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What was the function of the seated Khafre statue?
The statue was carved for the Pharaoh’s valley temple near the Great Sphinx, a part of the necropolis used in funeral rituals. This Old Kingdom statue has an important function in Egyptian tombs as substitute abodes for the Pharaoh’s ka—the life force that accompanied a person with a kind of other self.
Where is the seated statue of Khafre?
Khafre Enthroned is a funerary statue of the Pharaoh Khafre, who reigned during the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (c. 2570 BCE). It is now located in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Who created the seated statue of Khafre?
The seated statue of Khafre from the fourth dynasty of the Old Kingdom (2520- 492 BC) was created by an unknown artist. The artists of these two statues captured the royalty of the kings by seating them on a throne to inspire tremendous awe in all that beheld each statue.
Is the statue of Khafre a ka statue?
The statue of Khafre is what the Egyptians call a ka statue. The work was made for the funerary complex of King Khafre. The Egyptians believed in the after-life.
Where was the kneeling statue of King Hatshepsut displayed?
Deir el-Bahri
Large Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut ca. 1479–1458 B.C. New Kingdom. On the upper terrace of Hatshepsut’s temple at Deir el-Bahri, the central sanctuary was dedicated to the god Amun-Re, whose principal place of worship was Karnak temple, located across the Nile, on the east bank of the river.
What does ka mean spirituality?
Ka is the life force or spiritual double of the person. The royal Ka symbolized a pharaoh’s right to rule, a universal force that passed from one pharaoh to the next. Ba is represented as a human-headed bird that leaves the body when a person dies.
What is peculiar about the stone from which the statue of Khafre was made?
The material of this statue, which is approximately life-size, is diorite, an extremely hard stone and chosen for its sense of permanence—the permanence of kingship. Here we see Khafre as a god-king—ruler of his subjects not just in the present but in the afterlife as well.
Where was the seated statue of Hatshepsut found?
Metropolitan Museum of Art
In the 1920’s, while excavating around the Temple of Hatsepsut at Deir el-Bahri, Metropolitan Museum of Art archaeologists found a junk pit with hundreds of huge statues, broken into pieces. The archaeologists discovered these were all statues of Hatshepsut, smashed to bits eons ago.
When was the seated statue of Hatshepsut found?
The lower part of the statue was acquired by Karl Richard Lepsius and taken to Berlin in 1845. The head, left forearm, and parts of the throne were excavated by the Museum during the 1926-27 season and acquired in the division of finds.