By Jacqueline Engel
During the 1960’s Polish excavations at the Temple of Thutmose III, a chipped off face of the king was discovered, the face was broken off in antiquity.
The torso of the statue was discovered in the early twentieth century during excavations conducted by Edouard Naville at the mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II at Deir el-Bahri.
It was then placed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
In the 1990’s the Metropolitan Museum made this cast of the torso to be displayed with the face while a cast of the face was sent to the Metropolitan Museum and is now displayed with the torso.
18th dynasty
From Deir el-Bahri
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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