Woman Carrying a Sunshade

ca. 2040 BCE (Middle Kingdom, 11th dynasty)

15 cm 12.5 cm 2.5 cm

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Nefru was the only woman to bear the title "Great Royal Wife" to King Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II. This delicate relief fragment comes from the chapel of her tomb. It shows the head, shoulders, and hand of a woman attending Queen Nefru. The staff that crosses her body supported a...

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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