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Summary
: H5038
: Egyptology
: statuette
: A red granite (quartzite) head of a man wearing a nemes headdress. There is a uraeus (cobra) on the front centre of the headdress, it snakes in 's' bends across the top of the head and the tail goes straight down the back of its head. The nose is damaged on the left hand side and the head of the cobra is missing. Everything below the start of the neck is missing. The head of Mentuhotep II.
Current Location
On Display at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Egypt Gallery
: Egypt, North Africa, Africa: Pharaoh Mentuhotep II
: 2055-2004 BC
: Middle Kingdom
: [Citation] Grinsell. 31.: Given by Mrs L.C.R. Phillips, 1964.