Bowl: Lotus-Flower Shaped

Bowl: Lotus-Flower Shaped

• Medium: Pottery, paint
• Dates: ca. 3850-3500 B.C
• Period: Predynastic Period, Naqada I Period
• Dimensions: 5 9/16 x Diam. 6 3/4 in. (14.1 x 17.1 cm)  (show scale)
   
• Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
• Museum Location: This item is not on view
• Accession Number: 07.447.398
• Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund

The funeral procession on water

This fragment shows two scenes of funerary boats travelling to the right towards a booth under which are jars and a conical loaf. The boat in the upper register is propelled by four oarsmen; in the cabin at the front two persons are seen talking to each other. On top of the catafalque (?) five mourners are sitting, dressed in large white robes. In the lower register a person on the right takes hold of the prow of a boat rowed by four oarsmen. The boat is carrying several standing individuals: one man carrying papyrus bouquets, another holding a large stick, another with a fan, and two men carrying ritual vessels, a funerary figurine, and a shabti box. At the extreme right, beneath the upper booth, a servant is holding two jars on the ground.

Present location	KMKG - MRAH [07/003] BRUSSELS
Inventory number	E.2380
Dating	18TH DYNASTY
Archaeological Site	UNKNOWN
Category	WALL PAINTING
Material	UNSPECIFIED MINERAL; PLASTER
Technique	PAINTED
Height	74.5 cm
Width	38 cm

Bibliography

• L. Speleers, Recueil des inscriptions égyptiennes des Musées Royaux du Cinquantenaire à Bruxelles, Bruxelles 1923, 40 nº 154
• A. Mekhitarian, Fragments de peintures thébaines, Serapis 6 (1980) 88
• L. Manniche, Lost Tombs, Londres-New York 1988, 192-193
• J.-Ch. Balty, e.a., Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Brussel, Oudheid - Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles, Antiquité - The Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Antiquity, Bruxelles 1988, 26-28

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Donation Stela with a Curse

Donation Stela with a Curse

One of the most characteristic monuments of the Third Intermediate Period (circa 1070–653 B.C.) is the donation stela, a commemorative inscription that records the gift of land to a temple or a member of the temple staff. The texts give the conditions of the gift and the penalties to be incurred by anyone violating the terms. The punishments are usually couched in the form of curses, which, contrary to popular belief, were rare in ancient Egypt.
In the frame above the text on this stela a triad of gods associated with the city of Mendes stands facing the Libyan prince Hornakht, ruler of Mendes at the time. The prince wears the characteristic Libyan feather on his head and a short kilt with a transparent overgarment. Acting as mediator, he presents the hieroglyph for "fields" to the assembled deities. Behind him stands a flute-playing priest with a shaven head, a member of the temple staff to whom the fields are being given. Named Ankhpakhered, he was flutist of the god Horpakhered (Harpocrates), whose name means "Horus the Child" and who is shown standing between Hornakht and the god Osiris.


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• Medium: Limestone
• Place Found: Mendes, Egypt
• Dates: year 22 of Sheshenq III, ca. 804 B.C.E.
• Dynasty: XXII Dynasty
• Period: Third Intermediate Period
• Dimensions: 20 1/2 x 12 3/4 x 2 1/2 in., 41 lb