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Property from the Collection of Evelyn Annenberg Hall
AN EGYPTIAN GRANITE HEAD FROM A BLOCK STATUE
NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XVIII, REIGN OF AMENHOTEP II, 1427-1401 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN GRANITE HEAD FROM A BLOCK STATUE
NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XVIII, REIGN OF AMENHOTEP II,
1427-1401 B.C.
Wearing a chin beard and a striated wig flaring behind his prominent ears, the convex almond-shaped eyes with extended cosmetic lines and conforming brows, preserving portions of a hieroglyphic inscription to the right of the head, along the proper right shoulder and in two columns along the back reading, "My local god...after me..." and "...she gives stability...[the Great Hall]"
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high
NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XVIII, REIGN OF AMENHOTEP II,
1427-1401 B.C.
Wearing a chin beard and a striated wig flaring behind his prominent ears, the convex almond-shaped eyes with extended cosmetic lines and conforming brows, preserving portions of a hieroglyphic inscription to the right of the head, along the proper right shoulder and in two columns along the back reading, "My local god...after me..." and "...she gives stability...[the Great Hall]"
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Said to be from Thebes.
Lady Meux Collection, London.
with Dikran G. Kelekian Inc., New York.
C. Hartley Collection.
with C. Dikran Kelekian, Ancient Arts, New York, 1964.
Lady Meux Collection, London.
with Dikran G. Kelekian Inc., New York.
C. Hartley Collection.
with C. Dikran Kelekian, Ancient Arts, New York, 1964.
Literature
E.A. Wallis Budge, Some Account of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of Lady Meux, of Theobalds Park, Waltham Cross, London, London, 1896, p. 139, no. 56.