Mummy of Katebet

Mummy of Katebet
Late 18th dynasty
about 1300 BC
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From Thebes
This mummy was discovered in the 1820 in a tomb , togheter with the mummy, probably her husband, called Qenna
Britih Museum

Mud jar sealing

Mud jar sealing

Identifier mma_mud_jar_sealing_573268

Accession_number 12.187.43

Date ca. 3200–2650 B.C.

Medium Clay, mud

Provenance Excavated by the Egyptian Research Account and the British School of Archaeology in Egypt at Tarkhan. Received by the ERA and the BSAE from the Egyptian government in the division of finds. Allotted ot the Museum, 1912.
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What Clay, Vessels, Jars, Wax, Mud, Africa, Egypt, ca. 3200–2650 B.C., Clay, mud, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Figure of Qebehsenuef from Mummy of Tiye

Figure of Qebehsenuef from Mummy of Tiye
group h. 4–5 cm (1 9/16–1 15/16)
1000–945 B.C.
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Provenance Museum excavations, 1923-24. Acquired by the Museum in the division of finds, 1925
Met Museum
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EA374

• EA374

• Description

  Amennakht's votive stela: this round-topped limestone stela was dedicated by the Scribe of the Place of Truth, Amennakht, and depicts him kneeling in adoration before the enthroned figure of the goddess of the Theban Peak, Meretseger, holding a lotus-flower and ankh sign. Neither figure has eyes, which may be an oversight, or may relate to the substance of the text. There
  
  
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  • 20th Dynasty

  
  

  • Praises for your spirit, Meretseger,
    Mistress of the West, by the Scribe of the
    Place of Truth, Amennakht true-of-voice;
    he says: 'Be praised in peace, O Lady of
    the West, Mistress who turns herself to
    grace! You made me see darkness in the
    day. I shall declare your power to other
    people. Be gracious to me in your grace!'

  • Inscription Comment

    Incised in seven vertical lines in yellow. These express the donor's personal piety in Middle Egyptian. Such hymns and prayers are characteristic of the Ramesside Period, but the phenomenon can be traced back to the Middle Kingdom and was not necessarily a religious innovation of the New Kingdom. The text is a penitential prayer to the local goddess; other stelae record instances of divine grace where penitence was rewarded, but here only the donors request is recorded. The text mentions 'darkness by day'; this may refer to literal blindness (a common affliction in Egypt, and one dreaded by visual artists such as the inhabitants of Deir el-Medina), but 

  
  
  
  
  The donor is possibly the Amennakht who was the author of 'The Teaching of Amennakht', but the name was common at Deir el-Medina. The scribe Amennakht, son of Ipuy, is well known from Deir el-Medina. He was appointed to office in year 16 of Ramses II and is last attested under Ramses VI (M. L. Bierbrier, 'The late New Kingdom in Egypt (c. 1300-664 B.C.): a genealogical and chronological investigation' (London, 1975), 39-40; K.A. Kitchen, 'Ramesside Inscriptions' Vol. 5 (Oxford: Blackwell Press), 645-53, K.A. Kitchen, 'Ramesside Inscriptions' Vol. 6 (Oxford: Blackwell Press), 202-4, 376-9). It is uncertain where the stela was set up, but it was presumably in a sacred context, where it could be dedicated to the goddess.
  Bibliography:
  B. Porter & R. Moss, 'Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings' I (Part 2) (Oxford: Clarendon Press), 716;
  B. Gunn,'The religion of the poor in ancient Egypt', in 'Journal of Egyptian Archaeology' 3 (1916), 81-94, esp. 87;
  K.A. Kitchen, 'Ramesside Inscriptions' Vol. 5 (Oxford, 1983), 645;
  A.I. Sidek, 'Popular Religion in Egypt during the New Kingdom', in 'Hildesheimer ägyptologische Beiträge' 27 (Hildesheim, 1987), 201, 203, 205;
  M. Bierbrier and R.B. Parkinson, 'Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae etc. in the British Museum' 12 (London, 1993), pls. 50-1;
  'Les artistes de Pharaon : Deir el-Médineh et la Vallée des Rois', (Paris, 2002), p. 281 [227];
  The British Museum, 'A guide to the Egyptian galleries (Sculpture)' (London, 1909), 150 (no. 541).
  
