Head of a Man with a Shaved Head

Middle Kingdom

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 106

The carefully worked head comes from a small statue that was placed in a tomb or cenotaph or perhaps donated to a temple. It belongs to a group of objects commissioned by members of the middle ranks of Egyptian society, who were able to acquire modestly scaled objects. The eyes and mouth recall sculptures of Pharaoh Amenemhat III, a later Twelfth Dynasty king whose facial features influenced statuary for a considerable period after his reign.

Head of a Man with a Shaved Head, Dense, gray-black hard stone

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Head of a Man with a Shaved Head, Dense, gray-black hard stone
Head of a Man with a Shaved Head, Dense, gray-black hard stone
Head of a Man with a Shaved Head, Dense, gray-black hard stone
Head of a Man with a Shaved Head, Dense, gray-black hard stone
Head of a Man with a Shaved Head, Dense, gray-black hard stone
Head of a Man with a Shaved Head, Dense, gray-black hard stone

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