Figure of Ramesses II From a Group Statue

ca. 1250 BCE (New Kingdom, 19th dynasty, reign of Ramesses II)

14 cm 44.5 cm 9.5 cm

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King Ramesses II wears a headdress combining the royal nemes head cloth, with the double-crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. Note the king's royal beard, considered to be an attribute of the gods. Kings wore false beards (held in place by a cord) to portray themselves as living go...

Sculpture

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as from Upper Egypt]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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Ramesside
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