Head of Sethi I
Type:
Sculpture
Year:
New Kingdom, Dynasty XIX, Sethi I (1289-1278 B.C.)
Material and technique:
Black granite
Inventory:
Inv. MB 21
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.
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FUNERARY RELIEFS
Nearly all the reliefs in the Barracco Museum’s collection belong to the funerary sphere.
They come from a type of tomb, the mastaba (from the Arabic word for bench), which was especially characteristic of Old Kingdom necropolises.
