Relief fragment with the Son of Re name of Amenemhat I

Relief fragment with the Son of Re name of Amenemhat I

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Preserved on this block from the pyramid temple of Amenemhat I is the epithet "son of Re" and the top of a cartouche containing one of the names of the king. Still visible are the tops of a reed leaf and a game board, the hieroglyphs that spell the beginning of the name Amun. This god was honored in the king's name, Amenemhat (meaning, perhaps, Amun-is-in-the-front).

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Relief fragment with the Son of Re name of Amenemhat IRelief fragment with the Son of Re name of Amenemhat IRelief fragment with the Son of Re name of Amenemhat IRelief fragment with the Son of Re name of Amenemhat IRelief fragment with the Son of Re name of Amenemhat I

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.