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Analysis: Menkaure and Khamerernebty

            The roughly life size royal sculpture of King Menkaure and his Queen Khamerernebty II is positioned in a standing pose, with the King slightly striding and is dated to the Old Kingdom 4th Dynasty. This is a standard pose found in other statues of the period. Another pose would be sitting down as in the Seated Statue of Khafre, also found in Giza from around the same time, 2575-2525 B.C, or the Fragment from a statue of Menkaure, 2490-2472 B.C. The seated statues simply show another popular pose that would endure time and influence many artists to come. The standing statue of the King and Queen was found in the Valley Temple of the pyramid of Menkaure at Giza.
             The figure is a frontal view although Menkaure's head seems to be slightly turned to the right. His left foot is slightly advanced but his upper body seems unaffected by it. His shoulders are unmoved and his hips remain even which does not fit the way a person stepping forward would actually look. Menkaure's arms fall straight to his sides and his hands set grasping protruding pegs. His legs are relatively straight as well. The statue has a solid and majestic feel because it is actually carved out of a block of stone, keeping the entire body embedded to it. Perhaps the stone was meant to be up against a wall of some sort since the back is solid stone below their shoulders. There is no space between the arms and torso, and his advanced leg is also not separated from the block of stone. Egyptian sculptures were not limited to this style as seen in the Wooden statuette of an Official from about 2061-1926 B.C. The finely carved wooden statue is detached from any backing stone or wood, and is only 12 in. high. The person the statue is made of was not important enough to deserve a large stone statue showing a hierarchy of scale in Egyptian art. The proportions are similar to the stone carving though showing Egyptian art using a set of proportions between large and small statues.


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