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papyrus

Papyrus



Book of the Dead; sheet 6(two fragments); red and black ink; full colour vignettes; red and yellow border
Height: 38 centimetres (frame)
Length: 45.8 centimetres (frame

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Antinous

Antinous as Dionysos, known as Lansdowne Antinous. Marble, Roman Imperial artwork, ca. 130-140 AD. The crown, nostrils, lips and torso have been restored. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, GR.100.1937.

EA11626

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    EA11626

   

  Description

  Solid-cast copper alloy figure of a lepidotus(?) fish with incised detail and a tang below.

• Culture/period

  • Late Period
  
  
  • Height: 8.2 centimetres
  • Length: 13.2 centimetres
  • Width: 1.6 centimetres
  
  
  • EA11626
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Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Bochard.

Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Bochard.

writing-box / model

writing-box / model

• EA35878

• Description

  Model of a scribe's writing-box: made of wood, slightly worn and abraded. The rectangular chest has two feet, and is painted white, with red and black bands. The sliding lid of the chest is white with red bands at the two ends, and is shown open to reveal five papyrus rolls laid lengthways inside. On the open lid is the scribe's palette, painted in red and black. Beside it are the remains of a peg with which a circular object, perhaps a pot or another
  
  
  

  • Height: 3.1 centimetres
  • Width: 4.7 centimetres
  • Depth: 9.1 centimetres (max)

  
  This is a unique depiction of how papyrus rolls were placed in chests for storage.
  The chest was presumably part of an elaborate model manufactured to be placed in an official's tomb, showing the tomb owner's scribes at work.
  
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Shabti figure

Shabti figure, wood and paint; ca. 1293-1185 BCE (Nineteenth Dynasty), from Sedment, Egypt, 19 x 6.3 x 4.5 cm. William Flinders Petrie Donation, 1921, KM 1903.

The Petrie Gift in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

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Ostracon

Ostracon

EA29511


Description

Limestone ostracon: with remains of seven lines of red-painted hieratic text, Chapter 68 of the 'Book of the Dead', on the verso and a further nine lines of text on the recto

XIX dynasty
Height: 14.6 centimetres (max)
Width: 19.1 centimetres (max)

Remains of sixteen lines of red-painted hieratic text - Chapter 68 of the 'Book of the Dead', on both sides (seven lines on one side and a further nine lines on the other).


Inscription from: Book of the Dead (Chapter 68)
Associated Title: Coffin Texts (Spell 225)

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Fragment of limestone relief

relief
Fragment of limestone relief depicting an oarsman; traces of red and blue colouring.


EA914


Length: 18.8 centimetres (max)
Width: 13 centimetres (max)

Department

Ancient Egypt & Sudan

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Necklace of faience

Necklace of faience beads with carnelian amulet, ca. 1570-1293 BCE (Eighteenth Dynasty), from Gurob, Egypt, 12.2 x 2 cm. William Flinders Petrie Donation, 1921, KM 1879


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EA11549

EA11549

Description

Full: Front
Wooden figure of two monkeys on a rectangular plinth.
© The Trustees of the British Museum

EA10098,1

EA10098,1
Description
Recto
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Book of the Dead of Men...; sheet 1; black outline vignettes; Hieratic text in red and black; illustrates funerary jewellery presecribed by Chapters 156-9 of the 'Book of the Dead': a Girdle tie of Isis, a vulture, a collar and a papyrus column.
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Mosher, Catalogue of the Books of the Dead in the BM: The Papyrus of Hor, (2001), p.26 n.145, p.58 n.19, p.59 n.22, p.79 n.2&9&11, p.84 n.2&19.
Bierbrier (ed.), Papyrus: structure and usage (BM OP 60), p.15 plate c--comment on stainingSee S. Quirke, 'The Last Books of the Dead?' in W. V. Davies (ed), Studies in Egyptian Antiquities: A Tribute to T. G. H. James (BM
Papyrus Survey: Condition Details: Papyrus: dark, loss, brittle, stained, deposit Black ink Red ink Backed: brown paper Transferred to horizontal storage 30 dec 94 Mount Details: Sandwich: glass (warped) Sandwich: board Binding: leather (deteriorated) Object Priority: B Mount Priority: B Overall Condition: E Curatorial condition comment: poor

