<em>Antelopes</em>, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 20 11/16 x 8 7/8 in. (52.5 x 22.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 60.197.5. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 60.197.5_SL1.jpg)

Antelopes, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 20 11/16 x 8 7/8 in. (52.5 x 22.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 60.197.5. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 60.197.5_SL1.jpg)

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Are the red markings that highlight the images in the relief put there later or when they were originally made?

It is all original. Most reliefs, were brightly painted in Ancient Egypt. But unlike the stone its painted on, fragile paint pigments don't always to survive well over thousands of years, so they come to us lacking much of their original bright paint.

So these colors probably represent their skin color?

Good question: Skin color was indicated with colors, yes, with men typically painted red, and women painted yellowish-white. That doesn't help us pinpoint what actual Egyptians looked like because this was clearly just a convention - real Egyptian women weren't paper-white, nor were the men really bright red.

Antelopes

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

The scene to which this block once belonged probably showed a desert hunting party. The hunters, Akhenaten and his entourage, would have appeared in chariots bearing down on their helpless prey. Their approach has not gone unnoticed: the ears of the two bubalis antelopes perk up at the sound of danger. The back of a third antelope may be seen in the lower right corner. Such isolated blocks provide a hint of the complex decorative schemes that once existed in the palace at el Amarna.

MEDIUM Limestone, pigment

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS

Place found: Hermopolis, Egypt
Place made: Tell el-Amarna, Egypt

DATES ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E.

DYNASTY late Dynasty 18

PERIOD New Kingdom, Amarna Period

DIMENSIONS 20 11/16 x 8 7/8 in. (52.5 x 22.5 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

ACCESSION NUMBER 60.197.5

CREDIT LINE Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Limestone relief. In sunk relief, three antelopes running to the right. Of the first figure, only the upper body preserved. Background plain. All figures painted a pale red-brown. Condition: Edges extensively chipped. Top of head of right antelope chipped. Ancient paint is preserved in the dark areas of forehead and ears of the first antelope and also on spots on neck and several spots scattered on both bodies.

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CAPTION Antelopes, ca. 1352–1336 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 20 11/16 x 8 7/8 in. (52.5 x 22.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 60.197.5. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 60.197.5_SL1.jpg)

IMAGE overall, 60.197.5_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

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Download our app and ask your own questions during your visit. Here are some that others have asked.

Are the red markings that highlight the images in the relief put there later or when they were originally made?

So these colors probably represent their skin color?