Stock Photo - Head from a Statue of King Amenhotep I, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1525–1504 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Temple of Mentuhotep II, Forecourt, 1921–22, Sandstone, paint, H. 20 cm (7 7/8 in); weight 6.4 kg (14 lbs), King Amenhotep I, second ruler of Dynasty 18, made his own contributions toward the temple at Deir el-Bahri built by Mentuhotep II at the beginning of the Middle Kingdom. Most notably, he endowed the processional way, along which the god Amun's image was carried once a year toward Mentuhotep's sanctuary, with a row of mummiform (Osiride) statues of himself