The Reliefs of the Chapel of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep at Gebelein (CGT 7003/1-277)

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17964-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 39, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 218 mm x 295 mm, Gewicht: 907 g

Reihe: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

In 1910 Ernesto Schiaparelli, along with the Italian Archaeological Mission on behalf of the Regio Museo di Antichità Egizie, excavated the area where, during the Eleventh Dynasty, King Nebhepetre Mentuhotep erected a chapel to the goddess Hathor at the site of Gebelein. Some of the blocks belonging to this chapel had already been moved to the Cairo Museum during the nineteenth century, and finds during Schiaparelli’s campaign were taken to the Egyptian Museum at Turin. In this work, Elisa Fiore Marochetti presents documents from these two museums and gives an architectonic and decorative reconstitution of an unknown monument. The mostly unpublished blocks and fragments, presented here as the General Catalogue of the Turin Museum, follow a general introduction to the geographical, religious, and historical setting of Gebelein and of the chapel before Mentuhotep’s reunification of the land. The dating of the chapel is formulated on the basis of the iconographical style of the reliefs and of the titulary borne by Mentuhotep.

"The publication therefore not only presents a valuable reference to the Egyptian antiquities housed in Turin’s Egyptian
Museum. It also presents a valuable addition to literature on Egyptian temple decoration and development, royal iconography,kingship and the course of events on the verge of the Middle Kingdom."
Nico Staring, Macquarie University

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marochetti, Elisa Fiore

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. INTRODUCTION
II. DATING THE CHAPEL
III. THE CULT OF HATHOR, LADY OF DENDEREH, AND THE PANTHEON
OF MENTUHOTEP
IV. HYPOTHETICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATION
V. CATALOGUE
VI. PLATES
VII. COLOR PLATES

Über Autor(innen)

Elisa Fiore Marochetti, M.A., M. Lit., Ph.D. in Egyptology, is director at the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Piemonte e del Museo Antichità Egizie. After postgraduate studies in Oxford and Rome, with the theses The Development of the Design of the Mastaba Tomb and The Chapel of Mentuhotep at Gebelein,she took up her appointment as curator at the Soprintendenza al Museo delle Antichità Egizie in Turin. Her fields of interest are mainly design and symbolism in art and architecture from the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom, and the collection of the Egyptian Museum in Turin. Since 2000 she has lectured on Egyptology for the Faculty of Language and Foreign Literature at the University of Turin, and for the Faculty of Literature at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata.”