Relief with Husband and Wife

ca. 2100-2020 BCE (First Intermediate Period-early Middle Kingdom)

29.5 cm 16.5 cm 6 cm

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The sculptor Mentu-user and his wife Hepu are shown seated before a table heaped with various offerings, including a haunch of beef, a goose, and a bunch of grapes. The inscriptions beside their heads identify them. Note that the hieroglyphs face in the same direction as the f...

Sculpture

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Luxor]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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