Head of Sethi I

In this portrait, Sethi I is wearing the blue crown with the uraeus in the center; it is thickly marked by a spiral pattern that evokes the metal studs of the original decoration. A recent study has allowed to approach this head with the fragment of a statue of pharaoh, found in Grottaferrata, and to reconstruct the seated image of the king, dressed in ceremonial dress and recognizable through the cartouche on the dorsal column.