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Lintel of Deities Leading Senwosret I
Middle Kingdom
Not on view
This object is not part of The Met collection. It was in the Museum for a special exhibition and has been returned to the lender.
This relief originates from a symmetrically composed door lintel that, when complete, was centered around back-to-back images of King Senwosret I facing depictions of the fertility god Min, whose cult center was in Coptos. On the left side, jackal-headed figures lead the king into the presence of the Upper Egyptian goddess Nekhbet. On the right side, a portion of which is displayed here, two falcon-headed divinities representing the city of Pe in the Nile Delta surround the king and guide him toward the goddess Wadjet, who can be identified by her vulture and cobra headdress. The horizontal inscription at the bottom contains part of the titulary of Senwosret I and a phrase proclaiming that he built the temple in which this lintel was originally erected.
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