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This statue was found by chance from the scientist Howard Carter, who was working at the time as an inspector of Thebes antiquities in 1900, where his horse stumbled in the floor of the outer courtyard of the funerary temple of the king and the horse and its owner fell, where he found a well that leads to a small room in which the statue of the king was found wrapped in linen and wearing the red crown.
Sitting on a seat without armrests, wearing the white jubilee robe, a special jubilee robe (Love Dam), celebrated thirty years after the king’s rule.
Thus, the room was called the Horse Gate or the Horse Cemetery, and it is located on the floor of the temple of King Mentuhotep in Deir el-Bahari in Thebes (currently west of Luxor).
The statue dates back to the reign of the king.
Mentuhotep II or Mentuhotep Nebhepetre Eleventh Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom
And his name means the god Mantou Radhi.
He is the founder of the Middle Kingdom, where this Theban king was able to unite Egypt for the second time after King Narmer.
The statue was made of sandstone and was dyed black, and this colour was not the original colour of the king, as it was said, but the king ordered the sculptors to dye the statue to show an image that combines north and south.
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