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Eternal Egypt: Head Statue of a Girl

For Students 9th - 10th
A marble statue head of a girl, it is a part of a statue. The hair style and the diadem are obvious.
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Eternal Egypt: Royal Head

For Students 9th - 10th
A royal head is attributed to one of the statues of the Ptolemaic kings during the third century BC.
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Eternal Egypt: Shaved Head

For Students 9th - 10th
This shaved head is part of the statue of a priest who lived during the Late Period, which was characterized by the start of true realistic portraiture. It shows his heavy eyelids, large nose, full cheeks, and small mouth.
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Eternal Egypt: Head of Ptah

For Students 9th - 10th
The head depicts the god Ptah, the creator god of Memphis the capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom. The head of the god is shaven as usual and covered by a tight-fitting skullcap leaving his ears exposed. The false beard is straight...
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Eternal Egypt: Head of Horus

For Students 9th - 10th
This head of the falcon Horus is wearing a three-part wig and the White Crown. It was probably part of a sculptor's study and not part of a cult statue.
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Eternal Egypt: Head of Osiris

For Students 9th - 10th
In this head of Osiris, the beard entirely covers the chin, a detail that characterizes the portrayals of Osiris that can then be dated to the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and to the reign of Psammetik the First of the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty.
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Eternal Egypt: Head of a Deity

For Students 9th - 10th
The oval face represents a man or perhaps a deity, with a deep hole under the neck, which suggests that the face was once fixed to a post and was probably used in cult ceremonies.
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Eternal Egypt: Head of Serapis

For Students 9th - 10th
The marble head of Serapis is portrayed with his usual features, having long, thick twisted hair, a thick twisted beard, and a long mustache blending with the beard.
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Eternal Egypt: Portrait Statue of Domitia

For Students 9th - 10th
This statue, made of white marble, is a portrait of the Empress Julia Longina (Domitia), wife of Emperor Domitian (AD 81-96). She is portrayed with a full face and aquiline nose.
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Eternal Egypt: Basalt Royal Head

For Students 9th - 10th
A large royal head made of basalt. It wears a headdress that has embossed vertical lines. On the forehead there is the uraeus (royal cobra).
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Eternal Egypt: Head of Akhenaten

For Students 9th - 10th
This statue was once a part of a standing statue depicting King Akhenaten, who made religious and social reforms and changed the Amun-Re cult into that of the Aten.
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Eternal Egypt: Head of Alexander

For Students 9th - 10th
As was the trend at the time it was created, the artist paid special attention to Alexander the Great's face in this sculpture, while other details are less pronounced.
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Eternal Egypt: Head of Nefertiti

For Students 9th - 10th
This is one of the prettiest representations of Queen Nefertiti.
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Eternal Egypt: Quartz Royal Head

For Students 9th - 10th
This head, found in Abu Qir Bay, shows a king wearing the royal headdress called nemes, dominated by the sacred cobra.
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Eternal Egypt: Granite Royal Head

For Students 9th - 10th
This royal head is sculpted in the Pharaonic style. The king is wearing the Khepresh blue war crown, dominated by the uraeus, or sacred cobra.
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Eternal Egypt: Head of Queen Tiye

For Students 9th - 10th
This small head, full of wonderful details, portrays Queen Tiye, wife of Amenhotep the Third and mother of Amenhotep the Fourth.
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Eternal Egypt: Head of Tutankhamun

For Students 9th - 10th
An unusual and appealing small head that is a masterpiece; it was found by Howard Carter at the entrance to King Tutankhamun's tomb. The head is that of the boy pharaoh with very beautiful features, modeled in the Amarna style.
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Eternal Egypt: Octavius Royal Head

For Students 9th - 10th
This royal head shows a king wearing the Egyptian royal headdress called nemes. Below the headdress, curls of his hair fall on his forehead; therefore, it is thought that the statue is that of Octavius, who was known for this...
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Eternal Egypt: Royal Colossal Head

For Students 9th - 10th
This head of a colossal statue depicts a king probably from the late Ramesside period wearing the White Crown of Upper Egypt.
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Eternal Egypt: Head of a Falcon God

For Students 9th - 10th
This exquisite head of the falcon god, Horus, was found below the floor of the main chamber of his temple at Hierakonpolis, north of Edfu.
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Eternal Egypt: Head of King Userkaf

For Students 9th - 10th
This head of King Userkaf was found in the Sun Temple dedicated by the king to the god Re at Abusir and is a striking example of the style marking the beginning of the Fifth Dynasty.
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Eternal Egypt: Head of King Akhenaten

For Students 9th - 10th
This head of King Akhenaten is part of one of his colossi, which came from a temple built by the young king, and dedicated to the god Aten, in Thebes. It was found at Karnak, next to the temple of Amun-Re.
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Eternal Egypt: Marble Head of Serapis

For Students 9th - 10th
The marble head of Serapis portrays his usual features, having long, wavy dense hair, a heavy wavy beard, and a long mustache connected to the beard. This type of portrayal of Serapis belongs to the Roman era.
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Eternal Egypt: Head of Emperor Hadrian

For Students 9th - 10th
A head of the Roman emperor Hadrian, who ruled from A.D. 117 to 138. Only the head and part of the chest remain. The emperor is wearing military uniform and the upper part of his head is crowned with the head of the Gorgon, Medusa.