sábado, 31 de enero de 2015

Gold openwork plaque showing Amenenhat IV


Gold openwork plaque showing  Amenenhat IV



Probably from Byblos (modern Lebanon)
12th Dynasty, around 1795 BC
Amenemhat IV offering ointment to Atum
The purpose of this plaque is uncertain. As there are no suspension loops or other fastenings, it is unlikely to be a pectoral (ornament worn on the chest). It is possible that it was used to decorate a larger object such as a box or other item of furniture.
The plaque was made using the technique called 'ajouré'. The design is cut out of sheet metal by using a chisel to punch around the outline; the Egyptian craftsman did not possess shears or fine saws. To get over the difficulty of producing smooth edges, strips of metal were soldered onto the base plate to provide cells into which inlay could be added. This technique was often used to produce pectorals and other pieces of jewellery.
Openwork pieces without further adornment are quite rare. Here the details on the figures and hieroglyphs have been chased onto the metal using a fine chisel and mallet. The work is of extremely high quality, particularly the delicate modelling of the muscles of the legs of the figures.
The discovery of the plaque at Byblos shows that Egypt had contacts, probably through trade, with this important port during the Middle Kingdom (2040-1750 BC).
E.R. Russmann, Eternal Egypt: masterworks of (University of California Press, 2001)
I. Shaw and P. Nicholson (eds.), British Museum dictionary of A (London, The British Museum Press, 1995)
S. Quirke and A.J. Spencer, The British Museum book of anc (London, The British Museum Press, 1992)

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TT51, the tomb of Userhat or , also called Neferhabef .

TT51, the tomb of Userhat or , also called Neferhabef .

 Sheikh Abd el-Qurna

 Behind the male servants is almost certainly his wife, although she is not identified in the text above her. She is accompanied by two other similarly dressed females. All three wear a black wig, on top of which is placed a cone of ointment and an open lotus blossom; the wife's cone is also decorated with a ring of beads. The wigs are held in place by a coloured band, the wife has another band lower down and protruding in front of it is a silver earring. In front of the wife, standing facing her, is a small male presenting to her a basket of offerings. Whilst, at the side of the three women stands a young naked girl. The women have their hands raised and are probably chanting the applause to the king's generosity in proving all these gifts, some of which a placed on a table in front of the wife. This chant is quoted in the text above: "[Great is] the wealth of he who recognises those given by Amon to make glad his heart, Pharaoh, the lord of Egypt. You shall give wealth to generations yet unborn, 0 Pharaoh, lord of every one of us". In front of the raised arms of the wife, the artist represented a small structural pedestal with gold necklaces (see the image above and the line drawing detail). The scene actually looks like one of reward, in the same spirit as the ceremony where the applicant receives the gold of honour from the king, even the chariot awaiting the master is there. Behind Userhat's wife, the two women hold a round red object, but it is uncertain what it might be.


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techo de la tumba

Scarab pendant

From Egypt
Reign of Senwosret II, 12th Dynasty, around 1890 BC
Winged scarab of electrum, inlaid with carnelian, green feldspar, and lapis lazuli
This piece of jewellery is a pendant in the form of a winged scarab. It is made of electrum (a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver) inlaid with carnelian, green feldspar and lapis lazuli. Two small tubes on the underside of the object were used to suspend it.
The central ornament forms the praenomen (first name) of King Senwosret II, Khakheperre. The name is composed of the sun disc (phonetic re/ra) scarab (phonetic kheper) and the rising sun sign beneath (phonetic kha). Because the beetle lays its eggs in a ball of dung and pushes it around, the Egyptians used it as an image and metaphor for the passage of the sun across the sky. The young scarab beetles hatch out of the ball of dung (equivalent to the sun), which emphasizes the concept of new life and rebirth through the sun. Either side of the Kha hieroglyph is a papyrus flower, another symbol of rebirth. A similar object was excavated in a tomb dating to the Middle Kingdom (2040-1750 BC) at Riqqa in 1912-13.
R. Parkinson, Cracking codes: the Rosetta St (London, The British Museum Press, 1999)
C.A.R. Andrews, Catalogue of Egyptian antiqu-5 (London, The British Museum Press, 1981)
C.A.R. Andrews, Ancient Egyptian jewellery (London, The British Museum Press, 1996)

