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Head of King Amasis
Egyptianca. 560 BC (Late Period)
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
King Amasis was the next to last ruler of the 26th Dynasty. The head probably came from a temple statue. He wears the traditional royal nemes head cloth, with a protective uraeus serpent at the brow.
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Details
- Title: Head of King Amasis
- Creator Nationality: Egyptian
- Date Created: ca. 560 BC (Late Period)
- Physical Dimensions: w20 x h31.5 x d23.5 cm
- Type: sculpture; statues
- Rights: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1912, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
- External Link: The Walters Art Museum
- Medium: red quartzite
- Provenance: Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Place of Origin: Memphis, Egypt (?)
- ExhibitionHistory: Artful Deception: The Craft of the Forger. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City; Portland Museum of Art, Portland; The Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester; The Barnum Museum, Bridgeport. 1987-1992; Africa: The Art of a Continent. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. 1996
- Artist: Egyptian
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