Relief fragment of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep

Relief fragment of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Preserved are parts of the king’s upper body and left arm as well as the round tip of the mace scepter in his right hand. A goddess embraces him; her two hands still visible on his torso and shoulder. In front, the tip of a vertically positioned cartouche is just preserved, and above hovered a winged sun disk adorned by cobras with ankh (life) symbols slung over their bodies. One of these cobras reaches out to the king so that the ankh almost touches his face.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.