shabti box

Wooden shabti box

Category:

funerary equipment

Name:

shabti box

Date:

332 B.C. — 30 B.C.

Period(s):

Ptolemaic period; New Kingdom

Description:

shabti box, with painted decoration of protective deities, surmounted by ba bird. The shabti box is in the form of a shrine - images of a door and the four sons of Horus (who appear in funerary contexts) are painted onto the outsides.

Thebes

Technique: painted

Material: wood

Dimension(s):

depth, 24.7, cm

height, 40.8, cm

width, 22.7, cm

Acquisition:

bought; 1887; Budge, Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis

Documentation:

Budge, E.A. Wallis. 1893. Catalogue of the Egyptian collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

no. 11

Accession:

Object Number: E.10.1887

The Fitzwilliam Museum

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Estela de Seba

Estela de Seba

Escriba del tesoro del dios Ptah

XVI dinastía

Neues Museum

Berlín

 

 

 

Doble estatua de Nefertari y Pendua.

Doble estatua de Nefertari y Pendua.

calcárea. siglo XII antes de C

Museo egipcio de Turín

 

 

Doble estatua de Horemheb y su esposa Mutnedjmet

Doble estatua de Horemheb y su esposa Mutnedjmet

dinastía XVIII
Museo egipcio de Turín

 

 

khaibit

una imagen del khaibit o sombra aparece en esta escena de la tumba de Deir el Medina 290, la de Arinefer
fuente imagen -Los faraones- Cyryl Aldred-Desroches Noblecourt

 

 

Mummy of Katebet

Mummy of Katebet

Late 18th dynasty
about 1300 BC

From Thebes

This mummy was discovered in the 1820 in a tomb , togheter with the mummy, probably her husband, called Qenna

Britih Museum

 

 

Limestone fragment of the beard of the sphinx.

Limestone fragment of the beard of the sphinx.

Eighteenth dynasty

about 1420 BC

From Giza

The beards was probably made durung restoration work undertaken in the New Kingdom and does not date to the original construction of the sphinx in the old kingdom, about 2550

EA 58

British Museum

 

 

 

Part of a statue of Tashereteneset wearing a modius

Part of a statue of Tashereteneset wearing a modius

EA 775

granorite

twenty-sixth dynasty
about 560 BC

Provenance unknown.

The inscription on the back pillar indicates taht this woman was the mother of a King but his name has been erased. Probably was Amasis.
Persian rulers damaged statues.

British Museum

 

 

Wall relief of Osorkon II

Wall relief of Osorkon II

22nd dynasty

from Bubastis

British Museum

 

 

Mastaba de Seshemnefer

 Mastaba de Seshemnefer

 

Giza

 

 

Calzada de Unas. Saqqara.

Calzada de Unas. Saqqara.

 

 

Shabti Box of Ankhshepenwepet

Shabti Box of Ankhshepenwepet

ca. 712–664 B.C.

Third Intermediate Period (Kushite)

The burial of Ankhshepenwepet included two small wooden shabti boxes with vaulted ends and flat lids. These were painted white, and inscribed with an offering prayer in black bordered with red lines around the box. As was usual for shabti boxes of this era, each lid was painted with an image of a boat in green-blue, yellow, and red, with a band of blue-green beneath the boat to represent water. These representations are likely connected with a pilgrimage to the sacred site of Abydos, cult place of the god Osiris, ruler of the dead. By traveling to this holy place, either in reality or symbolically, the deceased became associated with this god and was aided in his or her journey to join the ranks of the blessed dead.

On the other box (25.3.207), the boat has its sail up, as if it were traveling south on its return from Abydos. This one depicts a boat with a cabin, perhaps meant to represent a second boat towed by the sailing boat. The re-animated deceased could take shelter within the kiosk.

Inside the boxes were a total of 374 (158 in one and 216 in the other) small unbaked mud figures called shabtis, one for each day of the year. These were meant to carry out menial labor on behalf of the deceased if she were called upon to work in the afterlife.

itle: Shabti Box of Ankhshepenwepet

Period: Third Intermediate Period (Kushite)

Dynasty: Dynasty 25–26

Date: ca. 712–664 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb MMA 56, MMA excavations, 1923–24

Medium: Wood, paint

Dimensions: L. 25 cm (9 13/16 in.); h. 19.5 cm ( 7 11/16 in.)

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1925

Accession Number: 25.3.206.1a, b

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/548281

 

 

 

 

