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Descrizione : B.C., from a life-size figure of the king, wearing the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt with uraeus and beard-straps, his youthful face with dimpled chin, small mouth rounded at the corners, prominent aquiline nose, and wide-set almond-shaped eyes with lids in relief, the tapering eyebrows and cosmetic lines painted in black. Height 18 in. (45.7 cm.). B.C., from a life-size figure of the king, wearing the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt with uraeus and beard-straps, his youthful face with dimpled chin, small mouth rounded at the corners, prominent aquiline nose, and wide-set almond-shaped eyes with lids in relief, the tapering eyebrows and cosmetic lines painted in black. Height 18 in. (45.7 cm.) Formerly on loan to The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1982-1999 Provenance: German private collection The Merrin Gallery, New York, 1982 Published: Antiquities from the Collection of Christos G. Bastis, catalogue of the exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987, no. 3, illus. Bernard V. Bothmer, "Amenhotep I in London and New York, An Iconographical Footnote,'' Pyramid Studies and Other Essays Presented to I. E. S. Edwards, London, 1988, illus. For the sculpture of Amenhotep I (inscribed with his name) in London, the face almost identical to the present example, also see British Museum, Egyptian Sculpture, p. 33, no. 38; also compare Russmann, Egyptian Sculpture, no. 36, an alabaster figure of Amenhotep I as a sphinx. Bothmer (op. cit.) additionally draws our attention to the head in Boston published as Amenhotep I by James F. Romano in "Observations on Early Eighteenth Dynasty Royal Sculpture,'' Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt XIII, 1976, pl. XXVII. See Hayes, Scepter of Egypt, part II, p. 49, a sandstone head of the king in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hayes notes that, "architecture and the allied arts began to flourish again during his reign, and the buildings which he erected, particularly in the temple enclosure of the state god Amun-Re at Karnak, were monuments of great dignity and beauty... A worthy successor of his father [Ahmose], whose program of recovery and whose internal and foreign policies he vigorously carried forward, Amenhotep I appears to have merited well the reputation for greatness which culminated in his being made a tutelary divinity of the Theban necropolis.'' Estimate on Request.
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