Head of Wahibraemakhet

This head and its body have been apart for a long time. The head came to Turin in 1824, and the rest of the statue, a kneeling man, is in the British Museum in London, numbered EA 37892. The museum shows the head on a cast of that body, so that the figure can be seen whole, kneeling, with a small figure on a pedestal held in front of him.

His name, Wahibraemakhet, is built on a king's name, Wahibre. It was the throne name of Psamtik I, the founder of the 26th Dynasty, and the personal name of Apries, whom the Greeks called by a form of the same word. Names containing the ruler's were popular in this dynasty, and they are often read as a declaration of loyalty to the crown. The museum dates the statue to the reign of Apries, from 589 to 570 BC.

The face is smooth and calm under a rounded wig, and down the back pillar behind the head runs a column of hieroglyphs.