This painted quartzite statue depicts King Tutankhamun. Despite its state of preservation, the facial features of the king, enhanced with color, preserve a youthful and serene expression.
He wears the Nemes headdress, which was once topped by the double crown and adorned with the frontal uraeus cobra. The rest of his clothing includes a ceremonial beard, broad collar and the traditional pleated kilt.
A dagger with a falcon-headed handle is slipped under his belt, which is decorated with a pattern of broken lines. On the belt buckle, the name of the young king was replaced by that of King Horemheb.
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun, ca. 1332-1323 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 59869
On this day, 8 September 1931, an Australian rules football match between West Adelaide and Port Adelaide was boycotted by a number of Port players because West Adelaide had selected a police officer to play and he was known to have been involved in protecting scabs and breaking pickets in an earlier waterfront strike. The game still went ahead but West Adelaide were heckled and abused and at one point when the ball was kicked into the crowd it came back sliced in two.
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