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| TEMPLE RELIEF Limestone. Height. 37 cm, length 33.5 cm. Provenance: funeral temple of Mentouhotem II, Deïr el-Bahari. Middle Empire, XIth Dynasty, ca. 2000 B.C. Acquired in 1936 from the Bissing Collection. Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst. No. ÄS 1621. In the overall framework of a festal procession on the walls of the highest terraces of the Temple of Hatchepsout, we can see the parade of a contingent of elite troupes. The soldiers are armed with bow and arrows in their right hand and a battle-axe in the left hand. |
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