#mentuhotep

[lollolorenzs]

which one has the most shiny bald🔥

mentuhotep🤤

my glorious king moondrop😻😻

Voting ended onMay 30, 2025

Mentuhotep credits to @amorreo😋😋😋

[theancientwayoflife]

~ King Mentuhotep III as Osiris (Osiride Temple Statue).

Period: Middle Kingdom (2030-1650 B.C.)

Place of origin: Egypt

Date: 2000-1000 B.C.

Medium: Sandstone with red, black, and white paint.

[evelynhewett]

Inktober Day 11: Mentuhotep II

Mentuhotep fought a lot of battles to re-centre the power in Egypt. When his impressive mortuary temple, the first of it’s kind at the Deir el-Bahari temple complex site, went through further excavations for the Metropolitan Museum under Herbert E. Winlock, the bodies of 60 young men that Winlock believed to be Mentuhotep’s honoured soldiers were discovered.

Despite their militaristic culture, the Egyptians never colonised any foreign territories, likely because of their religion. Instead, the standing army would regularly raid neighbouring companies for whatever commodities could be carried off, often precious metals and stones that couldn’t be mined in Egypt.

[mini-girlz]

Estate Figure 

Period: Middle Kingdom

Dynasty 12Reign: early reign of Amenemhat I

Date: ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, S

Medium: Wood, gesso, paint

Dimensions: H. 112 cm (44 1/8 in.); W. 17 cm (6 11/16 in.); D. 46.7 cm (18 3/8 in.)

This masterpiece of Egyptian wood carving was discovered in a hidden chamber at the side of the passage leading into the rock cut tomb of the royal chief steward Meketre, who began his career under King Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II of Dynasty 11 and continued to serve successive kings into the early years of Dynasty 12. Together with a second, very similar female figure (now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo) this statue flanked the group of twenty two models of gardens, workshops, boats, and a funeral procession that were crammed into the chamber's narrow space. Striding forward with her left leg, the woman carries on her head a basket filled with cuts of meat. In her right hand she holds a live duck by its wings. The figure's iconography is well known from reliefs of the Old Kingdom in which rows of offering bearers were depicted. Place names were often written beside these figures identifying them as personifications of estates that would provide sustenance for the spirit of the tomb owner in perpetuity. The woman is richly adorned with jewelry and wears a dress decorated with a pattern of feathers, the kind of garment often associated with goddesses. Thus, this figure and its companion in Cairo may also be associated with the funerary goddesses Isis and Nephthys who are often depicted at the foot and head of coffins, protecting the deceased. All the accessible rooms in the tomb of Meketre had been plundered in ancient times, but, early in 1920, the Museum's excavator, Herbert Winlock had his workmen clean out the accumulated debris in order to obtain an accurate floor plan of the tomb. It was during this cleaning operation that the small hidden chamber was discovered, filled with its almost perfectly preserved models and the two statues. In the division of finds between the Egyptian Government and the Metropolitan Museum, half of the contents went to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and half came to New York.

> metmuseum.org

[pinkhypnotic]

"Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture." Allen Ginsberg #neteru #realms #ancientaliens #Amun #Aman #Amen #Onnu #annunaki #Nefer #netert #Ausar #djed #Heru #horus #isis #Ra #maat #Egyptian #immortal #amenhotep #tutankhamen #mentuhotep #hathor #hetep #papyrus #bastet #Kush #Kemetic #Ankh

[ancientegyptianjewellery]

Cartouche of #Mentuhotep II View of the #cartouche of King Mentuhotep II at the entrance pillar of the #Temple of Khnum, Elephantine island, #Aswan #Tutankhamun. #BritishMuseum #egyptianmuseum #MuseumFromHome #bkmegyptianart #ancientring #Egypt #AncientEgyptian #JewelryAncientEgyptian #Jewelleryancientegyptian #ringsancientegyptian #scarabsrings #scarabs  #newkingdom #jewellerybloger #instajewelry #egyptological #egyptianjewelry #tutankhamón #18Dynasty #newkingdom #metmuseum (at Temple of Isis Philae Angelina Island -Aswan.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCUtpHbhASs/?igshid=xqk275ixdg1p

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[platospluckedchicken]

God's of Thebes

Amon, Mut, and Khons are the triad of Thebes, and Mont is their other main God, though not part of the actual triad. Amon is depicted as a human man with a crown and his animal form was usually the ram though there's one image of him as a goose, which is related to one of the versions of the creation story where the goose honks and sets creation into motion, usually this is the benu-bird. The ram is the symbol of power and strength and sometimes, when combined with Amon, he wears the sundisk on his crown. The Greeks saw Amon as the king of the Egyptian gods and likened him to Zeus. This also applies to the relationship with kings, Amon-Re is the father of kings because Re if the father of kings. Hatshepsut said she was the daughter of Amon as a political maneuver and made images of him coming to earth and getting it on with her mom in the form of Thutmosis I. Amon's name means "hidden" or "concealed" so you can't see him but you know he's there and you can feel his power, like the wind almost. Amon is the father of the triad and Mut is the mother. Mut looks like a normal human woman, but she does wear the combined north/south crown. The name Mut actually just means "mother." Khons is the son and he's depicted as a young man or a person with a falcon head. The two forms both have the moondisk sign as a crown and Khons shares the moon with Thoth. Khons' name means "to travel accross" referencing the moon's path accross the sky. In his human form he is wrapped like a mummy with the moon sign and he has a side pony tail called a side lock. King Tut is depicted as Khons with the side lock. The falcon head form is not mummified. Mont is an important God of Thebes, but isn't part of the triad. Mont has two animal forms, a falcon head and a bull head. The falcon head has the Amon crown and one image is actually Mont with two heads and two snakes on the crown, this is unusual and only seen with him. Mentuhotep is actually named after this god.