Due to the general influence of the government workshops, artwork in the early 12 Period had a

homogeneity of style. It was at this era that the level of creative creation for the top elements of
society reached a high peak that was never surpassed, though it was equaled throughout
subsequent periods.[26] Egypt's affluence in the late Twelfth Dynasty was mirrored in the quality of
the raw materials used for royal and private monuments.

An Osiride statue of Mentuhotep II, the first king of the Middle Kingdom; painted sandstone; 138 47
cm; Egyptian Museum (Cairo)
Thebes portrait head; about 2000 BC; stone; Egyptian Museum of Berlin (Germany)
Scarab; about 1980 BC; gold; 1.1 cm overall; Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, Ohio).