KEMET: octubre 2016

lunes, 31 de octubre de 2016

Amuleto-Toeris

Inventory number 4439

FAIENCE

E. Schiaparelli, Museo Archeologico di Firenze, Antichità egizie, Roma, 1887, pg 117, n. 958

MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [

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jueves, 13 de octubre de 2016

Figure of Monkey Seated on Ovoid Base

Figure of Monkey Seated on Ovoid Base, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Faience, 2 1/8 x 1 1/8 x 1 9/16 in. (5.4 x 2.8 x 4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 48.181. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum,

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Blue glazed figure of monkey seated on ovoid base. Body in the round, head at right angles to shoulders, ears pierced, hands extended grasping unidentified object supported by one foot and resting on base. Condition: Intact. Glaze slightly worn on front of body.

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3524

Female Ancestral Bust

Ancestral busts were kept in the home, perhaps used in rituals that helped maintain the deceased in the afterlife or allowed the living and dead to communicate. Both of these busts were made about the same time and demonstrate how even a cheaper pottery example could be exquisitely made and decorated, though clearly a painted limestone bust would have been more expensive to commission.

This text refers to these objects: 61.49; 54.1

MEDIUM Pottery, paint

•Possible Place Collected: Thebes (Deir el Medina), Egypt

DATES ca. 1539-1190 B.C.E.

DYNASTY XVIII Dynasty-XIX Dynasty

PERIOD New Kingdom

DIMENSIONS 6 5/16 x 3 x 2 5/16 in. (16 x 7.6 x 5.8 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

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