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Object Number:E16199
Current Location: Egypt (Mummies Gallery)
Currently On Display
Provenience: Egypt
Tanis
Period: Third Intermediate Period
Twenty-Second Dynasty
Date Made: 874-835 BCE
Early Date: -874
Late Date: -835
Section:Egyptian
Materials:Diorite
Porphyry
Technique:Inlaid (uncertain)
Iconography:Osorkon II
Height: 33 cm
Width: 30.8 cm
Depth: 0 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from D. G. Kelekian, 1926
Other Number:0324 - Cast Number

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.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Upper Egyptian Gallery (2006) View Objects in Exhibition
Searching for Ancient Egypt: (1997 - 1997) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Silverman, David P. 1997. Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum.. Cornell University Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 106-107View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Horne, Lee C. 1985. Introduction to the Collections of The University Museum.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 25/17View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Mysliwiec, Karol. Royal Portraiture of The Dynasties XXI-XXX.. Mainz am Rhein. Verlag Philipp von Zabern. Actual CitationView Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] 1960. Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period 700 B.C to A.D 100.. New York. Brooklyn Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 2View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Ranke, Hermann. 1950. "A Guide to the Egyptian Collections". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 15. no. 2-3. pg. 21-109 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: CoverView Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Sourouzian, Hourig. 2020. Recherches sur la statuaire royale de la XIXe dynastie.. Cairo. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 481View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] 2020. Memphis in der Dritten Zwischenzeit. Eine Studie zur (Selbst-)Reprasentation von Eliten in der 21. und 22. Dynastie.. Hamburg. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 471, Anm. 2319View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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