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Tomb Relief with a Messenger on Horseback

This relief illustrates Horemheb’s military encampment: above, two soldiers watch horses teamed to war chariots as an officer hurries off; below, another officer escorts two water bearers, a messenger on horseback is arriving or departing, and a group of soldiers is carrying a heavy load on their shoulders, a beam or perhaps Horemheb’s rolled-up tent.

The entire scene, which is far removed from the typical rigidity of the models of classical Egyptian art because of its dynamism and the naturalistic rendering of many details, demonstrates that the artistic precepts that had emerged during the reign of Akhenaten survived under his successor Tutankhamun.

New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun, ca. 1332-1323 BC. Limestone, from the Memphite tomb of Horemheb at Saqqara. Now in the Archaeological Civic Museum of Bologna. EG 1889