Head of King Amasis

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.

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