Relief from the temple of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II

Relief from the temple of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Inside an oval-shaped protective cartouche, which was used only for royal names, is the name Mentuhotep. This is one of the names of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II, the pharaoh who re-unified Egypt at the beginning of the Middle Kingdom. The fragment is carved in raised relief.

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.