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| Keywords: Prince Ra-Hotep and Princess Nefer-T (cropped).jpg </b> Scrapbook page containing a photograph of two statues of Egyptian royalty annotated with quotes and information about the statues <b>Subjects </b> Egypt travel photography statues Egyptian ancient <b>Page size </b> 33 x 38 1 cm <b>Annotations </b> Prince Ra-Hotep and Princess Nefer-t These are probably the oldest portrait statues in the world These people who sit before us side by colored to the life fresh and glowing as the day they gave the artist his last sitting lived at a time when the great pyramids were not yet built and at a date which is variously calculated as from about 4 000 to 6 300 years from thepresent day The princess wears her hair precisely as it is still worn in Nubia and her necklace is of a pattern still favored The eyes of both statues are inserted The eyeball which is set in an eyelid of bronze is made of opaque white quartz with an iris of rock-crystal enclosing a pupil of some kind of brilliant metal This treatment gives to the eyes a look of intelligence which is almost appalling Amelia B Edwards These incomparable statues are most expressive and stand in vitality to the works of any later age in Egypt They were found in the tomb chamber- Ra-Ho-tep is entitled a royal son probably of Seneferu- The signs carved in these tombs are among the earliest known Instead of full-length burial with coffins head rests vases and provision for a future life the more usual method of burial at Medum is lying on the left side with the knees drawn up facing the east and without vases or other objects showing a diversity of beliefsand probably of races W M Flinders Petrie <b>Language </b> English photograph titled in French <b>Rights </b> No known restrictions <b>Coverage </b> Egypt <b>Notes </b> Title supplied by cataloger derived from captions or annotated information <b>Format </b> Scrapbooks <b>Technique </b> Photographs Albumen prints <b>BPL Department </b> Print Department <b>Photo 1 </b> <b>Title </b> 122 Le prince Ra-hotep et la dame Nefer-t <b>Caption </b> Double Group in limestone found in 1870 1871 Petrie in a Mastaba near the Pyramid of Meidoum Mariette assigns them to the end of the III Dynastie - Petrie to the IV Dynasty B C 3998 - they are painted <b>Date </b> Late 19th Century originally posted to Flickr as http //flickr com/photos/24029425 N06/2468308849 Prince Ra-Hotep and Princess Nefer-T 2008-05-01 17 12 36 William Vaughn Tupper 1835 ” 1898 PD-old-100 Rahotep Nofret Ancient Egyptian art from Meidum Works by Flinders Petrie Statues of the 4th dynasty of Egypt Rahotep Ancient Egyptian art made from limestone Ancient Egyptian statues of sitting couples Ancient Egyptian statues in the Cairo Egyptian Museum Kalasiris Schenti Amelia Edwards | ||||
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