Pen-Menkh the Governor of Dendara

AA-015Interactive 3D capture

AA-015 / THE COLLECTION

Pen-Menkh the Governor of Dendara

The gallery label identifies Pen-Menkh as a governor of Dendara and priest of Hathor and Horus during Cleopatra VII’s time and the Roman conquest. It describes a combination of Egyptian and Hellenistic artistic traditions and dates the statue to the first century BC.

RECORDED AT: National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
LABELLED PROVENANCE: Dendara
CAPTURE DATE: 2026-08-19
PERIOD: Roman conquest
MATERIAL: Granite and sandstone (gallery label)
ACCESS: Free to explore and download · CC BY 4.0

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THE RECORD BEHIND THE OBJECT

A surface.
A photograph.
A point of view.

What the capture shows +

Greek and Egyptian carving meet in one figure, which is what the label singles out and what makes it worth turning.

Capture and processing +

63 raw images from a single session at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization on 19 August 2026, processed with Apple's PhotogrammetrySession (RealityKit) into a watertight textured mesh of 74,412 faces at 4096px. The archival file is 32 MB; the copy that turns in this viewer is the same geometry at 3.9 MB, mesh-compressed with a JPEG texture for the web.

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Released: free to download, CC BY 4.0

IDENTIFICATION & EVIDENCE

Historical sources & uncertainty

The history above is attributed to the photographed gallery label. It is separate from the project’s capture and processing metadata; no museum accession number has been verified. The label lists both granite and sandstone; the record does not establish which components use each material.

Photographed gallery label, “Pen-Menkh the Governor of Dendara”
Project source photograph IMG_ARKit_418549524.heic; original retained in the capture archive. Description paraphrased after checking the photograph, not copied from OCR.

AA numbers identify ArchaeoArchive records; they are not museum accession numbers. Capture dates describe photography, not the age of the object. Historical references do not certify scale, capture permission or academic review.

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Atabany, Omar. “Pen-Menkh the Governor of Dendara” (AA-015). ArchaeoArchive. https://archaeoarchive.com/view/pen-menkh-the-governer-of-dendara.

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Pen-Menkh the Governor of Dendara

Pen-Menkh the Governor of Dendara

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