The Reliefs of the Chapel of Nebhepetra Mentuhotep at Gebelein

In this work, Elisa Fiore Marochetti presents documents from these the Cairo Museum and the Egyptian Museum at Turin and gives an architectonic and decorative reconstitution of an unknown monument. The mostly unpublished blocks and fragments, presented here as the General Catalogue of the Turin Museum, follow a general introduction to the geographical, religious, and historical setting of Gebelein and of the chapel before Mentuhotep’s reunification of the land.

Elisa Fiore Marochetti, M.A., M. Lit., Ph.D. in Egyptology, is director at the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Piemonte e del Museo Antichita Egizie. After postgraduate studies in Oxford and Rome, with the theses The Development of the Design of the Mastaba Tomb and The Chapel of Mentuhotep at Gebelein,she took up her appointment as curator at the Soprintendenza al Museo delle Antichita Egizie in Turin. Her fields of interest are mainly design and symbolism in art and architecture from the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom, and the collection of the Egyptian Museum in Turin. Since 2000 she has lectured on Egyptology for the Faculty of Language and Foreign Literature at the University of Turin, and for the Faculty of Literature at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata.”