martes, 31 de mayo de 2016

lion

Small statue in red terracotta of a lion seated on a plinth, representing the Meroitic deity Apedemak. The tail, shown on the left side, curves up following the shape of the body.

Present location

INSTITUT DE PAPYROLOGIE ET D'ÉGYPTOLOGIE, UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE III [02/049] LILLE

Inventory number

L 0624

Dating

MEROITIC PERIOD

Archaeological Site

NAQ`A

Category

FIGURINE/STATUETTE

Material

POTTERY

Technique

FORMED BY HAND

Height

15.7 cm

Bibliography

  • Geus Francis, Nubie, les cultures antiques du Soudan, catalogue d'exposition, Lille, 1994, p.221, n°309.
  • Gratien Brigitte, La Nubie au temps des pharaons, catalogue d'exposition, [Boulogne-sur-mer], 1975, p.28, n°311



bowl

Bowl
MEDIUM Faience, glazed
•Place Made: Egypt
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DATES 2nd-1st century B.C.E.
PERIOD Ptolemaic Period
DIMENSIONS 3 9/16 x Diam. 5 7/8 in. (9 x 15 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, 19th Dynasty to Roman Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
ACCESSION NUMBER 33.581
Brooklyn Museum
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Templo de Lúxor












Templo de Lúxor

Raised uraeus

Raised uraeus
The shield of the uraeus is divided into six fields; the two at the top are inlaid in blue, the middle ones in red, and the ones at the bottom in light green. There is a vertical tenon at the bottom.
BRONZE
Roeder, G., Ägyptische Bronzefiguren, Berlin (1956) # 520a.
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UNSPECIFIED FRAGMENT OF MUMMY TRAPPINGS

UNSPECIFIED FRAGMENT OF MUMMY TRAPPINGS
PAINTED ON STUCCO
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
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Cartonnage. Long band, placed on the legs of a mummy, with a column of text containing a prayer to Osiris for daily offerings on behalf of the singer of Ptah Aset-em-kheb daughter of Ta-kha-Kas. On each side of the column of text are depictions of eight mummiform gods. The two upper pairs are the four canopic gods. The style of the representations and the names point to the Ptolemaic Period.
Katalog "5000 Jahre Ägyptische Kunst", Wien (1962), Nr. 152.
Seipel, W. (ed.), Götter Menschen Pharaonen, Speyer (1993) = Dioses, Hombres, Faraones, Ciudad de México (1993) = Das Vermächtnis der Pharaonen, Zürich (1994) , Nr. 199.
Hüttner, M., Mumienamulette im Totenbrauchtum der Spätzeit, Afro-Pub, Beiträge zur Ägyptologie 12 (1995) 89.
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Fragmentary Relief of a King

Fragmentary Relief of a King
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
On View: Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, 19th Dynasty to Roman Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
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The individual represented here wears a wig with stylized, echeloned curls and a diadem with streamers. That he is a king is indicated by the cobra coiled around the diadem and rearing up at his brow.
Although once catalogued as a work of the fifteenth century B.C., the relief was subsequently realized to be a work of Dynasty XXVI, which also produced very elegant and highly finished sculptures both in the round and in relief.
MEDIUM Basalt
DATES ca. 664-525 B.C.E.
DYNASTY XXVI Dynasty
PERIOD Late Period
DIMENSIONS 2 11/16 x 5 1/2 x 2 in. (6.8 x 13.9 x 5.1 cm)
Brooklyn Museum
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The Goddess Mafdet



The Goddess Mafdet (?)
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
This fragmentary relief was excavated in the debris over and around a tenlple of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty (664–525 B.C.). However, its precise date, nature, and subject matter are uncertain. The female feline with lotus flower may be related to Hathor or some other goddess, and the falcon heads below her are possibly celestial symbols.
MEDIUM Limestone
•Place Made: Mendes, Nile Delta Region, Egypt
DATES 3rd century B.C.E.
PERIOD Ptolemaic Period
DIMENSIONS 11 x 16 1/8 x 3 3/4 in. (28 x 41 x 9.5 cm)
Brooklyn Museum
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stela

This small stela fragment has a winged sun disc in the lunette and underneath an offering scene with Re-Harakhty and a woman in adoration. The paint is partly preserved.
ABYDOS
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
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Model or Temple Offering of a Foot

Model or Temple Offering of a Foot
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
On View: Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, 19th Dynasty to Roman Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
The smooth surface at the top of this foot indicates that it is not a tragment from a sculpture but a complete, intact object, probably a temple offering (ex voto). Perhaps it represents an individual's request to a god for relief from an ailment. Contrary to popular belief, not all temple offerings were images of deities.
MEDIUM Limestone
•Possible Place Made: Sais (vicinity), Egypt
DATES ca. 664-30 B.C.E.
PERIOD Late Period to Ptolemaic Period
DIMENSIONS 3 15/16 x 2 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. (10 x 6.4 x 22.3 cm)
Brooklyn Museum
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Graeco-Egyptian. Fragment with Figure

Graeco-Egyptian. Fragment with Figure, 30 B.C.E-395 C.E. Marble, 6 5/8 x 5 5/16 x 1 11/16 in. (16.9 x 13.5 x 4.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.87. Creative Commons-BY

