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Funerary Stela of Heni

Authors

RISD Museum
Antoine Revoy, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
James Allen, Brown UniversityFollow

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Description

Offered symbolically, the images and hieroglyphics depicted on the right of this funerary stela ensured that Heni, a local high official, would never experience hunger or thirst in the afterlife. The slightly awkward proportions of Heni’s figure are typical of monuments of the First Intermediate period, when there was no centralized government in Egypt. The lack of royal control over artistic production during this time allowed artists to experiment, as seen in the multiple levels of relief on Heni’s kilt, the particular green of the hieroglyphs, and the striped border. 2134-2040 BCE

Publication Date

8-20-2013

Publisher

RISD Museum

City

Providence, Rhode Island

Keywords

Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Egyptian; funerary art; afterlife; relief

Disciplines

Sculpture

Recommended Citation

RISD Museum; Revoy, Antoine; and Allen, James, "Funerary Stela of Heni" (2013). Channel. 16.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/risdmuseum_channel/16