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jueves, 29 de enero de 2015

Statuette

Statuette

Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Date: ca. 1550–1295 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Dra Abu el-Naga, Carnarvon/Carter, 1906–1911
Medium: Pottery
Dimensions: H. 24 cm (9 7/16 in)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1912
Accession Number: 12.181.216
 
 
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Inner coffin of Gua

From the tomb of Gua, Deir el-Bersha, Egypt
12th Dynasty, 1985-1795 BC
Decorated with excerpts from the Coffin Texts
The decoration of the inner coffin of Gua is similar to that of the outer coffin. The inscriptions on all sides of the exterior are incised and filled with pigment. The same technique has been used for the wedjat eyes. These were to allow the mummy, which was placed on its side, to see outside the coffin towards the rising sun.
The interior decoration is painted, with the same subject matter as the interior of the outer coffin. The twisting and turning black lines are maps of the Underworld, designed to aid the deceased reach the Afterlife. Spells from the Coffin Texts were also inscribed in the coffin to provide further help. Developments in funerary belief meant that from the Middle Kingdom (about 2040-1750 BC), everyone could aspire to reaching the kind of Afterlife previously restricted to the dead king.
As well as being included in the tombs, furniture, clothing, tools, weapons and jewellery were also depicted on the coffin, as an extra insurance that they would accompany him to the Afterlife. The funerary meal was also represented, as was a false door, allowing the ka (spirit) of the deceased to come and go. The offering list guaranteed that the food would be provided eternally.
I. Shaw and P. Nicholson (eds.), British Museum dictionary of A (London, The British Museum Press, 1995)
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templo de Dendera

templo de Dendera

Isis

A statue of Isis, sister-wife of Osiris, god of the dead, seated on a throne. She wears the crown characteristic of Hathor with whom she is often associated. From the tomb of Psammetik at Saqqara. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: end of 26th dynasty c. 530 BC. Place of Origin: Saqqara. Material Size: Schist (Greywacke) 90 cms H.. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Egyptian Museum, Cairo . Location: 49.

Ptolomeo VI

Portrait head of Ptolemy VI Philometer. A granite copy made by an Egyptian artist after a Greek marble original in the same museum. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: Ptolemaic period, 180-145 AD. Place of Origin: Canopus. Material Size: Granite. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, Egypt. Location: 83.

miércoles, 28 de enero de 2015

Philae

Philae viewed from the Nile. The main Pylon and the west colonnade hall of the temple of Isis.The construction of the temple started during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus and was completed by his successor Ptolemy III Euergetes. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: Ptolemaic. Place of Origin: Philae. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive . Location: 32.

ataud

Detail from coffin of Nespawershepi, chief scribe of the Temple of Amun. The goddess Hathor in the form of a sacred cow, a symbol of the hope of the deceased for continued existence. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: 21st dynasty, c. 984 BC. Place of Origin: Western Thebes. Material Size: painted wood. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge . Location: 39.

toys

Present location

RIJKSMUSEUM VAN OUDHEDEN [06/001] LEIDEN

Inventory number

EG-ZM2736

Dating

11TH DYNASTY

Archaeological Site

UPPER EGYPT

Category

FIGURINE/STATUETTE

Material

WOOD; FAIENCE; CLAY

Technique

UNSPECIFIED; WOOD-TECHNIQUE; FAYENCE; FORMED BY HAND

Width

4.3 cm

Depth

17.3 cm

Bibliography

  • Leemans, C., Aegyptische Monumenten van het Nederlandse Museum van Oudheden te Leiden II.23, Leiden 1865, pl. CCXLIII, 493.

