Statue of Ptah-Khenui

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This paper briefly describes the statue and what it is made off. It looks at the significance of this sculpture and what it reflects of the society at that time.

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"The statue of Ptah-khenui and his wife is from the Old Kingdom, Fifth Dynasty, 2488-2400 BCE, and is found today in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The statue is made of painted limestone and stands 70.1 cm high (almost three feet). The work was discovered in 1936 in Giza, Egypt. This work of art is interesting first because it is so well-preserved and second because it suggests something about both the art of the time and different social attitudes as expressed through art. The work is often compared to the statue of Menkaure and His Queen in the same museum, and the two statues do seem similar in that the pose is much the same. the fact that the pose is associated with royalty makes it appropriate for Menkaure and His Queen, and the fact that the same pose is used for Ptah-khenui and his wife suggests that commoners deliberately imitated the royal class, though other elements in the work show that these figures are not royalty at all."

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