Busts

Amenophis III

Red granite head from a colossal figure of a king
Eighteenth Dynasty, about 1390 BC
From Thebes, Temple of Mut
This enormous head wearing a double crown, and the large arm which is exhibited near-by, both belong to a colossal standing figure, one of a pair, set up before the Temple of Khonspekhrod in he precincts of the Temple of Mut.
The torso of the statue is still in situ. It once bore on its rear an inscription but this was completely destroyed in ancient times. The identity of the king represented is disputed. Recent opinion favours Amenophis III.

Ramesses II
19th Dynasty, about 1270 BC
From the Ramesseum, western Thebes
This is the upper part of a seated statue, one of a pair set up in the king's mortuary temple. The granite is naturally two colours, and was deliberatedly worked to draw a distonction beetween the head and the body. The hole in the chest, which appeared before AD 1817, may have been made by Napoleon's expedition trying to remove the statue.
Granite.
Gift of J.L. Buckhardt and H. Salt, 1818

Perikles
Perikles (died 429 BC) was famous for his public speaking, which enabled him to rule Athens at the height of her empire.
With a military helmet pushed back on the head, Perkles is the model of a citizen soldier.
This idealised image pre sents him as "fair of face and sound of heart"
Roman, 2nd centurt AD copy of a lost Greek original of around 440 - 430 BC
From Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Townley collection.

Quartzite figure of a baboon
Eighteenth Dynasty, about 1400 BC
The crouching baboon was a common manifestation of Thoth, the god of wisdom and writing.
His main cult-center was at Hermopolis Magna in Middle Egypt, where several colossal baboon statues, also of quartzite, were erected by Amenophis III, whose names are incised on the pedestal of this small figure