Colossal Granite Head of Amenhotep III at The British Museum, London

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    Colossal Granite Head of Amenhotep III at The British Museum, London image
    Colossal Granite Head of Amenhotep III at The British Museum, London image
    Colossal Granite Head of Amenhotep III at The British Museum, London image
    Colossal Granite Head of Amenhotep III at The British Museum, London image
    Colossal Granite Head of Amenhotep III at The British Museum, London image
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    King Amenhotep III (1390-1352 BC) commissioned a large number of statues of himself in Thebes, mostly for his mortuary temple on the west bank of the Nile. This colossal head was found in the Temple of Mut, the consort of the principal god Amun. The temple is just to the south-east of the Temple of Karnak.

    Royal statues in Egypt were sometimes usurped (taken over) by later rulers. The normal procedure was simply to re-carve their name over the old one, but in some cases the physical features were also altered. Ramesses II (1279-1213 BC) seems to have altered a number of statues of Amenhotep III in this way, presumably because he wished to represent his ideal image in a certain form. In this statue, Ramesses seems to have concentrated on changing the characteristic thick lips of the older statuary to thinner ones. In other cases he took to reducing the plump stomach areas of Amenhotep's statues to make them closer to his ideal of the physical shape of the king.

     

    The statue wears the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.

     

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    Date published 08/12/2014
    Tempo per farlo 400 - 500 Minuti
    Quantità di filamento 53g
    Dimensioni 50.7 x 64.94 x 130.00
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    Title Colossal Granite Head of Amenhotep III
    Date 1370BC (c.)
    Dimension Height: 290 centimetres Weight: 3600 kilograms (estimate)
    Accession EA15
    Period 18th Dynasty
    Medium red granite
    Record http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=111425&partId=1&searchText=+Amenhotep+III&lookup-people=e.g.+Hokusai,+Ramesses&people=&lookup-place=e.g.+India,+Shanghai,+Thebes&place=&from=ad&fromDate=&to=ad&toDate=&lookup-object=e.g.+bowl,+hanging+scroll,+print&object=&lookup-subject=e.g.+farming,+New+Testament&subject=&sortBy=imageName&page=1
    Place British Museum
    Object Parts
    Red Granite Head Of A King 1.Stl
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    egyptian head highdetail king sculpture Amenhotep
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