Caption:
Relief with palace attendant, New Kingdom, Amarna Period, Dynasty 18, ca. 1353–1336 BC, From Egypt, Sandstone, H. 23 × W. 30.5 × D. 4.5 cm (9 1/16 × 12 × 1 3/4 in.), Narrow wooden palm columns provide the clue that a room of a palace or house structure is depicted on this block, since the stone temples employed in the main thick stone papyrus bundle columns. Many scenes of palaces are depicted in relief from royal buildings and in officials tombs, as the 'palace' served as a point of departure or station on the king's regularly depicted journey to the temple