Pierced heart-like pendant on the statue of Senwosret III

Senwosret III erected six such statues in the mortuary temple of Montuhotep II. This way he paid tribute to the king who had founded the Middle Kingdom two centuries earlier, and who continued to be revered. Senwosret was an authoritative reformer and campaigned in Nubia and Palestine. He, too, would be remembered as one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs.