Editing Mystic statue

{{Infobox Art
|name = mystic statue
|ja-name = しんぴてきなちょうこく
|ko-name = 신비로운 조각
|zh-name = 神秘的雕塑
|zht-name = 神祕的雕塑
|fr-name = Sculpture mystérieuse
|it-name = Statua enigmatica
|es-name = Busto antiguo
|de-name = Geheimnisbüste
|nl-name = Enigmatisch beeld
|ru-name = Загадочная статуя
|image = Mystic Statue NH Icon.png
|imagesize = 128px
|caption = The mystic statue in {{NH|nolink}}
|real name = {{Wp|Bust of Nefertiti}}
|artist = {{Wp|Thutmose (sculptor)|Thutmose}}
|year = c. 1345 BC
}}
The '''mystic statue''' is a [[art|statue]] in the {{SER}} introduced in {{NL}}. It is based on {{Wp|Thutmose (sculptor)|Thutmose}}'s ''{{Wp|Bust of Nefertiti}}''.

==Art details==
===In {{NL|short|nolink}}===
{{Main|Item:Mystic statue (New Leaf)}}
{{See also|Item:Mystic statue (fake) (New Leaf)}}
In {{NL|short|nolink}}, the statue is displayed in the first artwork room, in the southwest quadrant.
{{NLArtInfo
| image = Mystic Statue (New Leaf).png
| fake-image = Fake Mystic Statue (New Leaf).png
| art-name = Bust of Nefertiti
| author = Thutmose
| year = Made around 1345 BC
| art-style = Limestone
| art-type = Statue
| description = Queen Nefertiti's Ancient Egyptian name means "the beautiful one has come." Her statue lives up to that.
| buy-price = 3,920
| sell-price = 490
| availability = Redd's Gallery
| authenticity = In the forgery, the hat appears spherical. If her hat is cylindrical, it is genuine.
| art-width = 1.0
| art-length = 1.0
}}
{{Note list}}

===In {{NH|short|nolink}}===
{{Main|Item:Mystic statue (New Horizons)}}
{{See also|Item:Mystic statue (fake) (New Horizons)}}
As with all artwork in {{NH}}, the mystic statue was added in the {{NHVer|1.2.0|full}}.
{{NHArtInfo
| image = Mystic Statue NH Icon.png
| fake-image = Mystic Statue (Fake) NH Icon.png
| art-name = Bust of Nefertiti
| author = Thutmose
| year = circa 1345 BCE
| art-style = Limestone
| 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.
| buy-price  = 4980
| sell-price  = 1245
| art-type = Statue
| authenticity = In the forgery, there is an earring on Nefertiti's right ear. If there is no earring, it is genuine.
| availability  = Jolly Redd's Treasure Trawler
| art-width = 1.0
| art-length = 1.0
}}
{{Note list}}

==Gallery==
===Screenshots===
<gallery>
NH Mystic Statue.jpg|The genuine mystic statue in {{NH|short}}
NH Mystic Statue Fake.png|The fake mystic statue in {{NH|short|nolink}}
</gallery>

===Icons===
<gallery class=sprite>
Mystic Statue HHD Icon.png|Mystic statue<br><small>({{HHD}})</small>
Mystic Statue? HHD Icon.png|Mystic statue?<br><small>({{HHD|nolink}})</small>
</gallery>

==Real-world information==
[[File:Bust of Nefertiti.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''Bust of Nefertiti'']]
Sculpted by royal sculptor Thurmose circa 1345 BC, this limestone bust features {{wp|Nefertiti|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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