Practice Sketch or Votive Offering
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
The elaborate wig, aquiline nose, fastidious indication of fat folds on the neck, and elongated and downward-sloping eye all indicate that the king depicted here was one of the Ramesside rulers of Dynasty XIX or XX. The several discrepancies between the inked lines and the incisions suggest that the piece was a practice sketch for a wall relief or painting, but it may have also served as a temple offering to the king. Around the crown of the head is an intricate circlet consisting of two uraeus cobras affixed to the brow and side. These cobras were insignias of royalty.
Caption
Practice Sketch or Votive Offering, ca. 1295–1070 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 7 3/8 × 6 1/2 in. (18.8 × 16.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.54. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Title
Practice Sketch or Votive Offering
Date
ca. 1295–1070 B.C.E.
Dynasty
Dynasty 19 to Dynasty 20
Period
New Kingdom
Geography
Possible place made: Thebes, Egypt
Medium
Limestone, pigment
Classification
Dimensions
7 3/8 × 6 1/2 in. (18.8 × 16.5 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour
Accession Number
16.54
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