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The fragment of a hand and wrist of a statue carved of fine marmoreal limestone bears the so called early solar rings with the name of the sun-god Aten. This form of the solar titulary was in use starting from months 1 - 2 of the Inundation season, year 4 of Akhenaten, to his late year 11 - early year 12, and its presence on the statue proves that it was an image of Akhenaten or his wife Nefretete.

The fragment of a hand and wrist of a statue carved of fine marmoreal limestone bears the so called early solar rings with the name of the sun-god Aten. This form of the solar titulary was in use starting from months 1 - 2 of the Inundation season, year 4 of Akhenaten, to his late year 11 - early year 12, and its presence on the statue proves that it was an image of Akhenaten or his wife Nefretete.

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Hieroglyphs <-anx&G9&N27&N27-#b! <-Aa15-r-n-f-Aa15-#b!
Transliteration (1) ra-Hr-Axt(j) --- (2) m rn.f m ---
Translation (1) Re-Haracht [Rejoicing at the Horizon] (2) in his name of [Shu who is Aten] (1) Re-Haracht [Rejoicing at the Horizon] (2) in his name of [Shu who is Aten]

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1908 - purchased by Likhatchev at an unknown Italian antiquarian in Cairo.
1918 - with the collection of Likhatchev donated to the Archaeological Institute, Petrograd.
1925 - with the collection of Likhatchev transferred to the Museum of Palaeography (since 1935 Museum of Books, Documents and Scripts) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR,
1938 - with the collection of Likhatchev transferred to the Institute of History, Leningrad.
1938 - with the collection of Likhatchev transferred to the Hermitage.

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Perepelkin Yu.Ya., Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Institut Knigi, dokumenta Pis'ma. Opisaniye vystavki "Pis'mennost' drevnego mira i Rannego Srednevekov'ya. Moscow - Leningrad, 1936, p.15, no.XIY, 3.
Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, pp.65-66, cat.no.61, tab.I,61.
Bolshakov A.O. Miscellanea Hermitagiana I. Two Amarna Objects in the Hermitage Museum. GM 126 (1992).

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On the early solar rings and their dating see Perepelkin Yu.Ya., Perevorot Amen-hotpa IV, pt. I, Moscow, 1967, 46-53, 69-72.

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