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General Horemheb receiving an award

Saqqara, south of the Djoser Precinct
Reign of Tutankhamen, 1332 - 1322 B.C.
Limestone;
h. 86 cm, w. 109 cm, d. 19.5 cm
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden

General Horemheb's mission to reassert Egypt's control over its empire appears to have been successful. As a reward, Tutankhamen and his queen decorated him with the massive gold collars he wears in this relief from his Saqqara tomb. The royal uraeus was added to Horemhebıs brow after he became pharaoh, even though he then abandoned this early tomb in favor of a new one in the Valley of the Kings.