Neferhotep, 19th Dynasty

Fragment of a Relief Showing Neferhotep Egyptian, New Kingdom, early Dynasty 19 I(c. 1279-1199 BCE) Limestone with pigment Culver Fund, Art Institute of Chicago #1924.579 Photo © Joan Ann Lansberry

(From info card) "The man portrayed here, named Neferhotep, raises his hand in adoration of a god. He wears a white, closely pleated, linean garment and a wig made of small braids." The Metropolitan museum has a statue of Yuny, from the 19th Dynasty, who is dressed in a similar fashion. Both Yuny and Neferhotep had positions of leadership, Yuny as "overseer of Sekhmet's lay-priests", while "Neferhotep was a foreman of the workers who built the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes."