New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, 1353-1336 B.C. A stone fragment of irregular shape from the upper arm of a royal statue, bearing two engraved partial cartouches containing the so-called 'early protocol name' of the god Aten, indicating that the fragment was once part of a statue of pharaoh Akhenaten or of his wife Nefertiti; the right hand cartouche reading: '[Long live] Re-Horakhty, rejoicing in the horizon' and the cartouche of the left reading: 'in his name of sunlight who is in the solar disk' with traces of original pigment remaining; accompanied by a custom-made display stand. See The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no.21.9.4, for a torso of Nefertiti with Aten cartouches. 88 grams total, 12.8 cm high including stand (5 in.). From the Great Temple of Aten at Tell el-Amarna. Sotheby's 12 August 1978, lot 444 (part). Ex Mohamed Makriya collection. With Sotheby's part lot label '53/9' and inked '444' to the base. Accompanied by an academic report by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy. This form of the solar titular was in use starting from year 4 of Akhenaten, to his late year 11 or early year 12 of his reign.