The reliefs of the chapel of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep at Gebelein (CGT 7003/1-277) / by Elisa Fiore Marochetti ; translated by Kenneth Hurry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fiore Marochetti, Elisa.

Contributor:

Hurry, Kenneth.

Series:

Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 39.

Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 1566-2055 ; v. 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chapels--Egypt--Gebelein Site.

Chapels.

Relief (Sculpture), Ancient--Egypt--Gebelein Site.

Relief (Sculpture), Ancient.

Monuments--Egypt--Gebelein Site.

Monuments.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt--Gebelein Site.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Hathor (Egyptian deity).

Gebelein Site (Egypt).

Museo egizio di Torino--Catalogs.

Museo egizio di Torino.

Mentuhotep II, King of Egypt.

Mentuhotep.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1910 Ernesto Schiaparelli, along with the Italian Archaeological Mission on behalf of the Regio Museo di Antichità Egizie, excavated the area where, during the Eleventh Dynasty, King Nebhepetre Mentuhotep erected a chapel to the goddess Hathor at the site of Gebelein. Some of the blocks belonging to this chapel had already been moved to the Cairo Museum during the nineteenth century, and finds during Schiaparelli’s campaign were taken to the Egyptian Museum at Turin. In this work, Elisa Fiore Marochetti presents documents from these two museums and gives an architectonic and decorative reconstitution of an unknown monument. The mostly unpublished blocks and fragments, presented here as the General Catalogue of the Turin Museum, follow a general introduction to the geographical, religious, and historical setting of Gebelein and of the chapel before Mentuhotep’s reunification of the land. The dating of the chapel is formulated on the basis of the iconographical style of the reliefs and of the titulary borne by Mentuhotep. \'The publication therefore not only presents a valuable reference to the Egyptian antiquities housed in Turin’s Egyptian Museum. It also presents a valuable addition to literature on Egyptian temple decoration and development, royal iconography,kingship and the course of events on the verge of the Middle Kingdom.\' Nico Staring, Macquarie University

Contents:

Preliminary Material / E.F. Marochetti

I. Introduction / E.F. Marochetti

II. Dating The Chapel / E.F. Marochetti

III. The Cult Of Hathor, Lady Of Dendereh, And The Pantheon Of Mentuhotep / E.F. Marochetti

IV. Hypothetical Reconstruction Of Architecture And Decoration / E.F. Marochetti

V. Catalogue / E.F. Marochetti

Bibliography / E.F. Marochetti

VI. Plates / E.F. Marochetti.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-95112-2

9786612951121

90-474-4394-2

OCLC:

701704105

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004179646.i-213 DOI