Tutankhamun - Forever living

Tutankhamun statue, the forever living king of Egypt.

This colossal statue (originally over five meters tall) is traditionally associated with Tutankhamun, although it seems to have been usurped by his successor Aÿ, before Pharaoh Horemheb reclaimed it in having his name written on it, we learn during the exhibition. The juvenile features of the pharaoh, with his round cheeks and his mouth with full lips, recall the representations of Tutankhamun, because these were taken up, with a few details, by his successors Aÿ and Horemheb. Presenting traditional elements of the image of the king in Egypt (crowns and Chendjyt loincloth), this quartzite colossus was discovered in Medinet Habu (west of present-day Luxor) where it adorned (with a second colossus today in Chicago) the hall of a memorial temple dedicated to Pharaoh Aÿ.

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