WALTERS-EG
Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · statue
Relief with Husband and Wife
Description
<p>The sculptor Mentu-user and his wife Hepu are shown seated before a table heaped with various offerings, including a haunch of beef, a goose, and a bunch of grapes. The inscriptions beside their heads identify them. Note that the hieroglyphs face in the same direction as the figures. The two columns of hieroglyphs on the right are a request to the living to recite the offering text calling for fowl and a thousand loaves of bread for Mentu-user. The red flesh tone of the man and the yellow of the woman are an artistic convention to differentiate the sexes.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.134' rel='external'>Relief with Husband and Wife</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>
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- Walters 22.134 PNM text
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Inscriptions (2)
Inscription #1
English description
[Above heads] The sculptor Mentu-user and his most beloved wife Hepu.
Inscription #2
English description
[At right, two vertical lines] (You) who love living and hate dying, say: 'a thousand bread, beer, a thousand oxen and fowl, to the sculptor Mentu-user
Connections
Materials
Limestone
Cross-references (3)
- PNM-Object pnm:83904156 tier-2 (inventory-match)
- Walters-AccNum 22.134 tier-2
- Walters-id 19382 tier-2
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