Textil coptic

Textil coptic

EA37131

Large fragment of tapestry on paired threads; the centre of the tabula is decorted with a square medallion framed by two solid lines - first red then blue; the medallion is decorated with a very stylized human figure? ( or centaur?) and a stylized bird; on a red background; the figure is in beige with a red outline; the central medallion is surrounded by 10 very stylized human

Height: 31 centimetres
Width: 26 centimetres

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Pahery

This scene occupies the middle part of this area of the wall.
So, Paheri and his wife Henut-er-neheh, who closely embrace, are represented in pseudo perspective, seated under a light canopy (see rb-0868). The nomarch holds in his hands the two instruments of his power: the staff and the sekhem-scepter. Henut-er-neheh holds in her hand an open lotus flower, symbol of rebirth.
It represents a scene of presentation, rather similar to a presentation of tribute to the king, whic...h shows Paheri, to whom six, arranged on two registers, bring all sorts of food and drinks.
This is done in the presence of the parents of Henut-er-neheh : her father, her mother, and her son " the officer of his Majesty, Teti " (see rb-0860-01). Two women placed in front of them get them ointments and what could be cones of ointment to place on the head. One among them, Khnemet, is " musician of Nekhbet ". Behind these three main characters, eight other sons and daughters are represented. They are now almost obliterated

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Stela of Tiberius

Stela of Tiberius

The stela has a rounded top with a winged sun disk; two uraei hang down from it, one wearing the white crown and the other wearing the red crown. Underneath is a representation of Tiberius presenting an offering to Mut and Khons. He kneels and holds out a little sphinx wearing the red crown and holding a small offering bowl. The emperor is dressed in a short kilt with a triangular apron; he wears a collar and the blue khepresh-crown with a uraeus and ribbons.
Mut is seated on a throne, clad in an undecorated long gown. She wears a collar and a long wig with a vulture head dress and the Double Crown. She holds a papyrus staff in her right hand and an ankh-sign in her left hand.
The falcon-headed god Khons is also seated on a throne, wearing a short kilt; on his head is a crescent with a sun disk and uraeus. In his right hand he holds the uas-sceptre and in the left an ankh-sign.
Each figure is on a platform; above them are legenda, below the scene are seven horizontal lines of text. Above the legenda is an outstretched sky-sign, supported by two uas-sceptres standing on the lower text line.

Present location ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM [06/002] AMSTERDAM
Inventory number APM 7763
Dating TIBERIUS
Archaeological Site UNKNOWN
Category STELA
Material SANDSTONE
Technique LOW RELIEF
Height 66.3 cm
Width 44 cm
Depth 13 cm


Translation
(1) May Horus live, the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Lord of the Two Lands: Tiberius, son of Re, Lord of Appearances: Caesar, given life. He has made a great work
(2) in addition to the monument of his father Caesar for his mother Mut the Great, mistress of Isheru,
(3) the great one in Thebes, mistress of creation, the adoration of sin(?) is her abomination, (...?)
(4) a large temenos wall protecting her sacred quarters and the temple ...(?) of the sun disk and this kiosk,
(5) (excellent is the work of his throat??), may her purity be great, to lead away
(6) all [...] of the people, to go out in Isheru-the-great, to implore
(7) Shai (Fate) from Meskhenet (the goddess of birth) and ... from ...

(8) The king of Upper and Lower Egypt, the lord of the Two Lands: Tiberius,
(9) the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, the lord of appearances: Caesar,
(10) given all life,
(11) durability and prosperity
(12) like Re eternally.

