Head of a block statue

 

Head of a block statue

The head has broken off just below the chin. On either side of the jaws, remains of the stone are present indicating that the head belonged to a block statue. The nose is straight, the lines of the eyes and the eyebrows are executed in relief. The head is polished smooth.

granite

26TH DYNASTY

Inventory number APM 8849

ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM.

onbekend (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam), Antieke voorwerpen uit Egypte en Voor-Azië (tentoonstellingscatalogus), 1931, (nr. 283)

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W.M. van Haarlem, R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Gids voor de afdeling Egypte, Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, 1986, 81/afb. 61

cat and kitten

 

This is a hollow bronze container with no trace of a catch. On it is a cat, lying on her left side, with her head turned right. She is suckling four kittens between her legs.

BRONZE

LATE PERIOD

Inventory number 661

KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM

Komorzynski, E., "Tierbilder aus dem Alten Ägypten", in: Frohes Schaffen XXVII, Wien (1953) 250.

Roeder, G., Ägyptische Bronzefiguren, Berlin (1956) # 463e.

Komorzynski, E., Das Erbe des alten Ägypten, Wien (1965) Abb. 65.

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Sculptor's model: Female head in relief

Sculptor's model: Female head in relief

limestone

Representation in relief of a woman's head, left profile.

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD

Inventory number 71

KUNSTHISTORISCHES Museum.

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=5400

 

Naked female figure

Naked female figure

So-called Baubo figures are well known from all parts of the ancient world. They were popular from the 4th century B.C. onwards and have been found in sanctuaries as well as in cemeteries and settlements. They usually date from the Roman Period in Egyptian history. The figures are interpreted as apotropaic fertility symbols. This statuette depicts a nude, squatting woman with her legs spread apart. Her hands are on her genitals.

pottery

GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD

Inventory number 5941

KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM

Satzinger, H., Frühe Erwerbungen in der ägyptischen Sammlung, in: Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen 87 (1991), 42.

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=5168

 

A Re-Analysis of Part of Prince Amenemhat Q's Eternal Menu

A Re-Analysis of Part of Prince Amenemhat Q's Eternal Menu

Salima Ikram

https://www.researchgate.net/.../267024636_A_Re-Analysis...

 

Statuette of a woman

Statuette of a woman

POTTERY

GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD

Terracotta figure from the Faiyum in Hellenistic style, showing a woman wearing a long robe and holding a torch. The white plaster traces over the figure are from the ground for applying pigments.

Inventory number L661:2

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND

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Bracelets from the Tomb of King Djer

Four Bracelets from the Tomb of King Djer

Abydos.

These four bracelets were discovered at Abydos in the tomb of King Djer of the First Dynasty. They were fastened onto a linen-wrapped forearm of a woman, who might have been King Djer's queen or a member of the royal family.

The bracelets were held in place by linen bandages, which made it possible to recover them in their original order of stringing.

Three of the bracelets are composed of various types of beads: gold, turquoise, lapis lazuli, and amethyst.

The fourth one consists of 27 plaques representing the palace facade topped by the falcon god Horus.

The bracelets are of exquisite workmanship, demonstrating the skill of the ancient artists in this early period of Egyptian

From Abydos.

1ST DYNASTY: DJER

Egyptian Museum.

Cairo.

history.Inventory number JE 35054

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=15319

 

Statuette of a woman sitting on a seat

Statuette of a woman sitting on a seat

LIMESTONE

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD

This statuette, which dates to the Ptolemaic Period (compare with Brussels E.3073), represents a woman sitting on a seat with a short back, which has the form of the hieroglyphic sign serving to reproduce the word "set" (seat) and the name of the <A HREF="God">goddess</A> Isis. The woman, wearing a wig in three parts, is clothed in a round-necked long dress. On the four sides of the seat one notices grids, which seems to indicate that the statuette was used as a model by sculptors.

