The statue shows the pharaoh of the Middle Kingdom. Unfortunately, the image can not be accurately identified.
The head is made in coarse grained light brown granite. Head decorates festive nemset scarf or hat which led adheres to the rim with uraeus. His face adorns artificial beard that is largely broken off. Despite the usual hieratic display mode, a face has portrait characteristics.
Only the head of the pharaoh is preserved so can not be accurately determinated whether the head belonged to a statue or perhaps sphinx. The dimensions of the head is relatively small so it can be assumed that the head was part of a statue.
Catalogue entry
Head of an unknown Pharaoh Museum Mimara, Zagreb Collection of the Ancient Civilizations Inv. no. ATM 229 Egypt, unknown site Middle Kingdom (c. 2055-c.1650 B.C.). marble: stone processing 15.5 x 15 cm
Resources
Čukman Nikolić, Ivana; Tomorad, Mladen. „Artefacts from Ancient Near East and Egypt in the Collection of Archaeology of the Mimara Museum in Zagreb, Croatia“. U: Tomorad, Mladen (ur.). Research of the history and culture of the Ancient Near East in the Southeast Europe: 1. Croatia - Selected problems. Saarbrücken, 2014: 85-126. 88-89, 102, fig. 7.
Čukman Nikolić, Ivana; Tomorad, Mladen. „The Collection of Egyptian Artifacts in the Mimara Museum in Zagreb (Croatia)“. U: Tomorad, Mladen (ur.). A History of Research into Ancient Egyptian Culture conducted in Southeast Europe. Oxford, 2015: 59-74. 61.
Tomorad, Mladen. „The Egyptian antiquities in Croatia“. PalArch 2, 1 (2005): 1-33. 12.
Tomorad, Mladen. Egipat u Hrvatskoj: egipatske starine u hrvatskoj znanosti i kulturi. Zagreb, 2003. 64, fn. 390, 66, fig. 60.
Tomorad, Mladen. Model računalne obrade i prezentacije staroegipatskih predmeta u muzejskim zbirkama u Hrvatskoj. [Doktorska disertacije, Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu]. Zagreb, 2006. 17, 269-270.