(13) Words to be spoken by Mut the Great, mistress
(14) of the divine Isheru,
(15) the great one in Thebes.

(16) Words to be spoken by Khons in Thebes,
(17) the good merciful one, Shu the Elder,
(18) the elder [son] of Re.

Bibliography•H.P. Blok, Een wijdingsstèle van Tiberius, Bulletin Antieke Beschaving IV,2 (1929), 6-8
•G.A.S. Snijder (ed.), Algemeene Gids Allard Pierson Museum - Amsterdam, 1956 (tweede druk), 9/pl. IV (nr. 42)
•H. de Meulenaere, L'oeuvre architecturale de Tibère a Thèbes, OLP 9 (1978), 70
•W.M. van Haarlem (ed.), CAA Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, Fasc. 1, 1986, 60-62
•R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, W.M. van Haarlem, Gids voor de afdeling Egypte, Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, 1986, 24/fig. 6 (nr. 4)
•R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Egypte, geschenk van de Nijl, 1992, 176-177/fig. 149


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Small glass plaque with lotus capital

Small glass plaque with lotus capital
The object is a slice of a rectangular multicolored bar composed of glass rods, forming a lotus capital cased in opaque red glass. The interior of the capital is opaque black and yellow, the other elements are opaque black and white, with a convex green bar on top, while the contours are in translucent blue.
Probably, the slice was to be used as an inlay.

Present location ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM [06/002] AMSTERDAM
Inventory number APM 7726

Archaeological Site UNKNOWN
Category UNSPECIFIED
Material GLASS
Technique MILLEFIORI
Height 1.12 cm
Width 1.12 cm
Depth 0.3 cm



Bibliography•G.A.S. Snijder (ed.), Algemeene Gids Allard Pierson Museum - Amsterdam, 1956 (tweede druk), 191 (nr. 1756)
•R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Glas onder de loupe, MVAPM 28 (1983), 7/fig. 4
•W.M. van Haarlem (ed.), CAA Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, Fasc. 1, 1986, 100

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mummy mask

Mummy mask of a woman

The face is broad, with a big nose, a small mouth and a marked chin with a dimple. The hair is done in waves, ending in several rows of different small curls, among which corkscrew-curls. On top of the head, twisted strands of hair are tied to a B-shaped knot. The ears are free and wear earrings, consisting of rings with three small balls stringed onto them.

Present location ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM [06/002] AMSTERDAM
Inventory number APM 725

Archaeological Site UNKNOWN
Category MASK
Material PLASTER
Technique STUCCO; PAINTED ?
Height 22.7 cm
Width 17.6 cm
Depth 11.6 cm



Bibliography•C.W. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Catalogus eener verzameling Egyptische, Grieksche, Romeinsche en andere oudheden, 1909, 62-63/pl.3,1 (nr. 42)
•diversen (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam), Uit de schatkamers der Oudheid (tentoonstellingscatalogus), 1938, 88 (nr. 287)
•G. Grimm, Die römischen Mumienmasken aus Ägypten, 1974, 108/pl. 81,1
•W.M. van Haarlem, R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Gids voor de afdeling Egypte, Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, 1986, 42
•W.M. van Haarlem, CAA Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, Fasc. IV, 1997, 81-83


