Work Record
Class [controlled]:
• sculpture • murals •
Egyptian art
*Work
Type [link]:
• relief sculpture
*Title:
Relief of Nebhepetra Mentuhotep
*Creator
Display: Egyptian, reign of Nebheptere
Mentuhotep
*Role
[link]: sculptor [link]: Egyptian
*Creation
Date: during or immediately after the reign
of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep (ca. 2040-2010 BCE) [controlled]: •
Earliest: -2050
• Latest: -2000
*Subject
[links]: • religion and mythology •
funerary object • Mentuhotep II •
pharaoh • hieroglyphics •
human figure • male
Style [link]:
Middle Kingdom (Egyptian)
Culture [link]:
Egyptian
*Current
Location [link]: Metropolitan
Museum of Art (New York, New York United States)
• ID:
07.230.2
Creation Location:
mortuary temple of Nebhepetre (Deir el-Bahri, Western
Thebes, Egypt)
*Measurements:
35.9 cm (height) (14 1/8 inches)
[controlled]: • Value:
35.9 Unit:
cm Type: height
*Materials
and Techniques: painted limestone, low
relief carving
Material [links]:
• limestone • paint Technique
[links]: • bas-relief
Inscriptions: In
part, the hieroglyphics include the name Mentuhotep
("Montu [a local Theban god] is satisfied"), enclosed
in the oval-shaped cartouche in front of his face;
his Horus name, Sematawy ("Uniter of the Two Lands
[Upper and Lower Egypt]") is seen at the top of
the rectangular device (a serekh) next to the cartouche.
Description: Mentuhotep
II was the founder of the Middle Kingdom, reuniting
Egypt after the chaotic First Intermediate Period.
This relief comes from his mortuary temple at Deir
el-Bahri in western Thebes. The high standards of
the royal Theban workshops are evident in the delicately
modeled low relief and the finely painted details.
Description Source
[link]: Metropolitan Museum of Art online.
www.metmuseum.org
Page:
accessed 15 December 2006
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