Fragmentary Relief of a King
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
The individual represented here wears a wig with stylized, echeloned curls and a diadem with streamers. That he is a king is indicated by the cobra coiled around the diadem and rearing up at his brow.
Although once catalogued as a work of the fifteenth century B.C., the relief was subsequently realized to be a work of Dynasty XXVI, which also produced very elegant and highly finished sculptures both in the round and in relief.
Caption
Fragmentary Relief of a King, ca. 664–525 B.C.E.. Basalt, 2 11/16 × 5 1/2 × 2 in. (6.8 × 13.9 × 5.1 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, 16.237. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Title
Fragmentary Relief of a King
Date
ca. 664–525 B.C.E.
Dynasty
Dynasty 26
Period
Late Period
Geography
Place made: Egypt
Medium
Basalt
Classification
Dimensions
2 11/16 × 5 1/2 × 2 in. (6.8 × 13.9 × 5.1 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
16.237
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