Inventory number E.8723

KMKG - MRAH

Eeuwige steen - Pierre éternelle (Exposition), Bruxelles 1990, 209 n° 105

W. Seipel, Gott. Mensch. Pharao. Viertausend Jahre Menschenbild in der Skulptur des Alten Ägypten (Exposition), Vienne 1992, 470-471 n° 194

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=1477

 

Faience figurine

 Faience figurine

 A bright blue glazed figure of a dancing, dwarfish, lion demon. It has a lionskin headdress, the legs, arms and tail are free-standing, with details picked out in black. The figure probably represents a forerunner of the household god Bes, popular from the early New Kingdom onwards.

 

Fayence 

Esna

 Inventory number  03/061/3449

LIVERPOOL MUSEUM

From the 1905 - 1906 excavations of Professor J. Garstang at Esna. The object comes from tomb number 275. This object was donated to the Museum in 1977 by Colonel J.R. Danson a descendent of Sir Francis Chatillon Danson who was a committee member of the Liverpool Institute of Archaeology, and donated funds to Garstang's excavations. This gift included more material from el-'Amarna and Garstang's excavations at Abydos.

Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley, "Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in the Liverpool Museum", 1995, 77; pl. 121.

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Fertility figurine in unbaked clay

Fertility figurine in unbaked clay

Clay figure, head missing, of a naked woman, with no feet. The pubic triangle is marked with single incised line, and waistline, navel and breasts marked by series of punctures. Such figures are found in burials of men and women, and appear to have been intended to evoke eternal fertility and rebirth.

ABYDOS

Inventory number 1913:261

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND.

Given to the museum by the Egypt Exploration Fund in 1913.

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=2572

 

Fertility figurine

 

Fertility figurine

This terracotta piece was part of a category of figurines representing very primitive images of women. They are specifically characterised by the gesture of the hands which seem to support the breasts and by the enormous dotted pubis. It's probably an erotic ex-voto placed in temples or in tombs. This "fertility figurine" dates from the end of the 18th Dynasty or from the beginning of the Ramesside Period.

POTTERY

2ND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD > NEW kingdom

Inventory number E.2527

KMKG - MRAH

E. Warmenbol (Éd.), Ombres d'Égypte, le peuple de Pharaon (Exposition), Treignes 1999, 76 nº 42

Fr. Labrique, La magie, L'archéologue 44 (1999) 17

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bull

 Large weight in the shape of a bull




The weight is shaped as a crouching zebu with its legs tucked underneath it and short horns. The body has been delicately modelled, and other notable aspects are the details of the face and the rendering of the neck. On the inside, close to the break, is a rectangular field indicating the weight of 20 deben in a bold golden inlay. This means that this bull is the largest metal weight in animal form known to us.




Present location PELIZAEUS-MUSEUM [04/030] HILDESHEIM

Inventory number 6249

Dating 18TH DYNASTY

Archaeological Site UNKNOWN

Category WEIGHT

Material LEAD; BRONZE; GOLD

Technique HOLLOW CAST; INLAID

Height 7.2 cm

Width 6 cm










Translation

"[1] 20"




Bibliography•Eggebrecht, A. (Hrsg.), Gewichte in Tiergestalt aus dem alten Ägypten, Hildesheim - Mainz 1992, S. 7-8, Abb. S. 5, S. 6.

•Eggebrecht, A. (Hrsg.), Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim : Die ägyptische Sammlung, Hildesheim - Mainz 1993, Abb. 49.

•Seidel, M., Ein neues Gewicht in Rindergestalt, in: Kessler, D. & Schulz, R. (Hrsg.), Gedenkschrift für Winfried Barta (Münchener Ägyptologische Untersuchungen 4), Frankfurt 1995, S. 353-354, Tf. 1.

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Naos with Statue of a Woman

Naos with Statue of a Woman

This slender, elegant figure, carved from sycamore wood, represents the Lady Ibentina, wife of Satnem. A string of tiny faience beads is tied around her left arm. She is wearing a three-part wig with braids and her wrists are adorned with bracelets. She has a small face with wide, almond eyes and a nicely shaped mouth. The statue is fitted into a parallelepiped wooden base.

The paintings around this base represent a formula for offerings dedicated to the god of the dead, Osiris. He is referred to as Lord of Busiris and Abydos. The statue is enclosed in a wooden naos with a lid.

DEIR EL-MEDINAH

18TH DYNASTY

FUNERARY TEXT: FORMULA Htp-di-nsw.t

Inventory number JE 63646 A,B

EGYPTIAN MUSEUM

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=15901

 

erotic figurine

Man and woman

erotic figurine

pottery

This figurine of terracotta, which was acquired through an exchange with the Museum of Cairo in 1905-1906, depicts a man and a woman who carry out the sexual act. It is particularly distinguished by the large head of the man and the small size of the woman. The piece comes from the rich category of erotic figurines of faience and terracotta made from the Graeco-Roman Period onwards.

GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD

Inventory number E.4016

KMKG - MRAH

Keizers aan de Nijl (Exposition Tongres), Louvain 1999, 245 nº 166

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=609

 

Standing Woman

 

Standing Woman
Period:Early Dynastic PeriodDate:ca. 3100–2649 B.C.
Geography:From Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Abydos, Osiris Temple, Chamber M69,
Egypt Exploration Fund excavations, 1903Medium:Ivory
Dimensions:H. 4.6 x W. 1.9 x D. 1.6 cm (1 13/16 x 3/4 x 5/8 in.)Credit Line:Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1904Accession Number:04.18.50
Met Museum
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sistrum

SISTRUM

BRONZE

Inventory number 04/030/10761 /1212

PELIZAEUS-MUSEUM

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD

Roeder, G., Die Denkmäler des Pelizaeus-Museums zu Hildesheim, Hildesheim 1921, S. 127.

Roeder, G., Ägyptische Bronzewerke, Glückstadt; Hamburg; New York 1937, Paragraph 290-291, Tf. 38 b.

Roeder, G., Ägyptische Bronzefiguren (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Mitteilungen aus der Ägyptischen Sammlung 6), Berlin 1956, Paragraph 274 b. 437 c. 447 e. 527 a. 631 c.

Monreal Agustí, L. (Hrsg.), Egipto milenario : Vida cotidiana en la época de los faraones, Barcelona 1998, Kat.-Nr. 168.

Seipel, W., u.a., Ägypten : Im Reich der Pharaonen; Auf der Suche nach Schönheit und Vollkommenheit, Leoben 2001, Kat.-Nr. 21.

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=10761

 

pebble

 

An inscribed pebble, possibly from a foundation deposit at the temple of Montuhotep II at Deir el-Bahari.

Inventory number 03/061/4359

LIVERPOOL MUSEUM

WEST BANK: DEIR EL-BAHARI

NEW KINGDOM: 18TH DYNASTY: HATSHEPSUT/MAATKARE

nfr nTr MAat-KA-Ra jr.n=f mnw=f n jtf Nb-Htp-Ra mAa-hrw

The good god, Maatkare, he has made his monuments for his father, Nebhepetre, true of voice.

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CLOTH/SHROUD

 

CLOTH/SHROUD

A large fragment of mummy cloth in natural linen. It is worn, frayed and stained but in very good condition. It is plain weave, warp faced with one selvedge.

Ends per cm (warp threads): 36.

Picks per cm (weft threads): 9.

THEBES: WEST BANK

18TH DYNASTY

Inventory number 1973.3.167

LIVERPOOL MUSEUM

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=3337

Dice

 

Dice

Single perfectly preserved example of classical Roman dice, of wood, found in the Hellenistic and Roman town of Euhemeria in the north-western Faiyum.

wood

QASR EL-BANAT

ROMAN PERIOD

From the division of finds excavated by the Egypt Exploration Fund. Given to the museum in 1901.

Inventory number 30/002/1988

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND

Margaret Murray, National Museum of Science and Art, General Guide III. Egyptian Antiquities, Dublin 1910, p. 40.

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Double-headed water bird amulet

 

PALETTE

Double-headed water bird amulet

This greywacke double-headed water bird amulet has a rectangular protrusion in the middle of its back that is pierced and notched at the top. It was probably worn as a pendant. One of the eyes still has the remains of the inlay (quartz?). The precise meaning of this object is unknown.