Offering chapel of Ka-ni-nisut

Offering chapel of Ka-ni-nisut

The entrance to this offering chapel is formed by a corridor covered with reliefs. One noteworthy detail here is the bringing of an antelope. On the western wall of the chamber itself are two false doors which symbolize the connection with the realm of the deceased. Behind the false door on the left was the closed-off statue room, the so-called serdâb, in front of which the daily offerings were placed. In between the false doors, the reliefs represent Ka-ni-nisut ("My vitality belongs to the king") and his wife Nefret-ha-nisut ("Goodness surrounds the king") with their three children opposite them. The names of the children are Her-wer ("Horus is great"), Wadjit-hetepti ("Uto is pacified"), and Ka-ni-nisut junior. Four officials and five mortuary priests are represented with offerings in their hands, followed in the lower register by ten servants of the deceased. The tomb owner is wearing a wig and a short kilt with pleats. Over his shoulder is a panther skin as a sign of his high priestly office. His right hand is leaning on a long stick and his left is holding a sceptre as a sign of his dignity. His wife is wearing a long wig and the close-fitting white dress of ladies of the Old Kingdom. The two eldest children are dressed like their parents in a kilt and a dress respectively. The youngest is represented naked. The head of the office, Wehem-ka, is represented writing, while the three scribes each clutch a container with papyrus under their arms. They each have two reed pens behind one ear. Their painter's palettes are shells suspended from their belts. The mortuary priests are bearing a wash basin, an incense burner, a crane, and two ducks. The servants are carrying an ox leg, geese, ducks, a gazelle, a roasted goose, a piece of meat on a plate, more geese, a reed basket, and a cup with a lid. The last two in the row of servants are again mortuary priests. The hieroglyphic legends mention the names and functions of the persons depicted. The short vertical lines above in the middle list the numerous titles and functions of the tomb owner himself. In front of the head of the office, the title of the entire scene appears: "Viewing the lists". The northern wall again shows Ka-ni-nisut with various chancellery personnel presenting lists to him. Next to the tomb owner is his eldest son on a smaller scale, represented as a small child. Over the entrance on the eastern wall are representations of the two boats on which Ka-ni-nisut is to undertake his journeys. However, the legends here mention mortuary ritual journeys. To the right are rows of representatives of settlements which are to pay taxes. Twenty-five women and five men are represented in two rows. Three bulls are brought as offerings and another two are being slaughtered. The southern wall ends with the scene of the deceased seated at a table of offerings, with its lengthy offering list, which has been damaged. The lower register on the eastern wall also belongs to this scene, representing a long row of mortuary priests and employees carrying offerings. Ka-ni-nisut was a powerful and a rich man who probably lived in the early 5th Dynasty. His claim to be a "bodily son of the king" is presumably not to be taken literally, but as an honorific title.

Present location KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM [09/001] VIENNA

Inventory number 8006

Dating 5TH DYNASTY

Archaeological Site GIZA NECROPOLIS

Category CHAPEL

Material LIMESTONE

Technique HIGH RELIEF

Width 143 cm

Bibliography

Satzinger, H., Das Kunsthistorische Museum in Wien. Die Ägyptisch-Orientalische Sammlung. Zaberns Bildbände zur Archäologie 14. Mainz. 1994, 90-93, Abb. 62a-c.

Junker, H., Vorbericht über die zweite Grabung bei den Pyramiden von Gizeh vom 16. Dezember 1912 bis 24. März 1913 (1913) 13-19, Taf. 4.

Junker, H., Gîza 2 (1934) 135-172, Abb. 12-22, Taf. 5-10.

Junker, H., Die Kultkammer des Prinzem Kanjnjswt im Wiener Kunsthistorischen Museum (1925, 1928).

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=5546

 

 

 

mehen

Mehen game with game stones, from Abydos, Egypt, 3000 BC, Neues Museum
Years active	dating from approximately 3000 BC and continues until the end of the Old Kingdom, around 2300 BC
Genres	Board game

 

Bronze plate with kneeling man and animals.

Bronze plate with kneeling man and animals.

Bronze plate with a kneeling man. To his left and right are two squatting monkeys. In front of them are two recumbent lions and a frog.

Inventory number 4270
KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=4977

 

 

 

talatat

talatat (block of standardized size) with relief - description: bust of queen Nefertiti - production place: Achet-Aton / Amarna - period / date: New Kingdom, later 18. dynasty, Amarna-period, ca. 1340 BC - material: limestone, painted - findspot: Achet-Aton / Amarna - museum / inventory number: Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum E.GA.4530.1943 - Please note: The above museum permits photography of its exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes. If you intend to use the photo for any commercial aime

 

 

 

relief

architectural relief - description: oversseer of workman holding a whip - production place: Egypt - period / date: New Kingdom, early 18. dynasty, ca. 1473-1458 BC - material: limestone, painted - findspot: Deir el Bahari, funerary temple of pharaoh Hatshepsut, obelisk portico, western wall - museum / inventory number: Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum E.GA.4502.1943 - Please note: The above museum permits photography of its exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes

 

 

cosmetic palette

cosmetic palette - production place: Egypt - period / date: predynastic, Negade/Naqada-I culture, Amratian, 4000-3500 BC - material: slate - height: 14,8 cm - findspot: Matmar - museum / inventory number: Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum E.16.1930 - Please note: The above museum permits photography of its exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes.  

 

 

casa del alma

soul house

Fitzwilliam Museum

public domain

 

 

 

Stele di arpocrate

Stele di arpocrate, nuovo regno

Egyptian collection in the Museo Archeologico (Naples)

public domain

 

 

 

head from a mummy case

This human face has eyes and eyebrows that are hollow for inlay. The top is cut off roughly. The back is smooth. There are two holes in the back for attachment, and an extention below the chin with a hole through it for attachment.

Walters Art Museum

Public domain

 

 

commemorative stone

Daughter of King Thutmose I and wife of her half-brother, King Thutmose II, Queen Hatshepsut eventually ruled Egypt as pharaoh in her own right. This commemorative stone was placed at a construction site, probably of the temple built for her at Deir el-Bahari, one of the most beautiful monuments of ancient Egypt. It bears the queen's throne name, Maat-ka-re, as well as that of the temple's architect, Senenmut.

Walters Art Museum

public domain