scorpion

Present location

MUSÉE ROYAL DE MARIEMONT [07/009] MARIEMONT

Inventory number

Ac.98/88

Dating

PREDYNASTIC PERIOD

Archaeological Site

UNKNOWN

Category

UNSPECIFIED

Material

FLINT/CHERT

Technique

HEWN

Width

3.5 cm

Bibliography

  • Cl. DERRIKS, «Un scorpion en silex», in Bulletin trimestriel du Musée royal de Mariemont, 84, 1998, p. 12; S. HENDRICKX, D. HUYGE, B. ADAMS, «Le scorpion en silex du Musée royal de Mariemont et les silex figuratifs de l'Égypte pré-et protodynastique», in Cahiers de Mariemont, 28-29, 1997-1998, p. 6-33; «Choix d’acquisition 1998-2001. Antiquités d’Égypte et du Proche-Orient», in Cahiers de Mariemont, 32-33, 2005, p. 120;
  • Cl. DERRIKS et L. DELVAUX, Antiquités égyptiennes au Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, 2009, p. 52-53.

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Family group of Amenemheb

The family group of the Theban governor Amenemheb is a remarkable monument of post-Amarna art. Amenemheb is represented embraced by his wife Taisennefret (at the left) and his mother Kal (at the right). He wears a long shirt with low-cut neck and wide pursed sleeves and an apron reaching his ankles; the apron is girded by a wide ribbon with its fringed end lying on his knees. he wears a long wig parted in the middle, its flaps reaching his breast; natural hair is shown on the forehead dropped from under the wig. Both Taisennefret and Kal wear the same long pleated dresses, wide collars with pendants and elaborate long wigs consisting of numerous braids; the wigs are crowned by lotus wreaths, natural hair parted in the middle is seen on the foreheads. The chair is treated realistically, a soft cushion deflated by the weight of the bodies is unique.
On the garment of Amenemheb there is a vertical column of hieroglyphs (inscription A); inscriptions B and C are placed on the laps of the women. The back of the statue forms a kind of rectangular "stela" with two vertical columns in the centre (inscription D) and one column along the right and the left edge (inscriptions F, F).
The shapes of the wigs are characteristic of the post-Amarna epoch, from Tutankhamun down to the beginning of the Nineteenth Dynasty. The round and somewhat flat faces as well as wrinkles at the necks testify to the same date. The statue comes from the tomb A.8 at Dira Abu el-Naga.

Present location

STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM [10/002] PETERSBURG

Inventory number

740

Dating

TUTANKHAMUN/NEBKHEPERURE (not before); SCORPION/SEREQ; SETHOS I/MENMAATRE (not after)

Archaeological Site

UNKNOWN

Category

STATUE

Material

GRANITE

Technique

HEWN

Height

91 cm


martes, 27 de enero de 2015

Tomb of Harkhuf.

Tomb of Harkhuf.
Ernesto Schiaparelli (1856-1928) - Una tomba egiziana inedita della VIa dinastia: con inscrizioni storiche e geografiche, Rome 1892

painting

Herkhuf


karnak

Column in the form of a stylised lotus plant from Karnak. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: New Kingdom. Place of Origin: Karnak, Thebes. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ . Location: 23.

El Khokha



Es una de las seis necrópolis situadas en el Valle de los Nobles. Cuenta con cinco tumbas de nomarcas del Imperio Antiguo y más de 50 tumbas de las dinastías XVIII, XIX y XX, así como algunas del Primer período intermedio y del Período tardío de Egipto.


coffin of Nespawershepi

Detail from coffin of Nespawershepi, chief scribe of the Temple of Amun. The goddess Hathor in the form of a sacred cow, a symbol of the hope of the deceased for continued existence. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: 21st dynasty, c. 984 BC. Place of Origin: Western Thebes. Material Size: painted wood. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge . Location: 39.

escena del templo de Mednet Habu de Ramses III

escena del templo de Mednet Habu de Ramses III

maqueta frenaría de la tumba de Meketré, en ella podemos ver trabajadores realizando trabajos textiles.

maqueta funeraría de la tumba de Meketré, en ella podemos ver trabajadores realizando trabajos textiles.

lunes, 26 de enero de 2015

tumba de Sennefer

tumba de Sennefer

Sennefer,

Group of the nobleman and mayor of Thebes Sennefer, his wife Sentnay and their daughter Mutnefert between them; other daughters in relief on sides. Granite from Karnak, reign of Amenhotep III, 18th dynasty, New Kingdom. Cairo, Egyptian Museum CG 42126 (JE 36574).

