Statue Fragment
Object Number:
E16199
Current Location:
Egypt (Mummies) Gallery
Provenience:
Egypt
Tanis
Period:
Third Intermediate Period
Twenty-Second Dynasty
Date Made:
874-835 BC
Early Date:
-874
Late Date:
-835
Section:
Egyptian
Materials:
Diorite
Porphyry
Technique:
Inlaid (uncertain)
Iconography:
Osorkon II
Description:
Head from a statue of Osorkon II. The king wears a nemes headdress whose uraeus is now lost. The eyes may have originally been inlayed. The body of this statue is housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Height:
33cm
Width:
30.8cm
Other Number:
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Searching for Ancient Egypt: (1997 - 1997)
Bibliography:
[Book] Silverman, David P. 1997. Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: 106-107
[Book] Horne, Lee C. 1985. Introduction to the Collections of The University Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: 25/17
[Book] Mysliwiec, Karol. Royal Portraiture of The Dynasties XXI-XXX.
[Book] 1960. Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period 700 B.C to A.D 100. : Page/Fig./Plate: 2
[Book] Ranke, Hermann. 1950. The Egyptian Collections of the University Museum. 60. : Page/Fig./Plate: Cover
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