Calzada de Unas

Saqqara

escenas del libro de los muertos

A vignette from a Book of the Dead in which the dead man and his wife can be seen praying before Osiris. The man wears a short kilt with a long diaphanous overskirt and the lady wears a long gown held on the shoulder with one strap. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Egyptian Museum, Cairo . Location: 137.

Detail from the Book of the Dead of Nebqed. Arrival of the deceased in the court of the deity of the after-life. Country of Origin: Ancient Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: New Kingdom, early-mid 18th Dynasty,. Place of Origin: c.1400BC. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Louvre Museum,Paris . Location: 137

 Detail from the funerary papyrus of Nebqed. The dead man, followed by two women, stands before the god of the dead Osiris and presents him with offerings. Country of Origin: Ancient Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: New Kingdom, early-mid 18th Dynasty, c.1400BC. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Louvre Museum,Paris . Location: 137.

 

 Detail from the Book of the Dead of Nebqed. The dead man's soul in its ba-bird form flies down the tomb shaft. At the bottom, the underground chamber is depicted, complete with coffin and furniture. Country of Origin: Ancient Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: New Kingdom, early-mid 18th Dynasty,. Place of Origin: c.1400BC. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Louvre Museum,Paris . Location: 137.

lid of the inner scarcophagus

Detail of the lid of the inner scarcophagus, originally from an unidentified XIXth Dynasty burial but reused in the burial of XXIst Dynasty Pharaoh Psusennes I in the royal necropolis at Tanis. Within this scarcophagus the king's body lay under a sheet of gold inside a solid silver coffin. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty. Place of Origin: Tanis. Material Size: Black Granite. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Egyptian Museum, Cairo . Location: 47.

Templo de Ramses II. Abidos

El templo de Ramses II está situado al Noreste del cenotafio de Seti I.
Solamente se conserva `parte de las hiladas inferiores del segundo pilono.
En los restos del templo conservados se obserba la policronia en los relieves de las paredes, así como la temática diversa en las escenas.

Amarna

Amarna relief fragment depicting musicians and dancers. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: 18th dynasty Amarna period. Place of Origin: Amarna. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ McAlpine Collection, London. Location: 72.

The boundary stele of Akhenaten, marked Stele A by Finders Petrie, it was erected to mark the inclusion of the area to Akhenaten's new capital Amarna. Detail. Culture: Ancient Egyptian Date/Period: In use from the 19th Dynasty until Ptolemaic times, c.1295 - 100 BC. Place of Origin: Tuna el-Gebel. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive. Location: 34B.

Lower part of trial piece with face, possibly of Akhenaten. Country of Origin: Ancient Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Period/ Date: Amarna period c.1373-1357 BC. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Petrie Museum, London UC402. Loc 72

 The boundary stele of Akhenaten, marked Stele A by Finders Petrie, it was erected to mark the inclusion of the area to Akhenaten's new capital Amarna. Detail. Culture: Ancient Egyptian Date/Period: In use from the 19th Dynasty until Ptolemaic times, c.1295 - 100 BC. Place of Origin: Tuna el-Gebel. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive. Location: 34B.

 Amarna period head of a princess. Country of Origin:Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, 1346 - 1332 BC. Place of Origin: Tell el-Amarna. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Location: 76

 A fragment of a relief. Figures in a precession playing the sistrum. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: 18th dynasty c.1345 BC. Place of Origin: El Amarna. Material Size: Sunk relief in limestone. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Private Collection . Location: 72.

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