depicting royal figures. Hemiunu's features are only lightly stylized and clearly based on his appearance. He is depicted as obese, with notable accumulation of fat in the pectoral region. This contrasts with the more idealized representation of male subjects in royal portraiture in this and most succeeding periods of ancient Egyptian art. Notes References Dieter Arnold, The Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture, I.B.Tauris, 2002 Nigel C. Strudwick, Texts from the Pyramid, SBL, 2005 Cambridge Ancient History by Cambridge University Press, 2000 Francesco Tiradritti, Arte egizia, Giunti, 2002 Lyon Sprague De Camp, Catherine Crook De Camp, Ancient Ruins and Archaeology, Doubleday, 1964 Ian Shaw, The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt'', Oxford University Press, 2003 See also List of Egyptian architects 26th-century BC Egyptian people Princes of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt Viziers of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt Ancient Egyptian architects Giza Plateau 26th-century BC deaths Great Pyramid of Giza