La statua di Sethi I da Grottaferrata

A royal head in the Museo Barracco of Rome (inv. MB 21) is ascribed to the statue of Sethi I found in the Savelli castle of Borghetto, whose lower part is in the Museo dell'Abbazia Greca of Grottaferrata. The image has been reconstructed by analogy with the Ramses II statue in the Museo Egizio of Turin (inv. 1380). It has been verified that the two fragments belong to a statue similar to that in Turin and they can belong to the same sculpture because of their proportions; the inscription on the back pillar has the same epigraphic features, also the stone is the same one. The head joined the Barracco collection in the 1908, when it was found in Borghetto and it was lost in the antique market. The statue was probably carried from Heliopolis to Italy in the time of Domitian.