Akhenaten Tapestries

The Aten is the disk of the sun in Egyptian mythology, considered the only god and creator of the universe during Akhenaten rule.

Stylized profile of Queen Nefertiti, in simulated gold tones. One of the most famous personalities of Ancient Egypt.

This design is based of a talatat from Amarna in Ancient Egypt. Amarna was an 18th Dynasty city established by one of the most notorious pharaohs, Akhenaten. A talatat was a standardized piece of limestone that was used for construction and often decorated in beautiful imagery, sometimes relating to the worship of the Aten. Here the talatat represented a field of ripe barley, swaying in the breeze. I've recreated this as a block print and printed it by hand in before scanning it.