Statue of ram of Amun with the pharoah Taharqa, made of granite, circa 690-664 BC. EA 1779.
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domingo, 27 de junio de 2021
Stele with adoration of the Cat of the Re and the great cat.
Ashmolean
View of Gerf Hussein, before flooding and reconstruction
View of Gerf Hussein, before flooding and reconstruction
Senpou
Senpou, chef de service du bureau du ravitaillement, entouré de sa famille, trouvé à Abydos, calcaire et albâtre. Salle 23, vitrine: statues de la XIIIème dynastie. E 11573. Antiquité égyptienne du musée du Louvre.
sábado, 26 de junio de 2021
Stela of Tiberius
The stela has a rounded top with a winged sun disk; two uraei hang down from it, one wearing the white crown and the other wearing the red crown. Underneath is a representation of Tiberius presenting an offering to Mut and Khons. He kneels and holds out a little sphinx wearing the red crown and holding a small offering bowl. The emperor is dressed in a short kilt with a triangular apron; he wears a collar and the blue khepresh-crown with a uraeus and ribbons.<BR>Mut is seated on a throne, clad in an undecorated long gown. She wears a collar and a long wig with a vulture head dress and the Double Crown. She holds a papyrus staff in her right hand and an ankh-sign in her left hand.<BR>The falcon-headed god Khons is also seated on a throne, wearing a short kilt; on his head is a crescent with a sun disk and uraeus. In his right hand he holds the uas-sceptre and in the left an ankh-sign.<BR>Each figure is on a platform; above them are legenda, below the scene are seven horizontal lines of text. Above the legenda is an outstretched sky-sign, supported by two uas-sceptres standing on the lower text line.
Inventory number APM 7763
ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM
http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=12499
Block Bearing the Name of King Sahure
Block Bearing the Name of King Sahure
This small hieroglyphic inscription, probably once a part of a wall or a column, gives only two names for King Sahure.
The first one is the Horus name inscribed inside the Serekh, or facade of the palace, below a depiction of the falcon god Horus. The second one, the official coronation name "Sahure," is inscribed inside the royal cartouche.
GOVERNORATE OF GIZA (INCLUDING MEMPHIS): DAHSHOUR
granite
Inventory number SR 14996, TR 10/12/24/1
EGYPTIAN MUSEUM
OLD KINGDOM: 5TH DYNASTY: SAHURE
Museo Nacional de Sudán. amuleto del nudo de Isis.
Museo Nacional de Sudán. amuleto del nudo de Isis.
Pyramid of Amanishakheto
Illustration of the Pyramid of Amanishakheto, Wad Ban Naga, Sudan before it was destroyed by looting
jueves, 24 de junio de 2021
Thutmose III's mummy
Photograph of the head of 
Thutmose III's mummy, from Catalogue of the Royal Mummies in the Museum of Cairo, published 1912 by Dr. Grafton Elliot Smith.
Thutmose III's mummy, from Catalogue of the Royal Mummies in the Museum of Cairo, published 1912 by Dr. Grafton Elliot Smith.
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A fragment of a wall block
A fragment of a wall block. The hieroglyphs "Son of Ra" were inscribed over the cartouche of the birth-name of Thutmos III and the epithet "Beautiful of Form". The original yellow, red, and black colors within the cartouche can be seen. Limestone, 18th Dynasty. From Egypt. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London. With thanks to the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL.
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martes, 22 de junio de 2021
Fragment of the head and shoulders of a female (?) shabti
Fragment of the head and shoulders of a female (?) shabti
Only the head and shoulders are preserved. The head wears a plain wig. The chest and shoulders are flat, while the back is rounded. The details of the face, eyes, eyebrows and mouth are very finely executed.
LATE PERIOD: 26TH DYNASTY
C.W. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Catalogus eener verzameling Egyptische, Grieksche, Romeinsche en andere oudheden, 1909, 57 (nr. 21)
H.D. Schneider, Shabtis I, 1977, 159ff.
W.M. van Haarlem, CAA Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, Fasc. II, vol. 2, 1990, 161-162
ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM
Inventory number: APM 173
globalegyptianmuseum
lunes, 21 de junio de 2021
muñecas trapo
Hay
algunas muñecas de trapo egipcias datadas sobre el año 2000 antes de
XC., pero no sabemos si eran juguetes para niños u objetos rituales; ya
que algunos debieron ser usados en ritos de fertilidad.
