Statue / head / pharaoh

Description

Statue head in red granite of a pharaoh, probably Amenhotep III, broken off below the chin: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Themes, Probably Kom el-Hettan, 18th Dynasty, c.1390-1352 BC

Museum reference

A.1910.81

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Statue / head / pharaoh

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

18th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Granite

Physical description

Granite, red

Collection place(s)

Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Tutankhamun

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

PM II/2, 533.

Vandier, Manuel, iii, pp. 320 n. 2, 632.

Hall, E. S. in Apollo lxxxvii [73] (March 1968), 168 fig. 13.

Ertman, Earl, 'Some Probable Representations of Ay' in L'Egyptologie en 1979: Axes prioritaires de recherches, vol. II, pp. 246[bottom]-246.

Ertman, Earl, 'Some Probable Representations of Ay' in Gottinger Miszellen 51 (1981), p. 54.

Sofia in (1983) in H. De Meulenaere, L. Limme (éd.), Artibus Aegypti. Studia in honorem Bernardi V. Bothmer a collegis amicis discipulis (Festschrift Bothmer), pp. 149-150.

On display

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