Female Figurines from Deir el-Medina: A Review of Evidence for their Iconography and Function

Female Figurines from Deir el-Medina: A Review

of Evidence for their Iconography and Function

Joanne Backhouse

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Cabeza masculina

Cabeza masculina
granito
Reino Nuevo
1539-1076 a C
Templo de Heryshet
Heracleópolis Magna
Ehnasiya el Medina

Museo arqueológico nacional
Madrid

Templo prolemaico Deir el Medina

Templo ptolemaico de Deir el Medina.

Está situado en la colina al norte del poblado de los trabajadores.

Las primeras construcciones se llevaron a cabo en los mandatos de Tutmosis I y de Ramses II.

Pero el templo de Hathor, tal y como lo vemos ahora fue construido por orden de Ptolomeo IV Filopator y después de él y en parte de la construcción por Ptolomeo XIII

Estatua de un sirviente que muele cereal.

Estatua de un sirviente que muele cereal.

cáliza

Reino Antiguo, V dinastía

Museo egipcio de Barcelona

Limestone false door in situ in E face of G 7391

Subjects: Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 7391
Description: Limestone false door in situ in E face of G 7391 (mastaba of Iteti): Museo Egizio, Turin, TUR_S.1843.

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Limestone false door

Description: Limestone false door from E face of G 7391, Iteti: Museo Egizio, Turin, TUR_S.1843 // Falsa porta principale della mastaba di Iteti. Sui montanti esterni sono raffigurati i sacerdoti del culto funerario che recano le offerte al defunto. Sui montanti interni si trovano alcuni familiari

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Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 7391

Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 7391

Appears (without family relationship, if any, indicated) three times in chapel relief in tomb of Iteti (owner of G 7391), chapel entrance door jamb (facade face, north outer jamb, middle register, presenting vessel), north wall (second register, kneeling, top row, second figure from left), and false door (Turin S.1843) of Iteti, north inner jamb (bottom register); relief in situ and false door found in situ in east face of G 7391. 

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Missione Egitto 1903-1920

Missione Egitto 1903-1920. L'avventura archeologica M.A.I. raccontata

Ernesto Schiaparelli

L'accampamento della M.A.I. a Gebelein. Vestito di Bianco, Virginio Rosa. Dalla Fototeca del Museo Nazionale del Cinema.

Fotografía facilitada por el Museo Egipcio de Turín, que hace revivir desde hoy la epopeya de Ernesto Schiaparelli (2ºd)./

 Picnic di un gruppo di turisti europei all’interno della sala ipostila del tempio di Karnak, Luxor (1900 circa).
La mostra «Missione Egitto 1903-1920» è aperta al Museo Egizio di Torino

Reclining lion

Reclining lion


The lion played an important role in the imagination of the ancient Egyptians. Fear and awe for the animal demon influenced man's encounters with the animal. Reminders of this fear are amulets in the shape of lions. This small pottery lion is depicted reclining with its jaws slightly open. Lion amulets were used in the Late Period, for example, as protection against snake bites. Statuettes with bases also served as seals or as the decoration on finger rings.

KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM

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inventoty number 6527

Toad on a bronze staff

Toad on a bronze staff


The significance of the toad in Ancient Egypt waned before that of the frog. Because it is poisonous, rendering it inedible to other animals, it seems particularly apt as a magical charm. Toad and frog amulets are also used as symbols of rebirth. This toad is squatting on a bronze staff, the use of which is not clear.

KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM

Inventory number  647

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Model

Model

Inventory number 1693

 UPPER EGYPT:  GOVERNORATE OF ASIUT:  ASIUT ?

 WOOD:  SYCAMORE

PELIZAEUS-MUSEUM [04/030]

MIDDLE KINGDOM:  12TH DYNASTY

Roeder, G., Die Denkmäler des Pelizaeus-Museums zu Hildesheim, Hildesheim 1921, S. 75.
Kayser, H., Die ägyptischen Altertümer im Roemer-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Hildesheim 1973, S. 55.
Martin-Pardey, E., Grabbeigaben, Nachträge und Ergänzungen (Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum: Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Lieferung 6), Mainz 1991, S. 80-82.

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Stele of Shepsipumin for his mother

Rectangular stele with an uneven surface, showing the deceased sitting on a seat with a low back and animal-paw legs. Under the seat are her personal objects, a coffer on which an unguent bottle and a mirror are placed. The woman wears an ankle-long tunic. She is inhaling the scent of a lotus-flower and is reaching towards some bread slices laid on an offering table beside which are the head of an ox and a basin with a jug for ablutions.
On the upper right there is a hieroglyphic inscription.

