Egyptian painted limestone relief

An image of Architectural element. Wall Relief. Painted Limestone Relief. Fragment, with dog-like animal (possibly a fox) attacking a bird's nest. This motif is better known from Old Kingdom tombs. This relief comes to the museum with others from the mortuary temple of King Mentuhotep II. Find Spot: Thebes, Egypt. Limestone, height 35 cm, width 55 cm, 2125-2055 B.C. Eleventh Dynasty. Middle Kingdom.

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Architectural element. Wall Relief. Painted Limestone Relief. Fragment, with dog-like animal (possibly a fox) attacking a bird's nest. This motif is better known from Old Kingdom tombs. This relief comes to the museum with others from the mortuary temple of King Mentuhotep II. Find Spot: Thebes, Egypt. Limestone, height 35 cm, width 55 cm, 2125-2055 B.C. Eleventh Dynasty. Middle Kingdom.

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Accession Number: E.5.1906
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Image Library
Image height: 679 pixels
Image width: 1023 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 142.24kB

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Ancient Egypt animal animals antiquity architectural element BC birds birds-nest Egyptian Fitz_ANT fox foxes fragment limestone low relief Middle Kingdom nest painted relief Thebes wall relief

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