\paperw4260 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 This small head, not much more than eight centimeters or three and a quarter inches high, is made of glass paste in two different shad
es of blue. It was probably originally attached to a body, perhaps made of another material.\par
The light blue face and the wig, a darker blue, were made separately by grinding and then attached.\par
The eyes and eyebrows are hollowed out and must ori
ginally have been filled with glass paste or semiprecious stones, which reproduced the color of the iris and the brow ridge in a naturalistic manner. Thus the chromatic effect must have been even more impressive.\par
The smooth groove that runs across t
he hair above the forehead must have contained a headband, perhaps made of precious metal.\par
It has a hole in the middle, which would have been used to attach the uraeus, the cobra that was a symbol of royal authority and an ornament of the pharaohÆs
crown. \par
The personage portrayed, who has the features of an adolescent, may be Tutankhamen. The slanting eyes and elongated and stylized oval face are elements that stylistically follow the art of the Amarna period, the time at which this ruler live
