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.
