Fragmentary Relief of a King
ca. 664-525 B.C.E.
Maker Unknown
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
The individual represented here wears a wig with stylized, echeloned curls and a diadem with streamers. That he is a king is indicated by the cobra coiled around the diadem and rearing up at his brow.
Although once catalogued as a work of the fifteenth century B.C., the relief was subsequently realized to be a work of Dynasty XXVI, which also produced very elegant and highly finished sculptures both in the round and in relief.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- Basalt
- Medium
- basalt
- Locations
- Place made: Egypt
- Dynasty
- Dynasty 26
- Period
- Late Period
- Dimensions
- 2 11/16 × 5 1/2 × 2 in. (6.8 × 13.9 × 5.1 cm)
- Accession Number
- 16.237
- Credit Line
- Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour
- Exhibitions
- Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Ancient Egyptian Art
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
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