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Description : New Kingdom, Dynasty XVIII, Reign of Amenhotep I, 1525-1504 B.C. Sculpted in raised relief, preserving the pharaoh's portrait in profile to the right, with characteristic gently-arching brow and a long slender eye with sharply-curving inner canthus, the straight nose with a rounded notch behind the hood of the nostril, and prominently-modelled lips with a semicircular corner of the mouth, depicted wearing a close-fitting headdress adorned with a detailed hooded uraeus, its body undulating upward, the tail continuing straight over the crown of the head, the upper edge of pharaoh's ear visible along the break, preserving some red pigment for fleshtones and for the uraeus 10 1/2 in. (26.6 cm.) long
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About the lot N° 9
Title : Egyptian Limestone Relief Of Amenhotep I, Period : 1525.0
Provenance : with Galerie Samarcande, Paris, 1989.
Literature : DMAGENDA, Vol. 1, No. 3, January/February 1992, cover & p. 2. G.D. Scott, Dynasties: The Egyptian Royal Image in the New Kingdom, San Antonio, 1995, no. 2.
Notes : EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALAN M. MAY For other depictions of Amenhotep I exhibiting similar physiognomy see the limestone relief from Karnak, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fig. 22 in Hayes, The Scepter of Egypt, and another limestone relief, also from Karnak, now in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, no. 32 in Fazzini, et al., Art for Eternity, Masterworks from Ancient Egypt.
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Sale title : Antiquities
Sale date : 11 Dec 2003 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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