Description
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.



Head of King Amasis
Conservation
Date | Description | Narrative |
---|---|---|
5/15/1963 | Treatment | other; cleaned |
5/15/1963 | Treatment | cleaned; mounted |
7/14/1967 | Treatment | cleaned |
4/26/1996 | Loan Consideration | examined for loan |
10/07/1996 | Examination | examined for condition |
10/07/1996 | Treatment | cleaned; loss compensation |
10/15/1998 | Examination | survey |
Exhibitions
- 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.
Provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1912
Creator
- Egyptian (Artist)
Period
ca. 560 BCE (Late Period)Accession Number
22.415Measurements
12 3/8 x 7 7/8 x 9 1/4 in. (31.5 x 20 x 23.5 cm)Geographies
- Egypt, Memphis (Place of Origin)