Inscribed relief fragment from the shrine of a royal woman within the temple of Mentuhotep II

Inscribed relief fragment from the shrine of a royal woman within the temple of Mentuhotep II

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This piece features part of an inscription in sunk relief. On the underside is part of a cavetto (a finishing element at the upper edge of a wall or door), indicating that this inscription originally sat at the very top of the chapel wall.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Inscribed relief fragment from the shrine of a royal woman within the temple of Mentuhotep IIInscribed relief fragment from the shrine of a royal woman within the temple of Mentuhotep IIInscribed relief fragment from the shrine of a royal woman within the temple of Mentuhotep IIInscribed relief fragment from the shrine of a royal woman within the temple of Mentuhotep IIInscribed relief fragment from the shrine of a royal woman within the temple of Mentuhotep II

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.