Posts Tagged ‘Menkaure’
This week’s Digest is dedicated to the American Petrie—George Andrew Reisner. Inside: Khafre’s Valley Temple, Menkaure’s complex, Hetepheres’ “tomb”, Reisner in Nubia, fantastic artifacts, tons of photography and a special supplement by Yvonne Buskens on finding online textual resources.
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Tags: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, George Reisner, Giza Archives Project, Harvard University, Mastabas, Menkaure, Menkaure Triads, Nubia, Pyramid Temples, Valley Temple of Khafre
Perhaps it would be a stretch to call Menkaure’s Pyramid modest, but it is significantly smaller than those of Khufu and Khafre. He is recalled much more fondly than his autocratic grandfather and seems to have been less vain than his statue-happy father, although more of his statues survived intact and are of such exquisite craftsmanship as to suggest that maybe quality over quantity was Menkaure’s trademark.
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Tags: Ancient Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, Giza Plateau, Giza Pyramids, Khafre, Khufu, Menkaure, Menkaure's Pyramid, Pyramids, Sarcophagus, Shepseskaf