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Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.
Head of Akhenaten
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.

Head of Akhenaten

Artist Unknown
CultureEgyptian
DateNew Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaton (ca. 1352-1336 B.C.)
MediumLimestone
DimensionsOverall: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
Base: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number77.883
Collections
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 109
DescriptionHead of a pharaoh wearing a round cloth headdress with a uraeus (the reared cobra on the forehead of gods and kings and that protects them). His face is drawn-out with a marked chin, thick lips and heavy eyelids.

Label TextHead of Akhenaten New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten, 1352-1336 B.C.E. Limestone Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 77.883 The round cloth headdress crowned with a ureaus (reared cobra) identifies this fragmentary figure as a pharaoh. The basic shape and style of the head suggests that the pharaoh may be Akhenaten. During his reign, Akhenaten banned virtually all of the Egyptian gods but Aten, the Sun Disk, and he built a new capital, as well as his tomb, at Amarna in Middle Egypt. Given the fragment's small size, could it be the head of a shabty designed to serve the king in the afterlife?
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