vasse

Present location	RIJKSMUSEUM VAN OUDHEDEN [06/001] LEIDEN
Inventory number	AD 55
Dating	AMENHOTEP II/AMENOPHIS II/AAKHEPERURE
Archaeological Site	SHEIKH `ABD EL-QURNA
Category	VASE
Material	FAIENCE
Technique	FAYENCE
Height	19.5 cm
Diameter	12,2 cm

Bibliography

• Leemans, C., Aegyptische Monumenten van het Nederlandse Museum van Oudheden te Leiden II, Leiden 1851, 12, pl. LIX, 252a-b.
• Schneider, H. D. en M. J. Raven, De Egyptische Oudheid, Den Haag 1981, nr. 101.
• Schneider, H. D., Life and Death under the Pharaohs, Perth 1997, nr. 170

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Shabti of Nakht-Djehuty

Shabti of Nakht-Djehuty
The elaborately executed shabti wears a wig with two horizontal bands at the bottom of the lappets and one on the back of the wig. The arms are crossed right over left, the fists originally held hoes. On the back is a bag; the buttocks are placed a little too high. On the chest and the arms, a large collar consisting of concentric lines is painted. The feet are separated by a band. The facial features are painted in black. The text is painted in horizontal lines running around the body, the beginnings and endings separated on the back by a vertical cross-hatched band.

Present location ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM [06/002] AMSTERDAM
Inventory number APM 9450
Dating 18TH DYNASTY
Archaeological Site UNKNOWN
Category SHABTI
Material WOOD; PLASTER
Technique SCULPTURED; PAINTED ON STUCCO
Height 24.5 cm
Width 6.5 cm
Depth 3.6 cm


Translation
(1) The illuminated one, the Osiris Nakht-Djehuty, justified; he says:
(2) o shabti, if one counts,
(3) if one reckons to do all the work
(4) which is wont to be done in the necropolis, to make arable
(5) a field, to irrigate the riparian lands

Bibliography•H.D. Schneider, Shabtis I, 1977, 159ff.
•W.M. van Haarlem, Sjawabti's uit de collectie Dobber, MVAPM 15 (juli 1978), 3-4: 4/fig. [1] (nr. 3)
•diversen (M. Appels), Gezicht van de Oudheid (tentoonstellingscatalogus APM), 1982, 19 (nr. 7a)
•W.M. van Haarlem, CAA Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, Fasc. II, vol. 1, 1990, 15-18


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Upper part of a coffin lid

The fragment is the upper part of a lid of an anthropoid coffin, broken off or cut off just below the hands.
The face is relatively small and may be female. The heavy, dotted lappet wig is crowned with four fillets: a checkered band with large rectangles, two checkered bands with small rectangles and one with stylized flower petals. The face is protected on the left by a winged uraeus. Probably there was another uraeus on the right. The collar is relatively small. The lappets of the wig end in four horizontal bands: one with stripes, a multicoloured checkered band, a broad one with udjat-eyes, and one with multicoloured dots. The wig is framed by a dotted band and a 'plaited' pattern at the back. The closed, but empty hands are modelled on the surface; they are half covered by broad bracelets in the same pattern as the collar.

Present location	ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM [06/002] AMSTERDAM
Inventory number	APM 9376
Dating	22ND DYNASTY
Archaeological Site	UNKNOWN
Category	COFFIN/SARCOPHAGUS LID
Material	WOOD; PLASTER
Technique	PAINTED ON STUCCO
Height	66.6 cm
Width	43.9 cm
Depth	17.9 cm

Bibliography

• diversen (M. Appels), Gezicht van de Oudheid (tentoonstellingscatalogus APM), 1982, 20 (nr. 11)
• W.M. van Haarlem, CAA Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, Fasc. IV, 1997, 25-27

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Marble sarcophagus with garlands and the myth of Theseus and Ariadne

Marble sarcophagus with garlands and the myth of Theseus and Ariadne

Period: Hadrianic or early Antonine

Date: ca. A.D. 130–150

Culture: Roman

Medium: Marble, Luni and Pentelic

Dimensions: Overall: 31 x 85 3/4 x 28in. (78.7 x 217.8 x 2.3 cm)

Classification: Stone Sculpture

Credit Line: Purchase by subscription, 1890

Accession Number: 90.12a, b

 

 On the lid, shown in delicate low relief, winged erotes drive chariots drawn by animals associated with the four seasons: bears with spring, lions with summer, bulls with fall, and boars with winter. On the front, four erotes bear seasonal garlands composed of flowers, wheat, grapes, pomegranates, and laurel. Between the swags are three episodes from the myth of the Greek hero Theseus. With the help of the Cretan princess Ariadne, Theseus slew the Minotaur, a part-bull and part-human monster who was caged in a labyrinth, where he consumed Athenian boys and girls sent as annual tribute. Depicted from left to right are: Ariadne giving a thread to Theseus at the entrance to the labyrinth, Theseus slaying the Minotaur, and the sleeping Ariadne abandoned on the island of Naxos, where she will be awakened by the god Dionysos to become his immortal bride.

 

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Canopic jar lid

Canopic jar lid
Wooden sculptured canopic jar lid with a human face from a Middle Kingdom burial at el-Riqqeh, near the 12th Dynasty Residence Itjtawy. Canopic jar lids of the Middle and early New Kingdoms have human head form, but later the human head was reserved for just one of the four sons of Horus, Amset.

Present location NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN
Inventory number 1913:332
Dating 12TH DYNASTY
Archaeological Site EL-RIQQEH
Category CANOPIC JAR LID
Material WOOD
Technique SCULPTURED
Height 12 cm
Width 12.5 cm
Depth 11 cm

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seal

seal impression found at Abydos

Petrie Museum

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