Head of a God

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The style of this head is similar to a statue in the temple of Karnak that depicts Amenhotep II with a god. Both works may have been part of a series of statues representating gods that were commissioned by the king for his jubilee festibal or "heb-sed." The king's grandson, Amenhotep III also commissioned a series of divine statues for his own jubilee. For examples of these, see 19.2.5 and 19.2.15.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art