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Mummy mask

Mummy mask


The mask was intended to cover the mummy until just under the chest. It wears a long wig; the face is gilded, and the eyes are inlaid with stone and glass. A kind of stylized beard is indicated under the chin, the plaited straps are painted onto the jaws. On top of the wig, a winged scarab is painted. A fillet is tied around the wig, with a gilded sun disk on the forehead, from which golden lotus flower pendants hang down. The shoulder parts are decorated in symmetry: in the upper register, a falcon crowned with a sun disk and holding a feather, protecting between its wings an upright mummy; in the lower register, three uraei crowned with sun disks. The registers are separated by decorated bands. At the bottom of the chest piece runs a broad band with rosettes.
The lappets of the wig are also decorated, each in two registers. Left lappet, upper register: Anubis in a long kilt stands with outstretched arms beside an empty bier in the shape of a falcon-headed lion wearing the white crown, the scene is flanked by two facing mummiform figures; lower register: three mummiform figures, one with a human head, one with a falcon's head and one with a feather as a head. Right lappet, upper register: same scene as upper left, but with only one mummiform figure on the right and a lion's head on the bier; lower register: mirror image of the lower left.
The space on the chest between the lappets is occupied by rosettes and other decorative elements.
On the left side of the wig, a falcon-headed mummiform figure holding a feather is seated; on the right side, the figure has a human head. On the back of the wig, fragments of three standing mummiform figures are visible: two with human heads and the middle one with a falcon head.
All mummiform figures wear broad collars, some wear gowns with bead nets. The strands of hair on top of the wig are represented stylized as a bead net.
The execution gives the impression of negligence in some aspects.

Present location ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM [06/002] AMSTERDAM
Inventory number APM 7122
Dating PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
Archaeological Site UNKNOWN
Category MASK
Material PLASTER; STRAW; LINEN; GOLD
Technique PAINTED ON STUCCO; GILDED; STUCCO
Height 48 cm
Width 36.4 cm
Depth 25.1 cm



Bibliography•G.A.S. Snijder, Algemeene Gids Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, 1956 (tweede druk), 17 (nr. 104)
•W.M. van Haarlem (ed.), CAA Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, Fasc. 1, 1986, 84-86
•R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, W.M. van Haarlem, Gids voor de afdeling Egypte, Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, 1986, 42, 43/fig. 22 (nr. 3)
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Mummy mask of a man

Mummy mask of a man
The face is cut in wood on a panel. The details are moulded in stucco and the whole is gilded. The man represented has large ears, a moustache, a short beard and curly hair. The nose is broad, the eyes are deeply set, on the forehead are wrinkles. Four holes have been made in the sides to fasten the mask.
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Inventory number APM 7120
Dating ANTONINUS PIUS
Archaeological Site UNKNOWN
Category EXTENDED MASK
Material WOOD; PLASTER
Technique SCULPTURED; PAINTED ON STUCCO; GILDED
Height 32 cm
Width 21.4 cm
Depth 9.3 cm

Bibliography•G.A.S. Snijder (ed.), Algemeene gids Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, 1956 (tweede druk), 17 (nr. 106)
•G. Grimm, Die römischen Mumienmasken aus Ägypten, 1974, 15 n. 19, 81/pl. 40,4
•W.M. van Haarlem, R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Gids voor de afdeling Egypte, Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, 1986, 42
•W.M. van Haarlem, CAA Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, Fasc. IV, 1997, 124-126
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Limestone head of a bearded man.

Limestone head of a bearded man.

 From Hierakonpolis

1st-2nd Dynasty

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Barbering, Tomb of Userhat

Barbering, Tomb of Userhat


Artist: Nina de Garis Davies (1881–1965)


Period: New Kingdom

Dynasty: Dynasty 18

Reign: reign of Amenhotep II

Date: ca. 1427–1400 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes

Medium: Tempera on paper

Dimensions: facsimile: h. 45 cm (17 11/16 in); w. 73 cm (28 3/4 in) scale 1:1 framed: h. 48.6 cm (19 1/8 in); w. 76.2 cm (30 in)

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1930

Accession Number: 30.4.40

This facsimile painting copies part of a scene in the tomb of Userhat (TT 56) at Thebes. This vignette depicts men waiting their turn to have their hair cut by the barber who is at work in the lower left. The facsimile was painted at the tomb in 1925-1926 by Nina deGaris Davis who was a member of the Graphic Section of the Museum's Egyptian Expedition.


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Set speared Apep

Set speared Apep
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Thutmose I and His Mother Seniseneb

Thutmose I and His Mother Seniseneb

Artist: Nina de Garis Davies (1881–1965)

Period: New Kingdom

Dynasty: Dynasty 18

Reign: Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III

Date: A.D. 1925; original ca. 1479–1458 B.C.

