Taweret amulet with double head

Taweret amulet with double head, New Kingdom, late Dynasty 18–Dynasty 19, ca. 1390–1213 b.c.
Egyptian; from Egypt
Blue faience

H. 13/16 in. (2 cm), W. 9/16 in. (1.4 cm), D. 3/16 in. (0.4 cm)
Fletcher Fund, 1926 and Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921 (21.6.73)

Double-headed amulets of the domestic goddess Taweret are rare forms and date to Dynasty 18. Amarna is among the known findspots for these, although the exact provenance of this particular example is unknown

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Horemheb

Relief decorations in the burial hall from the Tomb of Horemheb. The unfinished master sketch and the completed relief depict underworld scenes based on the Book of the Gates. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: 18th dynasty c.1550-1295 BC. Place of Origin: Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ . Location: 90.

Ameneminet

TT277, the tomb of Ameneminet .
The small chapel of tomb TT277 is located in the Theban necropolis, more precisely on the hill of Qurnet-Murai. It belongs to Ameneminet (or Amenemonet), a priest in the service of the god Ptah-Sokar, in the Temple of Millions of Years of king Amenhotep III. Although it is incomplete, it is in a beautiful state of conservation. Its present decoration features some of the Ramesside craftsmanship, which, for example, don't respect the proportions anymore - as the artists of the XVIIIth Dynasty made it -, a characteristic of the end of the XIXth Dynasty, which becomes more pronounced under the XXth Dynasty. It is therefore presumably from this time which dates the burial.




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Ancient Egyptians of all classes wore wigs

Ancient Egyptians of all classes wore wigs. Wigs disguised deformities, guarded against lice, and made the hair look thicker, which was considered attractive. The Ancient Egyptian nobility also favoured very elaborate hairstyles, which were easier to construct and maintain with wigs. High-quality wigs were made from human hair and could be afforded only by the rich. This false fringe of curly hair was found in the tomb of an Ancient Egyptian king, Zer, at Abydos. It dates from about 4,700 B.C.
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Relief from a private tomb at Saqqara, reused in the Serapeum

Relief from a private tomb at Saqqara, reused in the Serapeum . A jubilation scene, probably from a funeral procession, it depicts a group of women dancing and drumming opposite rows of soldiers, priests, and dignitaries. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: New Kingdom,19th dynasty,c. 1290 B C. Material Size: Limestone l = 1.05 m. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Egyptian Museum, Cairo . Location: 82.

Administrative tablet with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars

Administrative tablet with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars, 3100–2900 b.c.; Jemdet Nasr period (Uruk III script)
Mesopotamia
Clay; H. 2 in. (5.3 cm)
Purchase, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gift, 1988 (1988.433.1)

In about 3300 B.C., writing was invented in Mesopotamia, perhaps in the city of Uruk, where the earliest inscribed clay tablets have been found in abundance. This was not an isolated development but occurred during a period of profound transformation in politics, the economy, and representational art. During the Uruk period of the fourth millennium B.C., the first Mesopotamian cities were settled, the first kings were crowned, and a range of goods—from ceramic vessels to textiles—were mass-produced in state workshops. Early writing was used primarily as a means of recording and storing economic information, but from the beginning a significant component of the written tradition consisted of lists of words and names that scribes needed to know in order to keep their accounts. Signs were drawn with a reed stylus on pillow-shaped tablets, most of which were only a few inches wide. The stylus left small marks in the clay which we call cuneiform, or wedge-shaped, writing.
This tablet most likely documents grain distributed by a large temple, although the absence of verbs in early texts makes them difficult to interpret with certainty. The seal impression depicts a male figure guiding two dogs on a leash and hunting or herding boars in a marsh environment.

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