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| Keywords: Egyptian - Relief with Husband and Wife - Walters 22134.jpg The sculptor Mentu-user and his wife Hepu are shown seated before a table heaped with various offerings including a haunch of beef a goose and a bunch of grapes The inscriptions beside their heads identify them Note that the hieroglyphs face in the same direction as the figures The two columns of hieroglyphs on the right are a request to the living to recite the offering text calling for fowl and a thousand loaves of bread for Mentu-user The red flesh tone of the man and the yellow of the woman are an artistic convention to differentiate the sexes ca 2100 2020 BC First Intermediate Period-early Middle Kingdom limestone with paint cm 16 5 29 5 6 accession number 22 134 19382 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1913 place of origin Naga ed-Dêr in present-day Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian reliefs in the Walters Art Museum Ancient Egyptian slab steles Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
