Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Amunhotep II New KingdomEgypt

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 56.7. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 56.7
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Date: ca. 1426–1400 B.C.E.
Date range: 1426 BCE – 1400 BCE
Materials: ['Granite']
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Amunhotep II (56.7). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/19680

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Object Label: The faces on most statues of Amunhotep II differ slightly from those of his two immediate predecessors. Compared with the sculpture of Thutmose III or Hatshepsut exhibited nearby, for example, this statue’s face is a little longer, the eyes somewhat narrower, the brows a bit straighter, the nose slightly thicker, and the mouth less curved. Each change is minute, but together they create a distinctive, recognizable image of Amunhotep II. This face is not a portrait, but an official image conceived by the chief royal sculptors to communicate the ideal physical appearance of Amunhotep II. The Egyptians believed that reality was momentary and thus, within the context of eternity, meaningless. Only an ideal representation would endure forever. Caption: Amunhotep II, ca. 1426–1400 B.C.E.. Granite, 12 1/2 × 9 1/2 × 6 in., 28 lb. (31.8 × 24.1 × 15.2 cm, 12.7kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 56.7.

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Royals Hatshepsut Thutmose III

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 56.7 tier-2
BKM-Object 3621 tier-2

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