Red granite head from a colossal figure of a king. Eighteenth Dynasty, about 1390 BC. From Thebes, Temple of Mut. This enormous head wearing the double crown, and the large arm which is exhibited near-by both belong to a colossal standing figure, one of a pair, set up before the Temple of Khonspekhrod in the precincts of the Temple of Mut The torso of the statue is still in Situ. It once bore on its rear an inscription but this was completely destroyed in ancient times.
Red granite head from a colossal figure of a king. Eighteenth Dynasty, about 1390 BC. From Thebes, Temple of Mut. This enormous head wearing the double crown, and the large arm which is exhibited near-by both belong to a colossal standing figure, one of a pair, set up before the Temple of Khonspekhrod in the precincts of the Temple of Mut The torso of the statue is still in Situ. It once bore on its rear an inscription but this was completely destroyed in ancient times.
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