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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 relief fragment here depicts a man carrying a yoke over his shoulders.
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Title: A Man Carrying a Yoke over his Shoulders
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 11
Reign: reign of Mentuhotep II, later
Date: ca. 2020–2000 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Temple of Mentuhotep II, Lower Colonnades, back walls, Egypt Exploration Fund excavations, 1907
Medium: Limestone, paint
Dimensions:
A. 22cm x 33 cm
B. 14 cm x 30 cm
Credit Line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1906
Object Number: 06.1231.33b
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