Her-Heru, the first Priest-King

Her-Heru, the first Priest-King, and Queen Netchemet reciting a Hymn to the Rising Sun.
The Apes represent the Spirits of the Dawn.
From a papyrus (about 1050 B.C.) in the British Museum.

source: gutemberg.org

Isis

Isis
She has on her wig, drawn only in outline, the remains of a vulture. On her forehead is the head and at the rear is the tail of the same bird. It suggests her role of mother goddess Emoticono smile hieroglyph "Mut" of the vulture), and which can also seen as the emblem worn by the Great Royal Wives and their relation the the goddess Mut.
The tombs of Tanutamen and his mother Qalhata : at el-Kurru, Sudan
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http://www.osirisnet.net/…/tanouta…/e_tanoutamon_qalhata.htm

She has on her wig, drawn only in outline, the remains of a vulture. On her forehead is the head and at the rear is the tail of the same bird. It suggests her role of mother goddess Emoticono smile hieroglyph "Mut" of the vulture), and which can also seen as the emblem worn by the Great Royal Wives and their relation the the goddess Mut.
The tombs of Tanutamen and his mother Qalhata : at el-Kurru, Sudan
...

http://www.osirisnet.net/…/tanouta…/e_tanoutamon_qalhata.htm

EA796

Museum number

EA796

Description

Full: Front
Limestone stela, inscribed with 4 registers of hieroglyphs and decorated in sunk relief, mentioning Ramses 'in the house of Ra'.
© The Trustees of the British Museum

Part of a legal document written on papyrus for a woman named Naunakhte in about 1145 BC.

Part of a legal document written on papyrus for a woman named Naunakhte in about 1145 BC.
The Woman
Naunakhte was one of the inhabitants of the village we now know as Deir el-Medina, from the present-day Arabic name of the site. This was no ordinary community: a compact settlement set amidst the limestone cliffs of Western Thebes, it was home to the workers who created the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. They included draughtsmen, scribes, painters, and the workmen who were organised in gangs to hollow out the rock-cut tombs. Thanks to the wealth of documents discovered at the site, written on papyrus or ostraca (pieces of limestone or potsherds), we know more about this special village than any other settlement in Ancient Egypt. Naunakhte was married twice, first to a scribe named Kenhikhopshef, by whom she had no children, and secondly to a workman named Khaemnun, with whom she has eight children. She inherited property from her first husband, and also perhaps from her father. Although women in Ancient Egypt had virtually no earning-power and their life was essentially focused on marriage and raising children, they exercised independent control of any property that had come to them outside their marriage.
The Document
One of several legal documents connected with Naunakhte and her family, this is the most important, her will. It records a declaration which she made late in life before a court consisting of 14 villagers, in year 3 of Ramesses V. In this, she specified that her property should be divided between five of her children (three sons and two daughters), but that three others (a son and two daughters), who had dissatisfied her, should not receive anything: ‘But see,’ she says, ‘I am grown old, and see, they are not looking after me in my turn...They shall not participate in the division of my one-third, but in the two-thirds of their father they shall participate.’ Naunakhte’s property seems to have consisted mostly of furniture and utensils, plus a few metal vessels of greater value plus a few metal vessels of greater value. She made a special point of giving one of these, a bowl, to one of the three sons amongst the five ‘good’ children who would inherit her property. 


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Ancient Egyptian textile fragment

Ancient Egyptian textile fragment of a mummy bandage made from wool and linen. From Antinoe in Middle Egypt -
© Australian Museum

Coffin of Pedi-Osiris

Coffin of Pedi-Osiris
305 BC–AD 30
Carved and painted wood; gold
86 1/8 x 26 x 18 inches

 

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund
 Ancient Egyptians believed in life after death. This coffin was made for Pedi-Osiris, a priest of the god Osiris, Lord of the Underworld. Standing more than seven feet tall, the coffin once held the priest's mummified body, which had been elaborately prepared for the afterlife, wrapped in multiple layers of linen cloth.

Pedi-Osiris appears with a gold face, exotic black-lined eyes, and a fake beard—a symbol of high rank. He wears a wig painted the rich blue of lapis lazuli; numerous painted necklaces; and red clothing covered with a net of painted beads. The coffin also features likenesses of ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses, who were included to protect the deceased and to help him overcome obstacles in the dangerous journey to the next world.
 

mfa

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Wall relief of fight between Seth and Horus where Horus, helped by Isis, kill Seth (hippopotamus), temple of Edfu, Egypt

Wall relief of fight between Seth and Horus where Horus, helped by Isis, kill Seth (hippopotamus), temple of Edfu, Egypt