the tomb walls. One, conducted by a team from Japan, seemed to confirm the existence of hidden rooms.
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