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Menkaure and His Queen

Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe

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Menkaure and His Queen
2548-2530 BCE
4th Dynasty
Greywacke
Height: 4 feet 67/8 inches (139.5 cm)

(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)


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Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe
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MENKAURE AND HIS QUEEN

1. Discovery

2. Description

3. The Queen's Husband

4. Matriliny on Dynasty IV

   BIBLIOGRAPHY