King Menkau Ra

 

Kings

 

King (Menkau Ra)

 

Let's tell the story of this giant

 

In January 1907, when George Zeisner was excavating behind the valley temple of King (Menkau Ra)

, he found small parts of the head and onyx in a hole that was a room, and it was clear that the statue had been deliberately destroyed.

The searching

He continued searching for the rest of the statue and found the large part sitting in a corridor adjacent to that room, but without the head.

 

Then, after two months of searching, the head was found in an ideal state of preservation.

 

Parts of the statue arrived at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, with only the head and leg on display.

 

Two years later, additional torso pieces were added, and some reconstruction was attempted. In 1925, at Reisner's request, the famous watercolor painter and artist Joseph Lyndon Smith sculpted the torso and buttocks in a more natural way.

The restoration 

The restoration we see today was completed in 1935 by Smith and his assistant Charles Moskowitz, who was a student at the Museum School.

 

This means that the restoration process of this statue took 28 years

 

The alabaster statue of the king (Menkau Ra) statue