Egyptian relief. Senet (chess) game. 22 x 16 cm.

Description

Reproduction of an Egyptian bas-relief made of reconstituted marble (marble powder agglutinated with chronolite). With an ageing patina to give it an antique look. The ageing patinas are applied with natural earth.

Measurements: Width: 22 cm. Height: 16 cm.

The bas-relief reproduces a fresco of Queen Nefertari playing senet, the predecessor of chess. The frescoes date from 1320-1200 BC.

Nefertari Meryetmut was an Egyptian queen of the 19th Dynasty, the Great Royal Wife of Ramesses II the Great (c. 1303 BC – c. 1213 BC), whom she married as a teenager before he was made pharaoh.  As royal wife she developed a brilliant political and religious capacity which she projected into the Egyptian empire.