The incomplete quartz head of Queen Nefertiti, wife of King Akhenaten, was part of a composite statue in which each element was carved separately to be grouped later into a single statue.
Like the rest of the Akhenaten family, the head depicts the queen according to the Amarna art style.
The modern state
Eighteenth Dynasty
The Amarna era
Akhenaten era
About 1353 - 1336 BC
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo
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