Algunos
estudiosos piensan que eran juguetes hechos para que jugaran los niños,
en el periodo romano. Petrie, en el año 1888 y durante sus excavaciones ,
encontró una muñeca con algunas ropas en Hawara. Localizó la muñeca en
la tumba de un niño, junto con otras miniaturas. La tumba está datada en
la cuarta centuria.
La muñeca encontrada por Petrie esta hecha
de lino y está rellenada con juncos. Los ojos y cejas de la cara están
pintados en negro. Tiene además el pelo peinado y con trenzas. El brazo
derecho de la muñeca esta suelto, pero el brazo izquierdo está unido al
hombro. Las piernas han sido cortadas por las ingles.
En algunas
partes del cuerpo de la muñeca se observan puntadas de lana roja para
marcar partes del cuerpo, como los pezones e ingles. El lino es cosido
por la parte de atrás de la figura.
La muñeca llevaba una túnica
cuando Petrie la encontró, pero desgraciadamente esta prenda se ha
perdido. Un montoncito de trozos de y lino lana estaban con la muñeca,
pero todos se conservan como fragmentos. Se conservan un fragmento de
lino y varios de lana (UC28030). El de lino está decorado con puntadas
de lana roja .
Los fragmentos de lana son: 2 en rojo (uno de ellos con borlas amarillas), 1 verde claro, 1 verde oscuro y uno púrpura y azul.
Las
puntadas en los fragmentos son bastante toscas y posiblemente fueron
hechas por el niño para fabricarle vestidos para la muñeca.
sábado, 19 de junio de 2021
DEIR EL-BAHARI Shrine of the Goddess Hathor
DEIR EL-BAHARI Shrine of the Goddess Hathor
This shrine and the cow's statue were retrieved from under heaps of debris south of the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. The shrine is from the reign of Tuthmosis the Third. Its roof is painted blue with yellow stars to imitate the Vault of Heaven.
On the front wall, Tuthmosis the Third is burning incense and pouring a libation in front of Amun-Re. The same scene is depicted on both of the side walls.
At the end of each scene, the king repeats the ceremonies of worship four times before the goddess Hathor, here represented as a woman. He then consecrates offerings to the figure of Hathor depicted as a cow standing in her shrine. There is a small image of Tuthmosis the Third painted in black beneath the cow's head. Another image of Tuthmosis the Third, nude and painted black, shows him suckling milk from the cow's udder.
To the left, Tuthmosis the Third is helped by his Queen, Meretre. To the right, the king stands followed by the royal daughter and sister, Meritamun, together with a second woman whose name has been obliterated.
DEIR EL-BAHARI
Inventory number JE 38575
EGYPTIAN MUSEUM
Kate Bosse-Griffits
Kate Bosse-Griffits nace el 16 de julio e 1910 en Alemania. Estudió clásicas y egiptología en las universidades de Berlín, Bonn y Munich.
Hizo una tesis doctoral sobre la escultura egipcia.
Fue profesora en el Departamento de egiptológica de La University Collage de Londres y también formó parte del Departamento de Antigüedades del museo Ashmolean , en el año 1938.
Siendo su marido, John Gwyn Griffits profesor de Oxford , le conoce y se casan en el año 1936.
Los dos se van a Swansea y allí trabajan en la University college.
Kate Bosse-Griffits también formó parte de la Royal Institution de Gles del Sur. Ayudó a traer y conservar la colección de antigüedades del Departamento de clásicas en Swansea en el año 1071.
También su ayuda fue valiosa con las exhibiciones de objetos de artes de diversas colecciones en el departamento de arte de la Universidad de Gales.
Publicó varios libros y artículos de temas variados y destacan sus artículos para el Jornal of Egyptian Archeology. También publica una novela titulada “Uneasy Joy”.
Muere el día 4 de abril de 1988 a los 88 años de edad.
miércoles, 16 de junio de 2021
Upper Portion of a Striding Statue of a Priest
Upper Portion of a Striding Statue of a Priest
To the right of the central figure of a priest is the standard of a human-headed god wearing a crown with horns and double plumes, perhaps Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. To the left is the standard of the lion-headed goddess Sakhmet, who sports a solar disk.
