Some ushabtis belonged to women of the royal family during the 21st dynasty.

Some ushabtis belonged to women of the royal family during the 21st dynasty. Faience, unknown provenience, Third Intermediate Period, now in the Petrie Museum. Left: an uncertain Isetemkheb, could be the wife of the High Priest of Amun Menkheperre (Isetemkheb C) as well as his daughter (Isetemkheb D); Center: Henuttawy D, God's Wife of Amun, daughter of the High Priest of Amun Pinedjem II; Right: Neskhons, wife of the High Priest of Amun Pinedjem II.

Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) - A History of Egypt, part III 1905, p. 213, fig. 86

SHABTI BOX

Present location	RIJKSMUSEUM VAN OUDHEDEN [06/001] LEIDEN
Inventory number	AH 186
Dating	21ST DYNASTY (not before); 22ND DYNASTY (not after)
Archaeological Site	UNKNOWN
Category	SHABTI BOX
Material	WOOD
Technique	SCULPTURED; PAINTED ON STUCCO

Bibliography

• Schneider, H. D., Shabtis: an introduction to the history of ancient Egyptian funerary statuettes with a catalogue of the collection of shabtis in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, Leiden 1977, deel I: 99, 335 en III: pl. 5.
• Raven, M. J., De Dodencultus van het Oude Egypte, Amsterdam 1992, 48-50, nr. 17.
• Aston, D. A., The shabti box: a typological study, in: Oudheidkundige Mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden 74, Leiden 1994, 29, 45 en pl. 5.1.

globalegyptianmuseum

Royal and divine triad

Royal and divine triad

Our first image of Osiris appears in the middle of the massive statue carved into a thick back pillar, depicted in his most common representation, with feet joined, his body wrapped in a shroud, and two scepters-the crook and the flail-in his hands. He is wearing a mitered headdress flanked with two ostrich plumes, and has a long beard, which curls up at the bottom.
When Osiris died, he was the first to receive the mummification rites: his body, saved in this form, became the prototype for Egyptian mummies. Isis and Anubis resurrected Osiris by inventing the technique; the Egyptians then reproduced what they believed to be an essential practice. A person's soul, the ba, represented here as a human-headed bird, was able to leave the tomb during the day to fly among the living, as long as it could return to the body in the tomb. Hence the Egyptian title of the Book of the Dead: the "Book of Coming Forth by Day."
According to myth, Osiris was an ancient king of Egypt, a good man and wise ruler. After his assassination, he became the god of the dead, and his son, Horus, succeeded him on earth. Since then, every king of Egypt becomes an embodiment of Horus in turn.
Osiris is surrounded by his successors: to his right, the king (anonymous); and to his left, Horus, a falcon-headed man, wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. The royal insignia of the uraeus, a cobra with its hood extended, adorns the brows of all three figures

 © 2006 Musée du Louvre / Christian Décamps

http://www.louvre.fr/en/routes/osiris

Medinet Habu

Qasr el Aguz

The small Ptolemaic temple-chapel of Qasr (or Kasr) el Aguz (lit. the castle of the old lady), even named the chapel of Thoth-Ibis, is located about 200m. to the south-west of the temple of Medinet Habu, between Medinet Habu and the remains of the sacred lake which belonged to the temple of Amenhotep III at Malkatta

osirisnet.net

Toy or Musical Instrument

The musical instrument or children's toy consists of a rectangular carved piece of wood with a squared handle divided into two parts hollowed on each of their four sides.

On the extremity of the item, two pieces bearing two incised lines are tied together with a modern thread. The handle is decorated with small engraved circles

Present location	BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA ANTIQUETIES MUSEUM [01/027] ALEXANDRIA BAAM
Inventory number	885
Dating	BYZANTINE PERIOD
Archaeological Site	UNKNOWN
Category	MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
Material	WOOD
Technique	TURNED
Width	2.5 cm

globalegyptianmuseum

statue

Present location	RIJKSMUSEUM VAN OUDHEDEN [06/001] LEIDEN
Inventory number	AH 210
Dating	RAMESSES II/USERMAATRE-SETEPENRE
Archaeological Site	DEIR EL-MEDINAH
Category	STATUE
Material	WOOD; LIMESTONE
Technique	SCULPTURED; SCULPTURED; CARVED
Height	45.5 cm
Width	6.2 cm
Depth	14 cm

Bibliography

• Boeser, P. A. A., Beschrijving van de Egyptische Verzameling XII, Den Haag 1925, 22, pl. V.
• Schneider, H. D., Egyptisch Kunsthandwerk, Amsterdam 1995, 72-74, nr. 29.
• Schneider, H. D., Life and Death under the Pharaohs, Perth 1997, nr. 94.
• Janssen, J. J., Khaemtore, a well-to-do workman, in: Oudheidkundige Mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden 58, Leiden 1977, 223 en pl. 50.1.
• Raven, M. J., Objects from Deir el-Medina in the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, in: R.J. Demarée & A. Egberts (eds.), Deir el-Medina in the Third Millennium AD, A tribute to J. J. Janssen, Leiden 2000, 293-295.

globalegyptianmuseum