Obelisk

This relief sculpture, called the Wilbour Plaque, is an artist’s reference—a sketch in stone that was hung in the workshop by the hole at the top of the stone to be studied and copied by students. The figure on the left is probably Akhenaten, due to his ‘hatchet-faced’ bone structure, and opposite him queen is Nefertiti. Both wear uraeus headdresses bearing the sacred serpent, an emblem of supreme power. read more