Compare the Egyptian statue of Mentuemhet from Karnak with the Greek statue known as the Anavysos Kouros. How are they alike and how are they different?

Mentuemhet from Karnak

This portrait honors Mentuemhet, Prince of the City (mayor) of Thebes and fourth Prophet of Amun around 690-656 BC. The style, intimate yet formal, exuding both strength of character and serenity, is an example of the return to Middle Kingdom aesthetics and values promoted by the Kushite kings of Dynasty 25.

Egyptian statue of Mentuemhet from Karnak

The Greek statues are liberated from the original stone block, where the Egyptian statues were not. This demonstrates the Greek idea of including motion rather than stability.The kouros are nude and absent of any attributes.The proportions of the body are slightly less idealized than those from Egypt.Male figures called kouros meaning

"youth" were always depicted nude.

Rigidly frontal

Emulates stance of Egyptian sculpture but is nude and arms and legs cut away from stone

Freestanding and able to move, in contrast to Egyptian works that are reliefs or are attached to stones

This particular kouros figure was said to have a funerary purpose, as it once stood over a grave in the countryside near Athens.

Statues such as this replaced the Geometric vases as the preferred form of grave marking replacing huge vases.Despite the similarity with the Egyptian prototype for figurative sculpture, these kouros figures differ in many significant ways.

Anavysos Kouros

Kouros  an Archaic Greek statue of a standing nude youth.

The Anavysos Kouros was an example of an archaic kouros. Intended as a grave marker to memorialize a boy that died in battle, he was not a portrait. More emphasis was placed on illustrating the body than the facial features. This is a late example of a kouros and shows just how far the Greeks had come in their understanding of the human body. He is round and proportionate with a realistically defined muscle structure. Although they borrowed the stiff striding position of the Egyptians, the Greeks added a smile to the face of archaic sculptures. This grin was called the "archaic smile" and was used at all times, even when inappropriate, such as the face of a dying figure. The purpose of this smile was to add a sense of life. These figures represented life, confidence and pride.

ARCHAIC

-powerful, rounded, athletic body documents the increasing interest of artists and their patrons in a more lifelike rendering of the human figure.
-archaic smile and wiglike hair echo the earlier style but the massive torso and limbs have carefully rendered, bulging muscularity, suggesting heroic strength
-still just a symbolic type, not a specific individua