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From this temple come the famous statues of Menkaure with his queen and Menkaure with several deities. A partial list includes: [8] Nome triad, Hathor-Mistress-of-the-Sycomore seated, and King and Hare-nome goddess standing, greywacke, in Boston Mus. 09.200. Nome triad, King, Hathor-Mistress-of-the-Sycomore and Theban nome-god standing ...
The Menkaure Valley temple was excavated between 1908 and 1910 by American archaeologist George Andrew Reisner. [9] He found a large number of statues, mostly of Menkaure alone, and as a member of a group. These were all carved in the naturalistic style of the Old Kingdom, with a high degree of detail. [10]
In ancient Egyptian history, the Old Kingdom is the period spanning c. 2700 –2200 BC. It is also known as the "Age of the Pyramids" or the "Age of the Pyramid Builders", as it encompasses the reigns of the great pyramid-builders of the Fourth Dynasty, such as King Sneferu, under whom the art of pyramid-building was perfected, and the kings Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, who commissioned the ...
The valley temple once contained several statues of Menkaure. During the 5th Dynasty, a smaller ante-temple was added on to the valley temple. The mortuary temple also yielded several statues of Menkaure. The king's pyramid, completed c. 2510 BC, has three subsidiary or queen's pyramids.
The deified Hare nome; closeup of a statue group of pharaoh Menkaure, Fourth Dynasty of Egypt [1]. The Hare nome, also called the Hermopolite nome (Ancient Egyptian: wnt "Cape hare") was one of the 42 nomoi (administrative divisions) in ancient Egypt; more precisely, it was the 15th nome of Upper Egypt.
Pyramid of Menkaure: Basalt sarcophagus with palace facade; Later burial: wooden anthropoid coffin inscribed with Menkaure's name Bones of a woman with pieces of clothing (later burial) Paneled chamber: stylized false door motifs, lintel in reed-mat form [15] [20] [3] [21] Queen's pyramid GIII-a: Granite sarcophagus Undecorated Pieces of ...
He was a grandson of Khafre and Khamerernebty I and great-grandson of Khufu, the king who built the Great Pyramid of Giza. [3] [4] He was a secretary and "sole companion of his father". [5] He was the eldest son of his parents, but he was not Menkaure’s successor. [6] This was Shepseskaf. [7] Khuenre is buried in Menkaure’s cemetery (MQ 1).
Old Kingdom Period: This collection includes a range of significant artifacts, such as the statues of Djoser, Khafre, Menkaure, Sheikh El-Balad, the dwarf Seneb, King Pepi I, his son Merenre, as well as numerous coffins, statues of individuals, wall paintings, and the collection of Queen Hetepheres.