#neferneferure

[geraldofallon]

Fallen London’s True Identities

Neferneferure as the Roseate Queen of Arbor

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Feb 9th, 1923

Finished cleaning Box 54. Docket on lid said 17 ? Of lapis lazuli. There were 15 blue glaze ewers, but two additional stoppers. Also other gl. Vases, 2 beautiful statuettes, one of blue glass, the other of crystalline limestone, a large scarab of blue glass and gold, & various other objects. All in confusion. Pieces of objects not belonging to this box at all, including a piece of a chariot.

From the journal of Arthur Mace, an Egyptologist that was part of Howard Carter’s team during the excavation of the Tomb of Tutankhamun.

[tiny-librarian]

The King's Chief Wife, King’s Daughters, and other royal women of Amarna have aroused much interest and controversy. Paradoxically, the controversies concerning these royal women arise in large part because far more information about them has survived than exists for almost all the other queens and princesses of Egypt combined. The writings of scholars attempting to re-create the history of the Amarna Period from this evidence make for fascinating — but sometimes confusing — reading. It is rare for any theory about the royal women to appear in print without two more articles being written to corroborate or contradict it. Thus, what follows is a mere sampling of the academic debate surrounding these dynamic women and their times.

The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt

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This fragment is part of a famous fresco that shows Neferneferure and Neferneferuaten Tasherit, two of the daughters of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.

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Detail of a fragment of a wall painting depicting the family of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, showing their 5th daughter Neferneferure.

Taken by me from the book: Silent Images: Women in Pharaonic Egypt

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A small wooden box lid, found in the Tomb of Tutankhamun, depicting his younger sister

This is the original description of the lid:

Inlay of glaze or glass, red, blue, green, white, and semi translucent with paint underneath. Flesh red, hair blue, kilt & background white, belt blue. Seat & collar of reddish glass with paint underneath. Border of bands of colours. Female figure & name Nefer-neferu-re: according to Petrie 5th daughter of Akhenaten.

Thickness of wood .4 At one end round knob of wood 1.5 in diam. Two battens underneath 6 wide by 8 deep.

Rest of box ?

Treatment. Stuck on loose inlay with celluloid cement & sprayed with solution of celluloid in amyl acetate.

Photo one is by Harry Burton, and shows the lid inside of the larger box it was found in.

Photo two is also by Burton, and shows the lid after it was removed from the box.

Photo three is a modern one, showing the lid in colour.

Source One

Source Two

[tiny-librarian]

Lid of wooden box with stone and glaze inlay

Inlay of glaze or glass, red, blue, green, white, and semi translucent with paint underneath. Flesh red, hair blue, kilt & background white, belt blue. Seat & collar of reddish glass with paint underneath. Border of bands of colours. Female figure & name Nefer-neferu-re: according to Petrie 5th daughter of Akhenaten.

[emthehistorygirl]

Lid of a small box foun in the tomb of Tutankhamun, showing a child and the name Princess Neferneferure 

(18th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Wood with Glass Inlays, Egyptian Museum Cairo, The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty From Ancient Egypt - D. Arnold)