Head of a Statue of Tutankhamen (?) with the "Blue Crown"
(Ancient Egypt and Nubia )
This head may have once been part of a group sculpture that showed King Tutankhamen (?) being crowned by Amen. If so, the sculpture would have been commissioned to commemorate the king's coronation.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [from Luxor (?)] [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Conservation
Date | Description | Narrative |
---|---|---|
10/20/1998 | Examination | survey |
8/19/1999 | Treatment | cleaned |
Geographies
Egypt (Thebes) (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 7 1/16 x W: 4 1/8 x D: 5 7/16 in. (18 x 10.5 x 13.8 cm);
Mount H: 4 1/2 x W: 4 1/8 x D: 4 3/16 in. (11.5 x 10.5 x 10.7 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1912
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
22.222