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    • Head of Amenhotep II, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep II, ca. 1427–1400 b.c.
    Egyptian
    Black granite; H. 7 1/2 in. (19 cm)
    Purchase, Fletcher Fund and The Guide Foundation Inc. Gift, 1966 (66.99.20)

    Amenhotep II, sixth king of Dynasty 18, was the son and coregent of Thutmose III. He was buried in Tomb 35 of the Valley of the Kings at Thebes, where his mummy was found still resting in its original sarcophagus. His principal activities as king were to preserve the hegemony over most of Nubia and the Levant that the military campaigns of Thutmose III had established.

    This finely sculpted head of the king shows him wearing a nemes headcloth with a prominent uraeus on the front. The body of the snake undulates up and over the top of the nemes. The fine features of the face show the king as youthful and he notes his accomplishments as a huntsman, charioteer, and archer on several of his monuments.

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  • Fischer, Henry George. "The Gallatin Egyptian Collection." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 25, no. 7 (March, 1967).
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    • Head of Amenhotep II, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep II, ca. 1427–1400 B.C.
    Egyptian
    Black granite; H. 7 1/2 in. (19 cm)
    Purchase, Fletcher Fund and The Guide Foundation Inc. Gift, 1966 (66.99.20)

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