坐着的国王雕像 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	坐着的国王雕像
品名（英）	Seated Statue of King Menkaure
入馆年号	1937年，37.6.1
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 2490
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	高 20 厘米 (7 7/8 英寸)
介绍（中）	哈弗雷的儿子、胡夫的孙子门库尔在吉萨建造了第三金字塔。与他父亲和祖父的第一和第二金字塔覆盖着白色石灰石不同，Menkaure计划用花岗岩建造他的金字塔。这件事在他去世时仍未完成，也从未完成。1908年，哈佛大学和波士顿美术博物馆的联合探险队挖掘出了他的金字塔建筑群。这尊未完成的门库尔小雕像是在一个雕塑家的工作室里发现的，该工作室与他的金字塔山谷神庙有关。这是在那里发现的十四尊国王雕像之一，全部未完成，处于雕塑过程的不同阶段。它描绘了国王的传统姿势，左手平放，手掌朝下放在大腿上；他的右手在这里断了，本来应该是拳头。小雕像的脚和底座的前部也被毁坏了。国王坐在一个块状的王座上，王座完工后会刻上sematawy符号，代表上埃及和下埃及的统一。他戴着复仇女神的头巾，留着假胡子，额头上可以看到天王星的痕迹小雕像由优质硬质石灰石制成，仍然显示出初步遮挡的痕迹，这些痕迹因表面的初步抛光而部分模糊。已经显示了躯干的肌肉组织，小雕像显示了Menkaure在山谷神庙其他地方发现的大型杂砂岩和雪花石膏雕像中展示的方形成熟脸的轮廓。
介绍（英）	Menkaure, son of Khafre and grandson of Khufu, built the Third Pyramid at Giza. Unlike the First and Second Pyramids of his father and grandfather which were covered in white limestone, Menkaure planned to case his pyramid in granite. This remained unfinished at his death and was never completed. His pyramid complex was excavated by a joint expedition of Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1908. This unfinished statuette of Menkaure was found in a sculptor's workshop associated with the valley temple of his pyramid. It was one of fourteen statuettes of the king found there, all unfinished and in various stages of the sculptural process. It depicts the king in the traditional pose, seated with his left hand flat, palm down on this thigh; his right hand, here broken off, would have been in a fist. The feet of the statuette and the front part of the base on which they rested were destroyed as well. The king is seated on a blocklike throne that, when complete, would have been carved with the sematawy symbol, which represents the unity of Upper and Lower Egypt. He wears the nemes headcloth and false beard, and traces of the uraeus can be seen on the brow. The statuette is made of a good quality hard limestone and still shows traces of the preliminary blocking-out of the figure, which have been partly obscured by the initial polishing of the surface. The musculature of the torso has been indicated and the statuette shows the outlines of the square mature face of Menkaure displayed in the large statues of greywacke and alabaster found elsewhere in his valley temple.