Geography: Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahari, Temple of Hatshepsut

Medium: Tempera on paper

Dimensions: Facsimile: H. 81.5 cm (32 1/16 in.); W. 71 cm (27 15/16 in.) scale 1:1 Framed: H. 83.3 cm (32 13/16 in.); W. 73.1 cm (28 3/4 in.)

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1930

Accession Number: 30.4.137

 Thutmose I, third king of Dynasty 18, was not the son of Amenhotep I, his predecessor. He was, however, closely allied or related to Ahmose-Nefertari, the mother of Amenhotep I, and was responsible for her tomb and burial. At the Temple of Amun at Karnak, he enlarged the Middle Kingdom temple with two pylons, a hypostyle hall, two obelisks, and an enclosure wall. He was greatly revered by his daughter Hatshepsut, who based her legitimacy on the throne on his supposed appointment of her as king. Hatshepsut built a chapel in his honor in her own mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri.

This facsimile of a painted relief from the Chapel of Anubis in the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut was copied by the artist Nina deGaris Davies from the original. It was produced as part of the work of the Graphic Section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition. Richly painted, it shows the king wearing a pleated linen kilt with an elaborate sash and carrying his walking stick and ceremonial mace. He is accompanied by his mother Seniseneb, who wears the vulture headdress of Egyptian queens.

 

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Carpenter Making a Chair, Tomb of Rekhmire

Carpenter Making a Chair, Tomb of Rekhmire

Artist: Nina de Garis Davies (1881–1965)

Period: New Kingdom

Dynasty: Dynasty 18

Reign: reign of Thutmose III–Amenhotep II

Date: ca. 1479–1400 B.C.

Geography: Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Rekhmire (TT 100)

Medium: Tempera on paper

Dimensions: facsimile: h. 30 cm (11 13/16 in); w. 41 cm (16 1/8 in) scale 1:1 framed: h. 33 cm (13 in); w. 44.5 cm (17 1/2 in)

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1931

Accession Number: 31.6.29

 

 

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Queen Tiye as a Sphinx

Queen Tiye as a Sphinx, MMA 26.7.1342, Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926
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A paddle doll

A paddle doll typical of those found in most Middle Kingdom XI Dynasty (2080 - 1990 BC) tombs of Thebes. This example now resides in a private collection.

Amulet of the God Nehebkau

Gold, H. 1.9 cm; W. 1 cm; D. 0.8 cm. Egypt, 664–30 BCE. Gift of Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson. Art Institute of Chicago 1894.962

 

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Amulet of Nehebkau

Amulet of Nehebkau

Egyptian
Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21–24
1070–754 B.C.

 This amulet of highly polsihed green faience represents the snake god Nehebkau, a chthonic god who later became associated with the afterlife. He is shown as a rearing serpent with human arms. There is a suspension ring on the back of the head.

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Nehebkau

Nehebkau amulet


Period: Third Intermediate Period

Dynasty: Dynasty 21

Date: ca. 1070–945 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb MMA 60, Chamber, Burial of Nesenaset (1), MMA excavations, 1923–24

Medium: Faience

Dimensions: H. 2.9 cm (1 1/8 in.)

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1925

Accession Number: 25.3.173d

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Antefoqer and Senet

 

Antefoqer and Senet

Unlike the previous scenes, that have an essentially metaphorical significance, here it is about showing a very real activity, practiced on a large scale by many servants of the master. To save space, the decorator collected (in an ingenious manner) the two opportunities to use a net in the marshes, for fishing and for water-fowling. He confined the areas of hunting inside a blue rectangle (which is very well preserved), surrounded by a white rectangle, thus producing the semi-aquatic environment and its banks.

The Theban hypogeum bearing the number 60 (TT60) is one of the only funerary complexes known for a woman of the Middle Kingdom, and the oldest Theban tomb decorated of this period which has survived in a proper state.

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Tête de lion

Tête de lion, bronze. Importation orientale : néo-hittite (VIIIe siècle avant notre ère). / en: Lion head, bronze. Importation from middle-east, neo-hittite (8th century BCE)