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Head of Amenhotep III Wearing the Round Wig

c. 1391–1353 BC

Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, 1391-1353 BC

Brown quartzite

Overall: 17.3 x 17 x 25.3 cm (6 13/16 x 6 11/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1961.417

Location

107 Egyptian

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Amenhotep wears a chin strap that would have held up a false beard.

Description

Although he must have been nearly 50 years old when this portrait was carved, Amenhotep III appears more youthful than ever. Over a round, curly wig he wears a diadem with side streamers adorned with cobras bearing sun disks on their heads. The stone quartzite was associated with the sun on account of its ruddy hues, ranging in color from brown to red to purple. It was a favorite of Amenhotep III, the king who called himself the "dazzling sun-disk of all lands."

Provenance

?-1961

Mrs. Paul Mallon, New York, Sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art.

1961-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review 1962." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 9 (1962). No. 86, illus. p. 220 www.jstor.org

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter. Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963. p. 9, pl. 9 archive.org

Cooney, John D. "Amarna Art in the Cleveland Museum." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 1 (1968) pp. 1-17, figs. 1, 4, 5 www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 3 archive.org

Hall, Emma Swan, "Some Ancient Egyptian Sculpture in American museums," Apollo: A Journal of the Arts 77 (July 1968). p. 15, fig. 17

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 3 archive.org

Kozloff, Arielle P. "Nefertiti, Beloved of the Living Disk." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 9 (November 1977) p. 290, fig. 4 www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 14 archive.org

Kozloff, Arielle P. "Guessing the Unseen from the Seen." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 9 (December 1979) p. 336, fig. 7 www.jstor.org

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Arielle P. Kozloff. An Introduction to the Art of Egypt in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: [The Museum], 1970. p. 8

Kozloff, Arielle P. "Most Beautiful Youth Who Ever Happened." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 1 (Jan. 1984) p. 21, fig. 17 www.jstor.org

Kozloff, Arielle P. "The Egyptian Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art," American Research Center in Egypt. Newsletter 125 (Spring 1984). p. 8

Vandersleyen, Claude. "Les Deux Jeunesses d'Amenhotep III," Bulletin de la Société française d'égyptologie 111 (1988). p. 24, fig. 15

Berman, Lawrence Michael. The Art of Amenhotep III: Art Historical Analysis : Papers Presented at the International Symposium Held at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 20-21 November 1987. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1990. pl. 24, fig. 20

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 4 archive.org

KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 3, no. 2 (Summer 1992). Cover and p. 16

Kozloff, Arielle P. and Betsy M. Bryan. "Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World," Minerva. 3, no. 4 (July/August 1992). p. 25, fig. 10

Delange, Elisabeth. "Introduction," Connaissance des arts. Special Issue 36 (1993). p. 5, fig. 3

Jean-Michel Charbonnier, "Idoles et colosses de pierre," Beaux-Arts Magazine, special issue (February 1993). p. 36

Bianchi, Robert Steven. "Amenophis III: Le Pharaon Soleil," Archéologia 288 (March 1993). p. 20

Berman, Lawrence M. "La Collection Egyptienne du Cleveland Museum of Art," Bulletin de la Société française d'égyptologie. 134 (October 1995). p. 25, fig. 6

Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Mentioned: p. 225-226; Reproduced: p. 225-226, Color: p. 53

Gleisser, Benjamin, "Mystery of the Nile," Northern Ohio Live (September 1999). p. 27

Freed, Rita E., and Hans D. Schneider. Farao's van de zon: Achnaton, Nefertiti, Toetanchamon : Rijkmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, 3. 11. 2000-18. 02. 2001= Pharaohs of the sun : Akenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen. Heidelberg, Germany: Vernissage-Verlag GmbH & Co KG, 2000. pp. 42 & 203, cat. no. 8, fig. 23

May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. no. 5, p. 10

Ziegler, Christiane, and G. A. Gaballa. The Pharaohs. Milan: Bompiani, 2002. no. 5, p. 116 & 148

Bothmer, Bernard V., Madeleine E. Cody, Paul Edmund Stanwick, and Marsha Hill. Egyptian Art: Selected Writings of Bernard V. Bothmer. 2004. p. 454

Exhibition history

The Role of the Museum in Cleveland's Life, East Ohio Gas Company, Cleveland, OH (18 March-1 April 1963)

Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962).

Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 1-September 27, 1992); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (October 24, 1992-January 31, 1993); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (March 2-May 31, 1993).

Pharoahs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (organizer) (November 14, 1999-February 6, 2000); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (March 10-May 29, 2000); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (July 1-September 24, 2000); Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, 2301 EC Leiden, Netherlands (November 3, 2000-February 18, 2001).

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Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, 1391-1353 BC

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