Amenhotep III: Couples Statue
Updated: May 21, 2022
Date of creation/manufacture: Amenhotep III (-1391 - -1353)
Provenance: KV 22 tomb of Amenhotep III (Valley of the Kings->West Valley)
Link: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010014047
Inventory number Main number: N 2310 Collection Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities
DESCRIPTION
Object name/Title Name: wall painting (fragment)
Description/Features Decoration: king (head, short curly wig, uraeus, false straight
beard, usekh necklace) Condition of the work: head
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Dimensions Height: 25.5cm; Width: 25cm
Materials and techniques Colour: grey-red-black-blue
PLACES AND DATES
Dated Amenhotep III (1391 - 1353)
Origin KV 22 Tomb of Amenhotep III (Valley of the Kings->West
Valley)
HISTORY Collector / Previous owner / The Host, Nestor
Commissioner / Archaeologist /
Dedicatee Acquiring details purchase
Acquisition date date of entry in the inventory: 1842
Owned by state
Held by Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities
LOCATION OF OBJECT
Current location Sully, [AE] Room 637 - The New Empire - From the
reconquest to Amenophis III, Showcase 9
INDEX
Category element of architecture, interior and exterior decor, door frame
Name part of object - fragment - wall painting - architectural decor -
Description/Features body part - character - head - king - man - jewel - fake straight
beard - fake beard - beard - necklace - short curly wig - short wig -
wig - hairstyle- usekh necklace - uraeus
Imaging portrait/character/nude
Period New Kingdom - 18th dynasty - middle 18th dynasty - Amenhotep III