Seated figure of Mentuemhat in Neues Museum, Berlin

Seated figure of Mentuemhat in Neues Museum, Berlin

Three ushabti of Pediamenopet. Bologna, MCA

Three ushabti of Pediamenopet. Bologna, MCA

clepsidra

Clepsidra egipcia, de la época de Ptolomeo II, hallada en el Iseo Campense (Roma).

Scène de pressurage par torsion. Fresque de la tombe de Puyemre à Thèbes

Scène de pressurage par torsion. Fresque de la tombe de Puyemre à Thèbes

Face of Seniseneb, Tomb of Puyemre

Face of Seniseneb, Tomb of Puyemre

Artist: Norman de Garis Davies (1865–1941)
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Reign: Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
Date: ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes
Medium: Tempera on paper
Dimensions: H. 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in); w. 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in) scale 1:1 Framed (with 30.4.211): H. 29.4 (11 9/16 in.); W. 25.5 cm (10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1930
Accession Number: 30.4.211

Decorated Doorway to North Chapel, Tomb of Puyemre

Decorated Doorway to North Chapel, Tomb of Puyemre

Artist: Norman de Garis Davies (1865–1941)
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Reign: Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
Date: ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes
Medium: Tempera on Paper
Dimensions: facsimile: h. 61 cm (24 in); w. 34.5 cm (13 9/16 in) scale 1:10 framed: h. 64.1 cm (25 1/4 in); w. 38.1 cm (15 in)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1930
Accession Number: 30.4.15
 
 
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Stele of Amennakhte

Stele of Amennakhte19th dynasty, around 1295-1186 BC
Limestone
Rectangular limestone stela of Amennakht, possibly originating
from the sanctuary of Ptah and Meretseger. Most probably
intended to depict the sanctuary with its two hills. The relief
ornamentation of the four sacred cobras in the upper part of the
stela is intended to be a symbolic representation of the "Great
Peak of the West". The goddess shown on the right, personifies
the peak, and is called "Isis the Great". She is depicted with
bovine horns and a solar disk like Hathor. Amennakht is shown
kneeling inside a rectangle that was intended to represent a
chapel in the sanctuary.
Height: 43 cm
Width: 30 cm
Formerly from Drovetti's collection
Inv. cat. 1521 = CGT 50059


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domingo, 25 de enero de 2015

f fragment depicting men force feeding cranes

A relief fragment depicting men force feeding cranes. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: 5th dynasty c.2494-2345 BC. Place of Origin: Saqqara, mastaba of Sopduhotep. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Egyptian Museum, Berlin . Location: 66.

Summer

Mounted on a model are hair ornaments, earrings and necklaces. Jewellery of this kind was worn by many of the women attendants of Queen Pu-Abi. Found in the royal burial pits excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley. Culture: Sumerian. Date/Period: c. 2500 BC. Place of Origin: Ur, Sumeria, Ancient Iraq. Material Size: Gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ British Museum, London . Location: 08.

prostrate captives

A base of a royal statue which shows the heads of prostrate captives. It expresses the concept of the king's right and duty to subjugate foreign lands. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: Probably 3rd dyn. c. 2686 - 1613 BC. Place of Origin: Found at San el-Hagar ( Tanis ). Material Size: Granite. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Egyptian Museum, Cairo . Location: 45.

A faience sculpture

A faience sculpture, from the New Kingdom of Egypt, 18th/19th dynasty, c. 1500–1300 BC

scene of circumcision

Ancient Egyptian carved scene of circumcision, from the inner northern wall of the Temple of Khonspekhrod at the Precinct of Mut, Luxor, Egypt. Eighteenth dynasty, Amenhotep III, c. 1360 BCE.

