A Man Climbing a Scaffolding
Middle Kingdom
The temple of Mentuhotep II at Deir el-Bahri combined innovative building ideas with a relief decoration that was largely based on prototypes from the Old Kingdom pyramid temples in the Memphite area. Utterly destroyed by stone robbers in antiquity, this decoration was preserved in thousands of fragments. The piece here depicts a man in a tight garment with a feather in his hair climbing a scaffolding during a feast for the god Min.
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