Relief of Horemheb with Nubian Prisoners

This Relief of Horemheb with Nubian Prisoners shows Nubian prisoners with Negroid features, tightly curled hair, and earrings, who are seated on the ground submissively as Egyptian soldiers with batons watch over them.

Depicted in sunk relief is also a scribe who is writing a report.  This sculptured relief was part of a larger composition depicting foreign prisoners of war.

It also celebrated the prowess of Horemheb, the general commander of the army, who took prisoners after military campaigns.

This limestone relief with traces of painting from the Saqqara tomb of Horemheb dates to the reign of Tutankhamun. Horemheb was the commander-in-chief of the army under the sovereignty of Tutankhamun and Ay.

After he acceded to the throne, as the Pharaoh, official action was taken against the preceding Amarna rulers.

Horemheb demolished monuments of Akhenaten, reusing their remains in his building projects, and usurped monuments of Tutankhamun and Ay.

He is considered to have established traditional religion after the Amarna Period. He ruled for 14 years and was not related to the preceding royal family.

Horemheb

Horemheb was the last Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from 1319 BC and 1292 BC. 

Before he became Pharaoh, Horemheb was the commander-in-chief of the army under the reigns of Tutankhamun and Ay.

After he acceded to the throne, he reformed the Egyptian state and restabilized his country after the divisive Amarna Period. 

Horemheb usurped Tutankhamun monuments and maybe the key reason that Tutankhamun was not as well-known before the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.

Horemheb presumably remained childless since he appointed his vizier Paramesse as his successor, who would assume the throne as Ramesses I.

Relief of Horemheb with Nubian Prisoners

• Title:               Relief of Horemheb with Nubian Prisoners
• Created:         1332-1323 BC
• Period:           18th Dynasty, Reign of Tutankhamun
• Culture:          Ancient Egypt
• Find-site:        Saqqara, Sakkara or Saccara, Egypt, Tomb of Horemheb
• Media:            Limestone with polychromy traces
• Museum:        The Archaeological Civic Museum of Bologna

Haremhab, Pharaoh and Conqueror

Exhibits of the Archaeological Civic Museum

• Pillar of Ramsesemperre, Royal Cupbearer and Fanbearer
• Relief of Hormin with a Weighing of the Heart
• Relief of Horemheb with Nubian Prisoners

Ay & Horemheb – all the King’s men, Egypt, North Africa

A Virtual Tour of Egyptian Art and Artifacts

• Nefertiti Bust
• Tutankhamun’s Mask
• Narmer Palette
• Merneptah Stele
• Standing Figure of Nefertiti
• A house altar showing Akhenaten and Nefertiti with their children
• Relief Portrait of Akhenaten
• The Rosetta Stone
• The Battlefield Palette 3100 BC
• Quartzite Head of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III
• Colossal Granite Statue of Amenhotep III
• Hunters Palette
• Tomb of Nebamun
• The Temple of Dendur
• The Sphinx of Hatshepsut
• William the Faience Hippopotamus
• Shawabti of King Senkamanisken
• Younger Memnon (Ramesses II)
• Pillar of Ramsesemperre, Royal Cupbearer and Fanbearer
• Relief of Hormin with a Weighing of the Heart
• Relief of Horemheb with Nubian Prisoners
• Akhenaten and Nefertiti
• Seated Scribe
• Sarcophagus Lid of Queen Sitdjehuti
• Stela of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Family
• Statue of Amenhotep III and Tiye
• Colossal Statues of Akhenaten
• Obelisk of Titus Sextius Africanus
• Book of the Dead – Papyrus of Ani and Hunefe
• Mummy of Katebet

Haremhab: General and King of Egypt

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– Egyptian Proverbs

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Photo Credit 1) JOM