Head of a woman
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Head of a woman surrounding with a placed hairdressing consist of two pieces of blackened wood, inlaid with gold.
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Gallery number: N/A
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: 12th Dynasty
Place of discovery: El-Lisht
Size: N/A
Material: Wood, Gold
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Painted Limestone Funerary Stela of Amenemhat with His Wife Iy, and Intef and his wife Hepyt.
Painted Limestone Funerary Stela of Amenemhat with His Wife Iy, and Intef and his wife Hepyt.
Artefact Details
Gallery number: 21 – Ground Floor
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: 11th Dynasty (ca. 2125–1985 BC)
Place of discovery: Asasif, Excavated by A. Lansing for the MMA (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) in 1915
Size: Height: 30 cm, width: 50 cm
Material: Painted Limestone
Rectangular funerary stela with four people. Three on a bench at left, female and male, with beard, embracing another male, who is placed between them. The name Intef between the men faces the same direction as the bearded man. To the right of this group is an offering table with foodstuffs and jars beneath. Another female inscribed as “his sister Hepyt « stands to the right of the table. Both males wear white kilts and green collars and bracelets, have short wigs and one on right with beard. The women wear white sheath dresses and green collars, bracelets and anklets. Male skin tone red/brown, female yellow/beige. Mirror in fitted case under the chair of woman on left. Offering prayer inscribed above in green.
Block statue of Hetep
Limestone Block Statue of Hetep
Artefact Details
Gallery number: 22 – Ground Floor
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: 12th Dynasty (ca. 1985–1773 BC)
Place of discovery: Saqqara, Excavated by C. Firth for the EAS (Egyptian Antiquities Service) in 1921
Size: Height: 110cm, width: 63 cm, Depth: 96 cm
Material: Limestone
The genre known as block statues originated during the Middle Kingdom and became increasingly popular in subsequent periods. This example is one of two commissioned by Hetep, each virtually identical but one was sculpted in limestone (this example) and the other in granite. The reason for the style is unclear: it may have been simply a way to produce a required image at minimal time and cost. Hetep is represented as sitting in a sedan chair, the type that was carried by means of poles attached for several men to lift and carry. Passengers would sit on a cushion and bend the legs, as the litters were not designed to stretch out the legs. The poles are eliminated here but the curved back is portrayed. Hetep’s arms are modeled in high relief, crossed over at the top of the block. His legs, also in high relief, emerge from the block at front and his feet rest on the bottom of the chair. He wears a flaring wig that shows his ears, and a false beard of formality. The ears are large and the eyes wide open and wide set, in keeping with the style of the time. His nose and mouth are damaged. The inscriptions that are carved vertically on the front sides of the chair and continue at the base give his name and titles and the offering prayer.
Seated statue of Queen Nofret
Granodiorite Seated Statue of Queen Nofret, wife of Senusert II, in Hathor Wig
Artefact Details
Gallery number: 26 – Ground Floor
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: 12th Dynasty (ca. 1985–1773 BC)
Place of discovery: San el-Hagar, Excavated by A. Mariette for the EAS (Egyptian Antiquities Service) in 1860
Size: Height: 165cm, width: 54 cm
Material: Granodiorite
Nofret, queen of Senwosret II, on a low backed seat. Her left arm is bent at the elbow, reaching across to touch her right arm just below the bicep. Her right hand is flat on her thigh. She wears a sheath dress, a pectoral bearing the name Khakheperre (Senwosret II), and a heavy “Hathor” wig with uraeus. Her nose is broken off. Her proper left upper arm, proper right lower arm, stomach, and the lower part of the statue, from mid-shin down, has been reconstructed, based on an almost identical statue of the queen (CG 382). There are vertical columns of hieroglyphs inscribed on the front of the throne, flanking the queen’s legs. Although most of these texts are missing, they would have given Nofret’s name and titles.
Sarcophagus of Dagi decorated with paintings and reliefs
Sarcophagus of Dagi decorated with paintings and reliefs
Artefact Details
Gallery number: 26 – Ground Floor
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: 11th Dynasty (ca. 2125–1985 BC)
Place of discovery: Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, TT103 Dagi
Size: Height: 110 cm, width: 126 cm, Length: 292cm
Material: Painted Limestone
Rectangular sarcophagus of Governer of the Town and Vizier Dagi. There is one line of funerary inscription that goes around all sides of the exterior of the box. One of the long sides is decorated with a pair of wedjat eyes. The interior of the sarcophagus is adorned with images of funerary equipment, painted in color, along with hieroglyphic inscriptions in black.
Standing statue of King Senusret I
Standing statue of King Senusret I
Artefact Details
Gallery number: 22 – Ground Floor
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: 11th Dynasty (ca. 2125–1985 BC)
Size: Height: 56cm, width: 11 cm, Length: 26 cm
Place of discovery: El-Lisht, Excavated by A. Lythgoe for the MMA (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) in 1914
Material: Painted Wood
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Striding statue, left leg forward, of king in the white crown, of cedar wood. The figure is uninscribed, and is now assigned to the reign of Senwosret I. The features of the face are regular, with the eyes painted with black irises and white sclera. The king wears a knee-length kilt, painted white, with the pleated side flaps, the pleats indicated in red pigment. He hold a full-length crook, its lowest part broken away, in his proper left hand; his right hand hangs by his side, fisted to hold an object (probably a scepter of some sort) that is now missing. His body is muscular and his feet, attached to a rectangular base, are bare. The exposed skin is painted a dark reddish-brown. The sculpture is in excellent condition, and is almost completely intact.
Pyramidion of the pyramid of Amenemhat III
Pyramidion of the pyramid of Amenemhat III
Artefact Details
Gallery number: Central Hall – Ground Floor
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: 12th Dynasty – (1842-1794 BC)
Size: Height: 140 cm, Max Width: 185 cm
Place of discovery: Dahshur
Material: Basalt
King Amenemhat III built his pyramid at Hawara in Fayum but also a cenotaph in Dahshur where his predecessor Amenemhat II had been buried. The pyramidion was at the top of this structure and is decorated on the east side with a winged sun disk flanked by two uraeus cobras and two eyes over the hieroglyphic text that celebrates the sun god Ra.
Statue of King Mentuhotep II
Painted seated statue of the King Mentuhotp II (Mentuhotp - Nebhepetre)
Artefact Details
Gallery number: 26 – Ground Floor
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 11, Reign of Mentuhotep II (ca. 1980-1940 BC)
Size: Height 138 cm
Place of discovery: Thebes West, Deir el-Bahari, Mortuary Temple of Mentuhotep II
Material: Painted Sandstone
This life-size seated statue of the king Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II (names meaning: «The Lord of the rudder is Ra» and «Montu is satisfied») considered the reunifier of Egypt after the First Intermediate Period and the first king of the Middle Kingdom was discovered wrapped in fine linen in 1900 by Howard Carter inside the subterranean chamber of the mortuary complex of this king at Deir el Bahari (Thebes West). The king is represented seated on a cubic throne, wearing the Red Crown of Lower Egypt a short white cloak associated with the jubilee festival with the divine beard, the arms crossed and the hands that originally held the royal insignia, the crook, and the flail. The skin of the statue is painted in black color connected with the god Osiris with whom the king is identified.