Rough stone sculpture of the head of a pharaoh.
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This small sculpture of a pharaoh’s head sits on a black stone base. He stares ahead with a somber expression and wears a braided false beard on his chin. On his head is a cloth crown: it is more structured by his brow, and then is more rounded where it lands on his shoulders. Above his brow on the crown is a rearing cobra, but the stone has worn down to where the details of the cobra are vague. The stone for this piece in general has a rough texture from wear, and much of his nose is gone.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1043
Title
Head of Amenophis IV (Akhenaten)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1353-1336 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Tel el'Amarna (Egypt)
Period
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18
Culture
Egyptian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292090

Physical Descriptions

Medium
red quartzite
Dimensions
7.6 x 6.4 cm (3 x 2 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Brummer Gallery, Inc., New York, by 1933], sold; to Grenville L. Wintrop, New York, (1933-1943), bequest; to the Fogg Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1043
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 256 (checklist).

Verification Level

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