- Museum number
- EA30448
- Description
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Head of a red quartzite(?) figure of Amenhotep III wearing the blue crown.
- Dimensions
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Height: 24 centimetres (object. 41cm with base)
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Weight: 9.80 kilograms
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Width: 20 centimetres (object. 33 cm with base)
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Depth: 16 centimetres (object. 27cm with base)
- Curator's comments
- Published:
W. Seipel, Gott, Mensch, Pharao, Vienna 1992, pp. 262-263 [94].
J Berlandini, in Fs. Leclant, 1993, Vol 1, p. 393.
PM II (2): p. 533 (suggests Ramses II).
C. Ziegler, The Pharaohs, Venice 2002, p. 397 [29].
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1990 24 Mar-10 Jun, Australia, Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Civilization: Ancient Treasures from the British Museum, cat no.25
1990 28 Jun-23 Sep, Australia, Melbourne, Museum of Victoria, Civilization: Ancient Treasures from the British Museum, cat no.25
1990 20 Oct-9 Dec, Japan, Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.51
1991 5 Jan-20 Feb, Japan, Yamaguchi, Prefectural Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.51
1991 9 Mar-7 May, Japan, Osaka, National Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.51
1992 May-Oct, Vienna, Kunstlerhaus, Gott-Mensch-Pharao: Die Entwicklung des Menschenbildes in der altagyptischen Kunst
1998/9 Oct-Jun, South Carolina, The Charleston Museum, Queens Commoners of the New Kingdom
2001 26 Jun-23 Sep, Birmingham Gas Hall, Egypt Revealed
2002 8 Sept-2003 25 May, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Les Pharaons
2003 18 Oct-14 Dec, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2004 17 Jan-28 Mar, Kobe City Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2004 10 Apr-13 Jun, Fukuoka Art Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2004 26 Jun-29 Aug, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2016 8 Mar-12 Jun, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Pharaoh: King of Egypt
2018 7 Jun-16 Sep, Barcelona, La Caixa, Pharaoh: King of Egypt
2018-2019 16 Oct-20 Jan, Madrid, La Caixa, Pharaoh: King of Egypt
2019 19 Feb-25 Aug, Girona, La Caixa, Pharaoh: King of Egypt
- Condition
- fair (incomplete)
- Acquisition date
- 1899
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA30448
- Registration number
- 1899,0313.1
