Painted wooden figure of a bird

Painted wooden figure of a bird

Wooden image of a bird, possibly the ibis, painted in black and white on both sides. Although ibis images are most common in the Late Period, the style and flat form of this example finds closer parallels in the late 18th Dynasty. A spoonbill of similar style, now in the Brooklyn Museum, was uncovered in excavation of the palace of Amenhotep III at el-Malqata.

THEBES: WEST BANK

3RD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD

Inventory number 1892:261

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND

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

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Painted wooden mask.

Painted wooden mask.

Brightly painted wooden face and brow from a wooden coffin or cartonnage mummy-case. The eye outlines and brows are in blue, and a beaded band separates the face from the lotus flowers above the forehead.

THEBES: WEST BANK

3RD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD

Inventory number 1892:258

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND

Margaret Murray, National Museum of Science and Art, General Guide III. Egyptian Antiquities, Dublin 1910, p. 16.

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Stela of Nesptah,

Stela of Nesptah,

The hieroglyphic text written on the lower part of the stela honors the dedicator.

SAQQARA NECROPOLIS

3RD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD: 25TH DYNASTY

Apis, Isis and NEPHTHYS

Inventory number JE 99113

EGYPTIAN MUSEUM

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Serpent

Serpent

This amulet in blue-green faience comes from the excavations of W. F. Petrie at El-Lahun. It represents Neheb-kaou, a chthonic divinity, with a human body and the head of a serpent, raising a spherical object to the mouth. The serpent-god symbolises the vital force in the universe and corresponds to a form of Re-Atum.

EL-LAHUN

3RD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD

Inventory number E.5675

KMKG - MRAH [

W. F. Petrie, G. Brunton et M. Murray, Lahun II, Londres 1923, 43 (comparer pl. L et LXVIII nº 32, 33)

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Nefer HEb and Deded Nebu

 

Group statue of Nefer-heb and Dedet-nebu.

The head of the man and the breasts, shoulders and head of the woman are missing. The two figures are standing on a pedestal that is nearly square and are joined together by a back plate, which reaches their shoulders.

The man is wearing a short pleated kilt. His right hand is held next to his body, with the left he is holding his wife's hand. She is dressed in a long, close-fitting garment. Her hands are held the same way as the man's, albeit in mirror image. There are ten columns of text on top of the pedestal and on the back plate .

ELKAB/NEKHEB

Basalt

2ND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD

Inventory number 5046

KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM

FUNERARY TEXT: FORMULA Htp-di-nsw.t

(1) An offering, which the king gives to Nekheby, Lord (2) of Nekheb, for the Ka of the "One of the Ten of Upper Egypt" (3) Nefer-heb, true of voice.

(4) An offering, which the king gives to Nekhbet, for the Ka of his wife (5) the lady of the house Dedet-nebu, true of voice.

(6) An offering, which the King gives to Osiris, the Great God, Lord of Abydos, so that he may give a funerary offering of bread and beer, oxen and fowl and all good and pure things on which a god lives, for the Ka of the "One of the Ten of Upper Egypt" Nefer-heb, true of voice, the "Living one of the troop of the ruler" Sa-djedyt, true of voice, and Senetes-ankh(ty), true of voice. An offering, which the king (9) gives to the Ka of his wife, the lady of the house Dedet-nebu, true of voice, begotten by the citizen (10) Iky, true of voice, and born of the lady of the house Heket-nefer, true of voice.

Jaros-Deckert, B., Statuen des Mittleren Reichs und der 18. Dynastie. Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum (1987) 25-33.

Delange, E., Rez. in: Bibliotheca Orientalis (BiOr) 46 (1989) 623.

Franke, D., Das Heiligtum des Heqaib auf Elephantine (Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altägyptens (SAGA) 9, 1994) 78, 289.

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Fertility figurine in unbaked clay

Fertility figurine in unbaked clay

Clay figure of a woman, highly stylised, upper part only surviving. The breasts, double necklace and nose were modelled of separate pieces of clay, and the ears are pierced to receive ear-rings. Such figures are found in burials of men and women, and appear to have been intended to evoke eternal fertility and rebirth.

Abydos

2ND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD

Inventory number 1913:260

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND

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Lower part of false door of Neferef.

 

Lower part of false door of Neferef.

1ST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD ?

Inventory number 8530

KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM

The preserved part of this false door consists of the outer and inner jambs and the door niche with door roll. There are inscriptions on the outer jambs, the lower section of the left lower jamb and on the door roll.

(1) An offering, which the king gives to Osiris, (an offering, which) Anubis (gives), who is at the forefront of the divine hall, may he be buried in the west (in his) tomb, a very beautiful age (for) the revered one with his lord, who is loved by (his) lord, (namely for) Neferef.

(2) An offering, which the king gives to Osiris, (an offering, which) Anubis (gives), [who is at the forefront] of the hall of the gods, the Lord of the sacred land, a funerary offering (at) any good festival (for) the chief of meret-people (of) "those of the sun-festival", (namely for) Neferef, (3) born of Djetefi (?).

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SCULPTOR'S MODEL

SCULPTOR'S MODEL

Relief: Sakhmet

limestone

Inventory number 1106

STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM

Golenischeff W., Ermitage Imperial. Inventaire de la collection #gyptienne. S.l., 1891, p.172, no.1106.

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BASTET

Statue

BASTET

CALCITE/ALABASTER

OLD KINGDOM: 4TH DYNASTY

Inventory number F 0002

PELIZAEUS-MUSEUM

Schmitz, B., Die Neuerwerbungen des Pelizaeus-Museums Hildesheim : Bericht für 1993/94 mit einem Überblick über die Entwicklung der Ägyptensammlung seit ihren Anfängen, in: Hildesheimer Jahrbuch für Stadt und Stift Hildesheim 67 (1995), Hildesheim 1996, S. 483-492 (S. 492).

Seidel, M., Die königlichen Statuengruppen : Band I; Die Denkmäler vom Alten Reich bis zum Ende der 18. Dynastie (Hildesheimer Ägyptologische Beiträge 42), Hildesheim 1996, Dok. 2, Tf. 2.

Porter, B. & Moss, R.L.B., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings, vol. VIII : Objects of provenance not known, Oxford 1999, S. 9. 1153.

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