The Queen assumes the same rigidly frontal posture, however her left leg is less advanced than his, which alludes that she is a subordinate figure to her king - in this stance she is just echoing the pharaoh's decisive actions. She embraces the pharaoh with her right arm placing her hand aroun

The statue group is left unfinished. The most finished parts are the heads, torsos, and king's feet. The queen's feet were carved out and left unpolished. The side view of the group offers a great contrast between the rough texture of the stone and its polished one. The back slab goes up to the shoulders of the figures without revealing their backs. It carries a supportive structure for the statues and is not touched up by the artist. This could be indicative of two things: either the group was simply unfinished or was meant to be placed in the niche or stand against a corridor wall.

There is a space of about couple of centimeters between the statues that widens towards the base, and which makes Menkaure appear standing independently from his female counterpart. In this frontal, striding forward posture the pharaoh looks confident and in control. The Queen, however, cannot be thought of as an independent statue. First of all, the statue of the king overlaps that of the queen: her right shoulder becomes fused with and overlapped by his left shoulder. Second of all, she has both of her arms around him and not the other way around. Although her appea

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