This granite statue of Amenemhet III comes from part of a collection at the British Museum in London. Amenemhet III ruled as king of Egypt from 1842 to 1797 BC, during Egypt's 12th dynasty. Representative of sculpture from the Middle Kingdom (a period in Egyptian history from the mid-22nd century BC to the mid-17th century BC), the statue of Amenemhet III displays a realism characteristic of the art of the time.