ID: 700008625 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008625	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Colossal Head of Akhenaten (sculpture (visual works); unknown Egyptian, New Kingdom; ca. 1350 BCE ; Egyptian Museum (Cairo, Cairo, Egypt))

Note: From the Aten Temple.

Titles:

Colossal Head of Akhenaten (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,N)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

sculpture (visual works) [300047090] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

sculptures (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1350 BCE

Creator Display:

unknown Egyptian, New Kingdom [preferred,VP]

artists unknown New Kingdom (New Kingdom cultural designation) [500203924]

Locations:

Current: Egyptian Museum (Cairo, Cairo, Egypt) [500284802] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Other: Discovery: Term Not Found (TGN Candidate) (Geographic)

Display Materials: limestone

	limestone [300011286]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), sedimentary rock, <sedimentary rock by composition>, carbonate rock)

Dimensions: height: 153 cm (61 inches)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Eighteenth Dynasty (Egyptian) [300020355] (preferred,period)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Early Western World, Mediterranean (Early Western World), Egyptian (ancient), Egyptian periods, New Kingdom (Egyptian))

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

portraits

religion and mythology

Specific Subjects:

	Akhenaten (Ancient Egyptian king, died 1336 BCE) [500121983]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	half-length figures [300047469]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations), <figures by portion represented>) (AAT)

	single-sitter portrait [300404138]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

Related Works:

	architectural context is .... Great Temple of the Aten [700008936]
	..........temple (building); N/A; 14th century BCE; Amarna (Al Minyā, Miṣr, Africa, World, Top of the TGN ...;

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Colossal Head of Akhenaten	........ [VP]
	........ El-Shahawy and Atiya, Egyptian Museum in Cairo (2005)
	........ Virtual Egyptian Museum [online] [n.d.]

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Virtual Egyptian Museum [online] [n.d.]