Plaster face of an elder

This plaster face of an elderly face was discovered in Tell el-Amarna, the location of king Akhenaten’s experimental capital city of Akhetaten. Within this city was discovered a workshop belonging to the “king’s favourite” sculptor, a man by the name of Thutmose. It was of the remnants of this workshop where the world-famous, objectively breathtaking archaeological discovery of the bust of Nefertiti was discovered. However, also within the remnants of the workshop were multiple pieces of both recognisable royalty and non recognisable faces. Many of these faces were made of plaster, thought to possibly even be cast from the actual faces.

This face of an elderly face was acquired by the British Museum in 1958, and they describe it as a plaster cast. Unfortunately, this piece is not currently on display, and little else is known about this piece other than it being discovered within Tel el-Amarna.

The majority of the plaster faces from the workshop of Thutmose are currently on display in Berlin.