Head of Amenhotep III Wearing the White Crown

Head of Amenhotep III Wearing the White Crown

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This small-scale head depicts pharaoh Amenhotep III wearing the white crown, adorned with an uraeus. Its facial features identify him as Amenhotep III. The size and the style of the sculpture are reminiscent of the shabtis made for Amenhotep III’s burial in the Valley of Kings (KV 22), however the remains of a back pillar on the rear right side of the crown point towards another purpose. This fragmentary head should rather be related to the small three-dimensional representations of Amenhotep III that were produced in a variety of materials as votive offerings in temples or as cult figures.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.