Present location	MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [05/027] FLORENCE
Inventory number	7582
Dating	OLD KINGDOM
Archaeological Site	AKHMIM
Category	STELA
Material	LIMESTONE
Technique	RELIEF
Height	37 cm
Width	50.5 cm

Translation

An offering that the king gives to Osiris [in all his seats:] a funerary [offering:] bread and beer for [...]uttkheses[...]. Thousands of bread loaves, thousands of beer jugs, thousands of alabaster vases, thousands of cloths; it is her eldest son Shepsipumin who has made for her (this stele).

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Mold for shabtis

A single mold for the production of mummiform shabtis with a tripartite wig, a beard, arms folded in front of the chest and hands holding agricultural implements.

Present location	MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [05/027] FLORENCE
Inventory number	7122
Dating	NEW KINGDOM
Archaeological Site	GOVERNORATE OF LUXOR
Category	SHABTI MOULD
Material	POTTERY
Technique	FORMED BY HAND
Width	5.5 cm

Bibliography

• AA.VV., L'argilla e il tornio. La produzione fittile dell'Egitto antico in Toscana, Pisa, 1992, pg. 19, n. 10

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Shabti of the lady Nay

Shabti of the lady Nay

Finely modelled and incised shabti of a woman depicted with mummiform body, holding a pick and a hoe for work, and wearing an intricately braided heavy wig. The lines of hieroglyphs over the lower body give the shabti formula, and identify the owner as a lady named Nay.

Present location NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN

Inventory number 1954:161

Dating 19TH DYNASTY

Archaeological Site UNKNOWN

Category SHABTI

Material LIMESTONE ?

Technique PRESSED IN A FORM/MODEL

Height 26 cm

Width 8 cm

Depth 4 cm

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Statuette of a concubine

Statuette of a concubine

Small figure representing a standing woman, naked, with a tripartite coiffure, painted necklaces coiled several times around her neck, bracelets, and red ribbons crossing in front of her body and behind her back. Around her hips, under the navel, is painted a belt consisting of a red ribbon decorated with white shells. There are traces of tattoos on her legs. The arms, fashioned separately, are applied to the bust by means of pegs.

Present location MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [05/027] FLORENCE

Inventory number 6338

Dating MIDDLE KINGDOM

Archaeological Site SHEIKH `ABD EL-QURNA

Category FIGURINE/STATUETTE

Material WOOD

Technique SCULPTURED

Height 22.8 cm

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Bibliography•E. Schiaparelli, Museo Archeologico di Firenze-Antichità Egizie, Roma, 1887, pgg. 472-473, n.1743 .

Head of a funerary statue

The head of a statue of a man wearing a compound double-wig with a wide and smooth band around the upper half of the forehead and curls rendered by deep incisions. The statue originally stood with its back against a support or against the wall of a tomb.

Present location	MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [05/027] FLORENCE
Inventory number	7669
Dating	NEW KINGDOM (not before); 20TH DYNASTY; 20TH DYNASTY (not after)
Archaeological Site	GOVERNORATE OF LUXOR
Category	STATUE
Material	SAND; FIBER (FROM PLANTS AND ANIMALS); PLASTER
Technique	FORMED BY HAND
Height	30 cm

Bibliography

• AA.VV., L'argilla e il tornio. La produzione fittile dell'Egitto antico in Toscana, Pisa, 1992, pg. 41-42, n. 63..

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Statuette of an el-`Amarna princess, part

This upper part of a statue of a princess from el-`Amarna is a workshop piece, a model to be used by the sculptor when sculpting the head and upper body of a young princess. Her left side is connected to the angular corner of a block of stone up to the shoulders, which on the back turns into the back pillar. The elongated back of the skull rests on this. The model probably comes from one of the workshops of el-`Amarna. The grid for the proportions was painted on the corner of the block of stone. The middle of the head is marked by a black line, as are the outlines of the eyes and the brows. The sloping ears have only been roughly worked out of the stone.

Present location	KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM [09/001] VIENNA
Inventory number	9961
Dating	AMENHOTEP IV/AMENOPHIS IV/NEFERKHEPERURE/AKHENATEN
Archaeological Site	UNKNOWN
Category	FIGURINE/STATUETTE
Material	QUARTZITE
Technique	CARVED; SCULPTURED
Height	19 cm
Width	9 cm
Depth	12 cm

Bibliography

• Katalog "Ägyptische Kunst aus der Zeit des Köngis Echnaton", 14.5.-27.6.1965, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 20, Nr. 21, Abb. 12, Privatbesitz München.
• Katalog "Entdeckungen. Ägypt. Kunst in Süddeutschland", 30.8.-6.10.1985 München, 64ff., Nr. 48 Privatbesitz.
• Katalog "Land der Bibel" Wien (1997) 46 f., Kat.Nr. 58.
• Katalog "Von Babylon bis Jerusalem. Die Welt der altorientalischen Königsstädte", Mannheim (1999) 46f., Kat.Nr. 58.

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