Imagenes de Egipto

viernes, 14 de octubre de 2016

Fish Pendant

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/09.180.1182/

Fish Pendant
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: late Dynasty 12–early Dynasty 13
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Date: ca. 1878–1749 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Memphite Region, Lisht North, cemetery west of Senwosret (758), Pit 847, MMA excavations, 1908–09
Medium: Turquoise, gold
Dimensions: L. 2.1 cm (13/16 in.); H. 1 cm (3/8 in.); Th. 0.4 cm (3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1909
Accession Number: 09.180.1182

Description
The loop for suspension at the mouth of the fish shows that it would have hung vertically as a pendant. Its overall shape with a sharp dorsal fin allows to determine that this is a Synodontis batensoda. More detailed pendants confirm this identification. This type of catfish often swims upside down very close to the surface and is hence also called the "upside-down catfish."

"A Rare Mechanical Figure from Ancient Egypt": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 50 (2015) Reeves, Nicholas (2015)

"A Rare Mechanical Figure from Ancient Egypt": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 50 (2015)

Reeves, Nicholas (2015)

Headdress

Period: Early Dynastic IIIa

Date: ca. 2600–2500 B.C.

Geography: Mesopotamia, Ur (modern Tell al-Muqayyar)

Culture: Sumerian

Medium: Gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian

Dimensions: L. 15 1/8 in. (38.5 cm)

Classification: Metalwork-Ornaments

Credit Line: Dodge Fund, 1933

Accession Number: 33.35.3

Description

Kings and nobles became increasingly powerful and independent of temple authority during the course of the Early Dynastic period (2900–2350 B.C.), although the success of a king's reign was considered to depend on support from the gods. A striking measure of royal wealth was the cemetery in the city of Ur, in which sixteen royal tombs were excavated in the 1920s and 1930s by Sir Leonard Woolley. These tombs consisted of a vaulted burial chamber for the king or queen, an adjoining pit in which as many as seventy-four attendants were buried, and a ramp leading into the grave from the ground.

This delicate chaplet of gold leaves separated by lapis lazuli and carnelian beads adorned the forehead of one of the female attendants in the so-called King's Grave. In addition, the entombed attendants wore necklaces of gold and lapis lazuli, gold hair ribbons, and silver hair rings. Since gold, silver, lapis, and carnelian are not found in Mesopotamia, the presence of these rich adornments in the royal tomb attests to the wealth of the Early Dynastic kings as well as to the existence of a complex system of trade that extended far beyond the Mesopotamian River valley.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/33.35.3/

jueves, 13 de octubre de 2016

Female Ancestral Bust

Ancestral busts were kept in the home, perhaps used in rituals that helped maintain the deceased in the afterlife or allowed the living and dead to communicate. Both of these busts were made about the same time and demonstrate how even a cheaper pottery example could be exquisitely made and decorated, though clearly a painted limestone bust would have been more expensive to commission.

This text refers to these objects: 61.49; 54.1

MEDIUM Pottery, paint

•Possible Place Collected: Thebes (Deir el Medina), Egypt

DATES ca. 1539-1190 B.C.E.

DYNASTY XVIII Dynasty-XIX Dynasty

PERIOD New Kingdom

DIMENSIONS 6 5/16 x 3 x 2 5/16 in. (16 x 7.6 x 5.8 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

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