id: 136942 accession number: 1961.417 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.417 updated: 2022-03-03 10:00:24.167000 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1961.417 title: Head of Amenhotep III Wearing the Round Wig title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1391–1353 BC creation date earliest: -1391 creation date latest: -1353 current location: 107 Egyptian creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, 1391-1353 BC technique: brown quartzite department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Egypt - New Kingdom type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 17.3 x 17 x 25.3 cm (6 13/16 x 6 11/16 x 9 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - 1962 opening date: 1962-10-24T04:00:00 Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). title: Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World opening date: 1992-07-01T04:00:00 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). title: Pharoahs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen opening date: 1999-11-14T00:00:00 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Role of the Museum in Cleveland's Life, East Ohio Gas Company, Cleveland, OH (18 March-1 April 1963) --- PROVENANCE Mrs. Paul Mallon, New York, Sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art. date: ?-1961 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1961- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Amenhotep wears a chin strap that would have held up a false beard. digital description: wall 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." --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review 1962." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 9 (1962). page number: No. 86, illus. p. 220 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151915 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter. Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963. page number: p. 9, pl. 9 url: https://archive.org/details/EgyptianArt_80670/page/n11 Cooney, John D. "Amarna Art in the Cleveland Museum." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 1 (1968) page number: pp. 1-17, figs. 1, 4, 5 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152189 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 3 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n27 Hall, Emma Swan, "Some Ancient Egyptian Sculpture in American museums," Apollo: A Journal of the Arts 77 (July 1968). page number: p. 15, fig. 17 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 3 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n25 Kozloff, Arielle P. "Nefertiti, Beloved of the Living Disk." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 9 (November 1977) page number: p. 290, fig. 4 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159548 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 14 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n34 Kozloff, Arielle P. "Guessing the Unseen from the Seen." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 9 (December 1979) page number: p. 336, fig. 7 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159651 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. page number: p. 8 url: Kozloff, Arielle P. "Most Beautiful Youth Who Ever Happened." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 1 (Jan. 1984) page number: p. 21, fig. 17 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159844 Kozloff, Arielle P. "The Egyptian Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art," American Research Center in Egypt. Newsletter 125 (Spring 1984). page number: p. 8 url: Vandersleyen, Claude. "Les Deux Jeunesses d'Amenhotep III," Bulletin de la Société française d'égyptologie 111 (1988). page number: p. 24, fig. 15 url: 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. page number: pl. 24, fig. 20 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 4 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n20 KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt 3, no. 2 (Summer 1992). page number: Cover and p. 16 url: Kozloff, Arielle P. and Betsy M. Bryan. "Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World," Minerva. 3, no. 4 (July/August 1992). page number: p. 25, fig. 10 url: Delange, Elisabeth. "Introduction," Connaissance des arts. Special Issue 36 (1993). page number: p. 5, fig. 3 url: Jean-Michel Charbonnier, "Idoles et colosses de pierre," Beaux-Arts Magazine, special issue (February 1993). page number: p. 36 url: Bianchi, Robert Steven. "Amenophis III: Le Pharaon Soleil," Archéologia 288 (March 1993). page number: p. 20 url: Berman, Lawrence M. "La Collection Egyptienne du Cleveland Museum of Art," Bulletin de la Société française d'égyptologie. 134 (October 1995). page number: p. 25, fig. 6 url: Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 page number: Mentioned: p. 225-226; Reproduced: p. 225-226, Color: p. 53 url: Gleisser, Benjamin, "Mystery of the Nile," Northern Ohio Live (September 1999). page number: p. 27 url: 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. page number: pp. 42 & 203, cat. no. 8, fig. 23 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: no. 5, p. 10 url: Ziegler, Christiane, and G. A. Gaballa. The Pharaohs. Milan: Bompiani, 2002. page number: no. 5, p. 116 & 148 url: Bothmer, Bernard V., Madeleine E. Cody, Paul Edmund Stanwick, and Marsha Hill. Egyptian Art: Selected Writings of Bernard V. Bothmer. 2004. page number: p. 454 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.417/1961.417_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.417/1961.417_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.417/1961.417_full.tif