GREYWACKE

PERIOD: NAQADA

Inventory number E.0421

KMKG - MRAH [07/003]

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=95

Sekhmet

Sekhmet is a dangerous woman. Her name means the powerful woman. She is the goddess of disease and her breath is the hot desert wind. She once tried to kill everyone in Egypt. Granite. From Egypt, 18th dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, 1390-1352 BCE. The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (loaned by the British Museum).

Mummified man's head

Mummified man's head. There are traces of gold on his face. Find spot unknown. Greek-Roman Period, 332 BCE to 395 CE. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, UK. Accession ID 1898.186.a

(photo: public domain)

 

Cleopatra VII

 

Cleopatra VII

This statue is one of only seven statues of Cleopatra to survive from the ancient world. It shows archaizing in the body form and is meant to remind the viewer of the many generations that Cleopatra's family ruled Egypt. This is a political statement in the form of art.

basalt

https://egyptianmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/7B3391D5-48AE-40F7-AEAA-137842718769

Shabti box of Nesnebtauy

 

Shabti box of Nesnebtauy

Rectangular shabti box, preserving two of its originally three vaulted lids, separated from each other by a wooden vertical panel. The exterior is painted in white, with three vertical inscriptions mentioning its owner, Nesnebtauy, chantress of Amun's temple, who lived in Thebes during the XXIst dynasty.

WOOD: SYCAMORE

THEBES: WEST BANK: DEIR EL-BAHARI

Inventory number 21/007/7722

MUSEO ARQUEOLÓGICO NACIONAL

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Donada por el Gobierno Egipcio, formando parte del lote que le correspondió a España, tras su hallazgo en la 2ª Cachette (Deir el-Bahari), en 1893.

Departamento de Antigüedades Egipcias y Próximo Oriente; PEREZ - DIE, Mª C; PONS MELLADO, E; RUBIO VISIERS, Mª J.

canopic jar lid

Canopic jar lid with the head of Amset. The wig is painted in red, the face in yellow and the eyes in black. 3RD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD Inventory number 15747 MUSEO ARQUEOLÓGICO NACIONAL source: globalegyptianmuseum. org Corresponde a la colección de D. Eduardo Toda y Güell, cónsul de España en El Cairo, comprada por el M.A.N. el 15 de Enero de 1887. Departamento de Antigüedades Egipcias y de Próximo Oriente; PEREZ-DIE, MªC; PONS MELLADO, E.

Shabti for Semity

Shabti for Semity

Hardwood mummiform figure with large head and wide face with large ears. The crossed arms are only slightly free of the body. The fists are visible but hold no tools. Eyes and brows were painted black. On the front are four carved lines of hieroglyphs. The layout suggests that the shabti was kept in its own coffin. The fine modelling of the figure and the shape of the hieroglyphs are reminiscent of the tradition of the Middle Kingdom.

17TH /18thDYNASTY

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KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM

Inventory number 898

Reiser-Haslauer, E., Uschebti, Teil I. Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum (CAA) Wien 5 (1990) 42-45.

 

necklace

Necklace

MINERAL: CARNELIAN

MIDDLE KINGDOM

MUSÉE ROYAL DE MARIEMONT [07/009]

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B. VAN DE WALLE, Antiquités égyptiennes, Bruxelles, 1952 (Les antiquités égyptiennes, grecques, étrusques, romaines et gallo-romaines du Musée de Mariemont), n° E. 161, p. 60; Cl. DERRIKS et L. DELVAUX (éds.), Antiquités égyptiennes au Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, 2009, p. 271.

 

Wooden bracelet

 

Wooden bracelet

wood

Inventory number: E.2307

MIDDLE KINGDOM ?

This wooden object, which was acquired by an exchange with the Museum of Cairo, but whose provenance is not known, is a beautiful example of a bracelet which was worn on the wrist, on the arms or on the ankle. It is particularly distinguished by its flared form constituting five spirals. The piece probably dates from the Middle Kingdom.

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