Head of King Amasis

ca. 560 BCE (Late Period)

20 cm 31.5 cm 23.5 cm

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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.

Sculpture

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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2
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Saitic
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