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Head of Amun
Head of Amun

Head of Amun

Dateca. 1200 B.C.
Object number51.69
Provenance[Hagop Kevorkian, New York]; partial purchase and partial gift (1/3 of purchase price) from Mr. Kevorkian to Seattle Art Museum/ Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, Seattle, Washington, January 31, 1951
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Images of Immortality, December 2, 1988Published ReferencesHandbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 10 (b&w) Teeter, Emily, Egyptian Art in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1988, no. 5, pp. 10-11 Teeter, Emily, The Egyptian Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, in KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt, Vol. 12, No. 3, Fall 2001, illus. p. 28 (full page) Eaton-Krauss, Marianne. Post-Amarna Period Statues of Amun and His Consorts Mut and Amunet. Leiden: Brill, 2020; p. 94, reproduced fig. 18A-B.
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection and Hagop Kevorkian
Dimensions13 1/16 x 9 1/2 x 10 9/16 in. (33.1 x 24.1 x 26.8 cm)
MediumGranite
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