Kyky tomb, scene

The goddess is seated under a richly decorated kiosk. At the top of the roof is a frieze of cobra adorned with solar discs, which rests a coving, at the lower edge of which is a "traditional frieze" formed of a succession of coloured rectangles. From the coving hangs a red and black banner. The small structure is supported by fine wooden papyriform columns, to which red ribbons are attached, flowing outwards. The umbels of papyrus are surmounted by a representation of the goddess Hathor: a woman's head with ears of a cow, her wig is crowned by the goddess's characteristic sistrum. A floral garland is stretched between the columns.
Mut is seated on the ancient square-shaped chair with a small backrest. She wears a blue-green skin-tight dress with two shoulder straps. She has bracelets on her wrists and arms, and a broad necklace around her neck.
On top of her long black hair she wears a headdress in the form of a vulture, which is her emblem. This is surmounted by the royal Double Crown, which shows pictorially the facts which Kyky declares (and which is inscribed in front of her): Mut is Mistress of the Heavens and Queen of the Gods.
In her hands, the goddess holds a papyriform sceptre, which is not specific to her, and an ankh-sign.


Tomb N° 409 is situated in West Thebes, in the Assassif, close to the temple of Deir el-Bahari


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Osiris

Osiris
mito
templo de Dendera

sábado, 24 de enero de 2015

Isis y Osiris, templo de Seti I, Abydos.

Isis y Osiris, templo de Seti I, Abydos.

Lower half stela of couple on chair

Lower half stela of couple on chair, woman on lap of man offering table to the right. Country of Origin: Ancient Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ The Louvre Museum, Paris E11624

Ptolemaic or early Roman carving of three seated figures

Unusual late Ptolemaic or early Roman carving of three seated figures in a schematic style, from a single block of basalt. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Graeco-Roman. Date/Period: Late Ptolemaic/early Roman period. Place of Origin: Alexandria. Material Size: Basalt. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, Egypt. Location: 83.

Hierapolis

Hierapolis was built during the 2nd C BC and become part of the Roman empire in 129 BC. The road into the city passes through the largest ancient necropolis in Asia Minor, with tombs from Hellenistic to early Christian times. Typical Lycian style sarcophagus. Country of Origin: Turkey. Culture: Hellenistic. Date/Period: 2nd C BC. Place of Origin: Hierapolis. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ . Location: 07A

Detail from the linen shroud of the official Meh.

Detail from the linen shroud of the official Meh. The text is taken from the judgement chapters of the Book of the Dead. An example of the illustration of shrouds bearing funerary texts, an innovation begun in the reign of Hatshepsut. The judgement scene is illustrated. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: New Kingdom,18th Dynasty,1550-1295BC. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Louvre Museum, Paris . Location: 39.

mace head Scorpion

Detail of a votive mace-head used not as a weapon but as a ceremonial object conveying a religious concept. The two signs next to the figure of the King have been interpreted as his title and name, King 'Scorpion', who may have been the predecessor of King Narmer. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: 1st dynasty c.3000. Place of Origin: Nekhen (Hierakonpolis). Material Size: Limestone H:25cm. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Ashmolean Museum, Oxford . Location: 35.

bearer

Wooden statuette of a bearer from the tomb of Niankhpepi, 'supervisor of Upper Egypt, chancellor of the king of lower Egypt,' at Meir. The figure wears a white kilt and short wig, and carries a rucksack and basket. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Pharaonic, Old Kingdom. Date/Period: 6th dynasty c.2289-2255 BC. Place of Origin: Meir, tomb of Niankhpepi. Material Size: Wood, h = 36.5 cm. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Egyptian Museum, Cairo . Location: 40.

Mereruka

A scene in relief in the tomb of the vizier Mereruka. Fowl hunting. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: 6th dynasty. Place of Origin: c.2345-2323 BC Saqqara. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ . Location: 59.