Head of Amun

ca. 1200 B.C.

Egyptian

Granite

13 1/16 x 9 1/2 x 10 9/16 in. (33.1 x 24.1 x 26.8 cm)

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection and Hagop Kevorkian

51.69

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

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Images of Immortality, December 2, 1988

Published 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.

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