Relief preserving part of a scene with King Mentuhotep and Queen Neferu

Relief preserving part of a scene with King Mentuhotep and Queen Neferu

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

These fragments from Queen Neferu’s tomb come from a scene showing Mentuhotep II and his sister-wife standing together and holding hands under a large, winged sun disk. For other reliefs from the tomb of Neferu, see 31.3.1 and 26.3.353*.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Relief preserving part of a scene with King Mentuhotep and Queen NeferuRelief preserving part of a scene with King Mentuhotep and Queen NeferuRelief preserving part of a scene with King Mentuhotep and Queen NeferuRelief preserving part of a scene with King Mentuhotep and Queen NeferuRelief preserving part of a scene with King Mentuhotep and Queen Neferu

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.