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Fragment with Figure
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
CULTURE Graeco-Egyptian
MEDIUM Marble
•Reportedly From: Dendera, Egypt
DATES 30 B.C.E-395 C.E.
PERIOD Early Roman Period (probably)
DIMENSIONS 6 5/8 x 5 5/16 x 1 11/16 in. (16.9 x 13.5 x 4.3 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
ACCESSION NUMBER 16.87
CREDIT LINE Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour
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Figure of a Seated Deity in Relief

Figure of a Seated Deity in Relief
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
On View: Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, 19th Dynasty to Roman Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
MEDIUM Glass
•Place Made: Saqqara, Egypt
DATES 305-30 B.C.E.
PERIOD Ptolemaic Period
DIMENSIONS 1 9/16 x 1 3/16 x 3/16 in. (4 x 3 x 0.5 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, 19th Dynasty to Roman Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
ACCESSION NUMBER 37.1147E
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Head of a Man

Head of a Man

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

On View: Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, 19th Dynasty to Roman Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
The somewhat broad and imprecise carving of this idealizing head may represent a provincial style of the region of Dendera. It may also be a harbinger of the dramatic decline in private statuary that occurred by the late first century B.C. A rosette is symbolic of light and regeneration, and a rosette diadem sometimes symbolizes posthumous deification. However, here the diadem may be the insignia of a provincial governorship or a priesthood.
MEDIUM Basalt
  • Possible Place Made: Dendera, Egypt
  • DATES 30 B.C.E.-14 C.E.
    PERIOD Roman Period
    DIMENSIONS Height: 15 7/16 in. (39.2 cm)
     
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    lunes, 30 de mayo de 2016

    tile

    TILE
    Head of a Hittite
    Elongated, white, beardless face with high cheekbones and wavy black hair falling down the back. Earlobes are pierced and on the head is a multi-coloured striped skull-cap.
    TELL EL-YHUDIYA
    FAYENCE
    20TH DYNASTY: RAMESSES III/USERMAATRE-MERIAMUN
    II 12947 (zusammen mit 3896e und 3899b); Ektakrom (gemeinsam mit 3896c und 3897a) Kitlitschka; Ektakrom Lessing 1997
    Katalog "Land der Bibel" (Mailand1997) II, Kat.Nr. 40, S. 33, Abb. S. 34.
    Seipel, W. (ed.), Götter Menschen Pharaonen, Speyer (1993) = Dioses, Hombres, Faraones, Ciudad de México (1993) = Das Vermächtnis der Pharaonen, Zürich (1994), Nr. 127.
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    Book of the Dead of Khaes-en-aset (Papyrus Fontana)

    Book of the Dead of Khaes-en-aset (Papyrus Fontana)
    A hieratic papyrus, the Book of the Dead for Khaes-en-aset
    : Chapter of the Book of the Dead and representation of the Divine Tribunal.
    PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
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    domingo, 29 de mayo de 2016

    The mastaba of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep

    Niankhkhnum, right, is comfortably installed in a litter (view 73) carried by six servants, in the centre of whom is a dwarf named Khednes. The dwarf is represented unclothed and carries a clothes box on his shoulders. Two men precede the porters, the first is a barber the second a funerary priest. The latter has a dog behind him on a leash. The dog, which belongs to the breed of slughi (or saluki), seems to be a favourite dog of the deceased and is called Hekenen. Behind Niankhkhnum are three men portrayed one above the other. The middle one appears unclothed and has a clothes sack thrown over his shoulder. Because he is the only unclothed person in the retinue, if one discounts the unclothed dwarf, he seems to occupy a relatively low position within the ranks of servants of the deceased. The other two men behind the deceased are funerary priests, the top one also being a manicurist and the other a barber.
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    The mastaba of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep

    shabti

    Shabti
    A mummiform shabti from a mould and baked afterwards. The details were applied in colour. The body is yellow, the wig presumably dark blue, the lower ends of the braids yellow. Both the hoes and the basket on the back were painted. On the front there is a column of hieroglyphs.
    22ND DYNASTY
    Shabti for Mut-nefret
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    Official Bes from the XXVI dynasty of Egypt

    Egyptian sculpture from the XXVI dinasty, 660-610 before our era; limestone, height 32,2 cm, width 20,9 cm.



    mastaba of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep


    Between the two doors of appearance is the common image field contains the representation of the two deceased embracing. Unlike the two previous similar scenes, their heads don't approach each other but are, despite the embrace, clearly separated from each other. They both have their natural hair, both wear broad necklaces and a formal kilt with a decorative belt-buckle. Niankhkhnum stands to the left, Khnumhotep to the right, both facing each other. Niankhkhnum holds the left forearm of Khnumhotep with his left hand, which passes in front of latter; Khnumhotep holds his right arm behind the back of Niankhkhnum and puts his right hand on the right shoulder of his brother.
    Above their heads, in two vertical columns each, their names and titles are again beautifully inscribed in raised relief (view 125): "The manicurist of the king, the supervisor of the manicurists of the palace, the confidant of the king, the one whom his lord loves, ........".
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    The mastaba of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep

     The mastaba of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep