Seated Statue of the Nomarch Idu II of Dendera

Seated Statue of the Nomarch Idu II of Dendera

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Discovered in his mastaba tomb at Dendera, this statue represents the nomarch (governor) of a province of Upper Egypt during the late Old Kingdom. This man, Idu II, wielded considerable power during the long reign of Pepi II, the last king of Dynasty 6. Created by a provincial artist, the figure has very large eyes and somewhat unconventional proportions, and is seated on a high-backed chair instead of the more common block seat. He wears a shoulder-length curled wig and a short kilt adorned by a beaded apron, indicated by a triangle on the front of the skirt. Traces of the original color — black for the wig and chair, red for the skin, and white for the kilt, are still visible. Since only fragments of the statues buried in the tomb of Perneb have been preserved (see 14.7.105-.107), this statue of Idu II is displayed in Perneb's serdab (statue chamber). Link to the Artist Project Sarah Sze on the Tomb of Perneb

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.