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Statue of Tutankhamun with the White Crown

14th century BCE

A gilded wooden statuette from the tomb showing Tutankhamun wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt, one of many ritual figures buried with him.

One of several ritual tomb statues of Tutankhamun, shown here wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt.

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Gilded wooden statue of a standing pharaoh wearing a tall white crown with a bulbous top, holding a crook staff in one hand, displayed on a dark plinth in a blue-lit museum with a visitor photographing it behind.
Statue of Tutankhamun wearing the white crown, 18th Dynasty.

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What it is

This gilded wooden statue depicts Tutankhamun standing and wearing the tall white crown of Upper Egypt while holding a crook staff. It was placed among the objects in his tomb and is now displayed in a museum.

Why it matters

Statues like this were part of a set of ritual figures meant to serve and protect the king in the afterlife, each showing him with different crowns and regalia tied to Egyptian kingship and religion. They reveal how closely Egyptian rulers were linked to religious symbols even in death.

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  • Why do you think multiple statues of the king wearing different crowns were placed in his tomb?
  • What does the crook staff suggest about the role the statue was meant to represent?
  • What does the statue not tell us about the king as a real, living person?

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Black and white photograph of a wooden figure wearing a striped royal headdress with a uraeus cobra, crossed arms holding ceremonial objects, and hieroglyphic inscriptions in columns on the lower body.Photograph

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Photograph of Tutankhamun's Shawabti Figure

Harry Burton · 1920s

Interior wall of an Egyptian tomb painted gold, with rows of painted baboon figures and hieroglyphs in boxed panels, a boat scene at top left, and a painted standing figure of a pharaoh at right. A glass display case is visible at the bottom.Artifact

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Tomb of Tutankhamun

14th century BCE

Black and white photograph of two men inside a tomb opening the carved, hieroglyph-covered gilded doors of a shrine. One man in a light cap kneels and reaches toward the doors, while another man in a jacket leans over from the right. Carved relief figures and inscriptions cover the panels.Photograph

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Opening the Doors of the Fourth Shrine in Tutankhamun's Tomb

Harry Burton · 1920s

Photo of the Restoration Stela, a tall round-topped reddish stone stele in a museum with carved relief figures at the top and rows of hieroglyphic text below, with a diagonal crack running through it.Document

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Restoration Stela

Tutankhamun · c. 1326 BCE

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