Relief fragment with a cobra on the royal head

Middle Kingdom

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 104

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 relief fragment here depicts the king himself. Preserved are part of his head and headdress; the protective rearing cobra (uraeus) is at his forehead.

#1120. Relief fragment with a cobra on the royal head

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Relief fragment with a cobra on the royal head, Painted indurated limestone

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