Circular Dish

Circular Dish

To create mosaic glass, Egyptian artisans fused slices of colored glass rods in a two-part mold and then polished the surface. Of the few examples that survive from antiquity, most come from the palace of Amunhotep III at Malkata, where the king sponsored royal workshops. The coloring on this example, which is the largest and best preserved of its type, is probably meant to imitate red granite.

• Medium: Mosaic glass
• Place Made: Egypt
• Dates: ca. 1390-1353 B.C.E.
• Dynasty: XVIII Dynasty
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• Period: New Kingdom
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Ushabti of Psamtek

Ushabti of Psamtek

The Egyptians manufactured funerary figurines, originally called shabties, as early as Dynasty 12 (1932–1759 B.C.E.). The earliest shabties are inscribed with either the deceased’s name (see nos. 1 and 2) or a simple form of Chapter 6 of the Book of the Dead. The rarity and high quality of the early shabties suggest that they were costly items produced for privileged persons.

Later, Chapter 6 began appearing more frequently on funerary figurines. The text mentions that they do agricultural tasks for the dead person: irrigating the fields, cultivating crops, and clearing away sand that blew in from the nearby desert.

As substitutes for the deceased, these figurines were sometimes given their own sarcophagi (see no. 6). To emphasize the agricultural function of the figurines, hoes and grain baskets were added to them (no. 8).

Wood (nos. 9–11), stone (nos. 12–14, 16), faience (no. 17), metal, and other materials were used beginning in Dynasty 18. By the end of the New Kingdom, statuettes for a single person were often mold-made by the hundreds and even thousands. Faience became the medium of choice, first in blue and later in light green or light blue (nos. 17, 20, 21).

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• Medium: Faience
• Reportedly From: Giza, Egypt
• Dates: 664-525 B.C.E.
• Dynasty: XXVI Dynasty
• Period: Late Period
• Dimensions: 7 5/16 x 1 7/8 x 1 1/8 in. (18.6 x 4.7 x 2.9 cm)  (show scale)
   
• Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
• Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Temples and Tombs, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
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  • Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity (On view since April 12, 2003)
• Accession Number: 37.163E
• Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
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• Caption: Ushabti of Psamtek, 664-525 B.C.E. Faience, 7 5/16 x 1 7/8 x 1 1/8 in. (18.6 x 4.7 x 2.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.163E. Creative Commons-BY
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Ushabti of Queen Keromama

Ushabti of Queen Keromama

• Medium: Faience
• Dates: ca. 1075-656 B.C.E.
• Dynasty: XXII Dynasty
• Period: Third Intermediate Period
• Dimensions: Height: 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm)  (show scale)
   

   

  
  

  
  

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• Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
• Museum Location: This item is not on view
• Accession Number: 37.209E

'The lady of Brussels'

'The lady of Brussels', from the Hagemans collection, is one of the oldest known examples of large-scale statuary in stone. Its archaic style allows it to be dated to the beginning of the 3rd Dynasty. The standard conventions of Egyptian statuary are already clearly in use here. The symmetry of the face and the wig is perfect. The left arm is folded across the chest, the right arm is stretched out close to the body and the legs are close together. The ...'lady' is dressed in a long robe which hugs her figure.

Present location KMKG - MRAH [07/003] BRUSSELS
Inventory number E.0752
Dating 3RD DYNASTY
Archaeological Site UNKNOWN
Category STATUE
Material LIMESTONE
Technique HEWN; SCULPTURED
Height 74.5 cm
Width 18.5 cm
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Menat of Taharqo

Menat of Taharqo, Late Period, Dynasty 25, reign of Taharqo, ca. 690–664 b.c.
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Faience; H. 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)
Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941 (41.160.104)
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Taharqo, son of Piye, who succeeded his younger brother Shebitqo, was raised in Nubia but established his capital at Memphis and began an extensive program of temple restoration throughout Egypt and Nubia. Capitalizing on the weakness of the Assyrian empire during the reign of Sennacherib, he made military incursions into the Levant and Libya. Unfortunately, during the reign of Esarhaddon, the Assyrian army descended on the Delta, driving Taharqo from Memphis back to Napata, the Kushite capital of Nubia, where he died.
This faience menat represents part of a heavy necklace carried in ritual scenes associated with the great female goddesses, although, given the material, it was itself probably created as a votive offering rather than for actual use. It shows the king being suckled by the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet. Below is a Horus falcon wearing the double crown of Egypt, which represents the king and is flanked by the vulture and uraeus, symbols of Upper and Lower Egypt. Such an object might have been offered at the temples of the great female goddesses or at the mammisi temples celebrating the birth of a juvenile god identified with the king.
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Tihna El-Gebel

Tihna El-Gebel está situada a unos 12 kms de distancia de Al Minya.
En esta zona se pueden visitar las ruinas de Akoris, al este del Nilo y situada al noreste de la ciudad de Tihna , también hay que destacar que a unos dos kilómetros están las tumbas Fraser, del reino antiguo y de las que también hablaremos.
El nombre que tenia en el antiguo Egipo era Dehenet y también recibió los nombres de Mer-nefer y Per-Imen-mat-chent

Mastaba de Niankhkhnum y Khnumhotep