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Sculpture
King Ny-user-ra
Egyptian artist
Egyptian artist
Egypt
Primary
32 1/8 x 9 3/8 x 15 3/8 in. (81.6 x 23.8 x 39.1 cm)
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upper half
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overall
overall
Granite
Granite
ca. 2390 BCE-2360 BCE
2390 BCE
2360 BCE
Before 2000 BCE, Egyptian, Egyptian rulers, men, sculpture, statues
Sculpture
This figure of King Ny-user-ra wears a royal striped linen headdress and carries a mace—a symbol of power—in his right hand. His name means “the one who belongs to the god Ra.” Ra, one of the earliest and most powerful Egyptian gods, was associated with the sun. The sculpture was probably buried in the King’s tomb to serve as the repository for Ny-user-ra’s ka, or life force.
[Gallery label text, 2009]
The Memorial Art Gallery’s bust of an Egyptian king of the Old Kingdom was unidentified until Bernard Bothmer, a prominent Egyptologist, realized that the Gallery’s sculpture matched the lower part of a statue in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo. On the base of the Cairo portion, in front of the right foot, is a cartouche (see diagram) naming King Ny-user-ra, who ruled from 2390 to 2360 BCE. A plaster cast was made of this lower fragment and attached to the Gallery’s bust. The king wears a royal striped linen headdress and carries in his right hand a mace, a symbol of power. The red granite statue had been tossed into a refuse dump in ancient times at the Temple of Amon at Karnak, where this and other fragments were excavated in 1904. This is one of only two known portraits inscribed with Ny-user-ra’s name.
[Gallery label text, 2004]
1942.54
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Memorial Art Gallery
3/20/2001
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42.54DI1
digital image
Memorial Art Gallery
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2 X 2
11/29/2001
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42.54DI2
digital image
Memorial Art Gallery
side view
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2 X 2
11/29/2001
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42.54SL2
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42.54SL3
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3/4 front from Chiro Mus. with their base/our bust
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Side
3/30/2009
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Three-quarter
3/30/2009
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3/30/2009
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3/30/2009
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Detail
3/30/2009
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Sculpture
Relief from the Tomb of Metetu
Egyptian artist
Egyptian artist
Egypt
Primary
10 5/8 x 25 13/16 x 1 3/4 in. (27 x 65.5 x 4.5 cm)
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overall
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with base
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without base
overall
Limestone
Limestone
Egyptian; made in Saqqara
ca. 2400 BCE-2250 BCE
2400 BCE
2250 BCE
1064
Before 2000 BCE, Egyptian, funerary objects, hieroglyphics, reliefs
Sculpture
This fragment of carved stone was once part of the decorative walls of a tomb for an Egyptian man called Metetu, who is pictured seated at the top left corner of the block. The hieroglyph signs in the top row of the fragment spell out his name and his position. They tell us that Metetu worked in the “great house,” or the king’s court, as a metalworker.
Tomb carvings from Metetu’s time used colorful scenes from daily life to illustrate the sources of the food offerings required by the dead. The bottom row of this fragment shows two men, identified as “guardians of the flock.” The man on the right holds the horn of a valuable long-horned cow, while the hieroglyphs around his head tell of “bringing the fattened calf” from the farm known as “Keth.”
[Gallery label text, 2009]
1973.64
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Memorial Art Gallery
3/20/2001
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4 x 5
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73.64DI1
digital image
Memorial Art Gallery
Imaging complete
8 x 10
11/29/2001
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73.64DI2
digital image
Imaging Complete
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Sculpture
Standing Male Figure
Egyptian artist
Egyptian artist
Egypt
Primary
11 7/8 x 2 3/4 x 1 7/8 in. (30.2 x 7 x 4.7 cm)
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overall
overall
Wood
Wood
2680 BCE - 2258 BCE
2680 BCE
2258 BCE
Before 2000 BCE, Egyptian, male figures, men
Sculpture
In Egyptian art, the male figure was invariably shown striding forward, with the left leg advanced.
[Gallery label text]
1940.66
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Memorial Art Gallery
2/13/2001
40.66SL1
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40.66DI1
digital image
Memorial Art Gallery
full
Imaging Complete
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40.66DI2
digital image
Memorial Art Gallery
detail
Imaging Complete
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40.66DI3
digital image
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40.66DI#3
digital image
full
12/18/2007
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