132: The Nefertiti Bust

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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How it was made, how it was discovered, and how it wound up in a museum far from its home. Date c.1347 BCE and 1912 CE. Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Follow the show on social media www.facebook.com/egyptpodcast and www.twitter.com/egyptianpodcast. Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com. Additional music by Michael Levy www.ancientlyre.com. Select Bibliography: Arnold, Dorothea. ‘Aspects of the Royal Female Image During the Amarna Period’. In The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt, edited by Dorothea Arnold, 85–120. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. Arnold, Dorothea. ‘The Workshop of the Sculptor Thutmose’. In The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt, edited by Dorothea Arnold, 41–84. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. ‘Did Germany Cheat to Get Bust of Nefertiti?’, 10 February 2009. https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/archaeological-controversy-did-germany-cheat-to-get-bust-of-nefertiti-a-606525.html. Robins, Gay. The Art of Ancient Egypt. London: The British Museum Press, 1997. Tyldesley, Joyce. Nefertiti’s Face: The Creation of an Icon. London: Profile Books, 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the History of Egypt podcast.
0:14.2	Episode 132, iconic Nefertiti.
0:18.3	Today we focus on the most famous work of Egyptian sculpture. The bust of
0:23.2	Nefertiti discovered at a mana. We explore how the head was made, how it was discovered, and how it
0:29.5	wound up in a museum far, far from its home. It is a story of top-quality craftsmanship, fascinating
0:36.2	discovery, and some rather dishonest practices.
0:40.3	From the heights of artistic achievement, we also face some of the dark realities in
0:45.5	Egyptological history. This podcast was sponsored by Eileen, Martin and Deborah, who joined the
0:52.2	podcast on patreon.com.
0:56.2	Folks, you are too kind.
0:57.5	Thank you for your support.
1:00.9	And may the R10 bring blessings to your house.
1:04.3	To everyone listening, thank you for stopping by.
1:24.5	On with the show. The year was approximately 1347 BCE.
1:31.9	Reginal year 16 under the Majesty of Akinatan, King of Egypt, son of Ra, etc., etc.
1:38.9	This story has very little to do with the Pharaoh of Egypt, except in the sense that the Nefertiti bust was commissioned and manufactured sometime in the king's reign. It was made at his new city, Akhet
1:46.4	Aten, and it depicted his wife, the queen of Egypt, Nefertiti. But this story is not really
1:53.1	about Akanatin or Nefertiti. Instead, it is about a group of artists. In the later years
2:00.7	of Ackanaten's reign, artisans working in the
2:04.0	royal city created some of their most beautiful images. The king had always taken a special interest
2:10.9	in art in public imagery that conveyed ideas. From the very start of his reign, Arcanartan had used statues, wall carvings,
2:20.6	and paintings to communicate his ideas about the world and his place within it. At first,
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