Mystic statue
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| Bust of Nefertiti | ||||||
| Year | c. 1345 BC | |||||
| Artist | Thutmose | |||||
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Name in other languages
しんぴてきなちょうこく
神秘的雕塑 Sculpture mystérieuse Busto antiguo Statua enigmatica Загадочная статуя
신비로운 조각 神祕的雕塑 Sculpture mystérieuse Busto antiguo Geheimnisbüste Enigmatisch beeld | ||||||
The mystic statue is a statue in the Animal Crossing series introduced in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. It is based on Thutmose's Bust of Nefertiti.
Art details
In New Leaf
In New Leaf, the statue is displayed in the first artwork room, in the southwest quadrant.
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Bust of Nefertiti
Artist: Thutmose
Made around 1345 BC
Limestone
| Museum description | Queen Nefertiti's Ancient Egyptian name means "the beautiful one has come." Her statue lives up to that. |
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| Buy price |  3,920 Bells
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| Sell price | 490 Bells [nb 1]
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| Obtain from |  Redd's Gallery |
| Authenticity | In the forgery, the hat appears spherical. If her hat is cylindrical, it is genuine. |
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In New Horizons
As with all artwork in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the mystic statue was added in the 1.2.0 April Free Update.
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Bust of Nefertiti
Thutmose, circa 1345 BCE
Limestone
| Museum description | A bust of Nefertiti, whose name means "the beautiful one has come." A "royal wife," she was known as one of the three most beautiful women in ancient Egypt. It is not known whether the left eye is missing because it fell out, or because it was never completed. |
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| Buy price | 4,980 Bells
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| Sell price | 1,245 Bells[nb 1]
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| Obtain from | Jolly Redd's Treasure Trawler |
| Authenticity | In the forgery, there is an earring on Nefertiti's right ear. If there is no earring, it is genuine. |
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- ↑ Cannot be sold if it is a forgery.
Gallery
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The fake mystic statue, as it appears in New Horizons
Real-world information
Sculpted by royal sculptor Thurmose circa 1345 BC, this limestone bust features Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. Akhenaten was controversial both in his own time and in the centuries afterwards for his abolishment of Egypt's traditional polytheistic religion, instead replacing it with Atenism, a belief system revolving around the sun disc Aten; theologists vary as to whether Atenism was an early monotheistic faith or if it acknowledged the existence of other deities while only worshiping one. Following Akhenaten's death, a damnatio memoriae was placed on him and the polytheistic faith was restored.
Contrary to her husband's polarizing reputation, the bust of Nefertiti is considered one of the most acclaimed and well-known artifacts from ancient Egypt, becoming symbolic of the country and its history following its 1912 discovery by German Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt in the remains of Thurmose's workshop. Consequently, it has been the subject of a lengthy repatriation dispute that stretched all the way back to its first public exhibition in 1924, with Egyptian officials claiming that the bust was smuggled out of the country to fulfil German colonialist interests. The bust currently remains in German hands, being on permanent display in the Neues Museum in Berlin.
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