These standards are indications of privilege representing the king's essential life force, known as his ka. They enabled the bearer to hear prayers and to forward them to the gods. Such standard-bearing sculptures were popular in Dynasty XIX, and this fragment can be dated to that time by the type of wig the priest wears and by his downward-slanting, almond-shaped eyes. Most comparable sculptures, however, bear only one standard, usually the ram-headed god Amun.
Medium: Stone
Place Made: Egypt
Dates: ca. 1295-1185 B.C.E.
Dynasty: XIX Dynasty
Period: New Kingdom
Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 7 5/16 x 4 1/8 in. (14 x 18.5 x 10.5 cm)
Brooklyn >Museum
Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen ca. 1580–1550 B.C.
Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen
New Kingdom
This image of a queen wearing the vulture headdress over a voluminous tripartite wig was split off its backslab in antiquity, most probably by somebody who wanted to make use of this conveniently shaped piece of stone for other purposes. It is conceivable that a king (her father, son, or husband) was originally represented seated beside her. The sculpture has been identified tentatively as Queen Ahmes Nefertari, mother of Amenhotep I, and dated to the reign of Ahmose (ca. 1550-1525 B.C.) at the very beginning of the 18th Dynasty. However, the remarkable flatness of the face and wig is familiar from certain works created during the 17th Dynasty (compare the seated statue of Siamun, 65.115), and the intriguing interplay of fleshy musculature in the lower part of the face is even reminiscent of late Middle Kingdom images. This combination of stylistic traits is best understood in the context of the excitingly multifaceted artistic period between the end of the Middle and the beginning of the New Kingdom.
Title: Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Late Dynasty 17–Early Dynasty 18
Date: ca. 1580–1550 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Asasif, Courtyard CC 41, radim, MMAexcavations, 1915–16
Medium: Indurated limestone, paint
Dimensions: H. 28 cm (11 in.); W. 17.8 cm (7 in.); D. 10 cm (3 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1916
Accession Number: 16.10.224
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544454
martes, 15 de junio de 2021
Funerary figurine of Queen Neferu
Funerary figurine of Queen Neferu
ca. 2051–2030 B.C.
Middle Kingdom
Several miniature coffins were found in the tomb of queen Neferu. They were inscribed with funerary formulas and the name of the deceased like actual coffins. Each of the miniature coffins contained a wax or mud figurine of a nude woman wrapped in linen and identified as Neferu herself by a short inscription. Such figures are known from other tombs of Dynasty 8 and 11. Funerary figurines of this type are probably the forerunners of the so called shabtis, which evolved in Dynasty 12 and became very popular from the New Kingdom on.
This figurine was found inside the miniature coffin 25.3.244b, c. For other such figurines and coffins see 25.3.240a-c, .241a-c, .243a-c.
Title: Funerary figurine of Queen Neferu
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 11
Reign: reign of Mentuhotep II, early
Date: ca. 2051–2030 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb of Neferu (TT 319, MMA 31), corridor, MMA excavations, 1923–24
Medium: Wax
Dimensions: H. 12.5 cm (4 15/16 in)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1925
Accession Number: 25.3.244a
lunes, 14 de junio de 2021
Silouette female figurine
Silouette female figurine
The flat silhouette statuette is a conventional image of a woman rendering the contours of the body in a stylised manner. The head is rendered as a rectangle to which hair made of grain might be attached; the nipples are marked by black dots; the abdomen below the waist is decorated by a pattern of coloured triangles, the pubic area is covered by black dots. The woman wears an amulet on her neck, a necklace on her breast, bracelets on her wrists and a band on her waist. The body is painted ochre, the amulette and the necklace are red, the triangle pattern is red, brown and black. Such statuettes had a magic significance and were placed into the tombs of predecessors in order to heal the female infertility.
WOODEN
Red, black, white, brown pigments
MIDDLE KINGDOM
inventory number 5568
STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM
Matthieu M.E., Koptskie i egipetskie magicheskie zhenskie statuetki. TOVE I,1939. p.174, tab.IV.
Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, p.62, cat.no.58.
Writer-bookkeeper
Writer-bookkeeper
This painted wooden figurine of the Middle Kingdom was part of a larger group which was not preserved or which was broken up for the art trade. The scribe is holding a writing support on his knees. This was probably a wooden board whitened with stucco, which could be wiped after each use. The text is limited to a summary of foodstuffs. Seeing that the majority of similar objects has been found in tombs, it is certain that the summary written by the scribe on the tablet must be interpreted as a verbal list of provisions meant for the dead.
wood
MIDDLE KINGDOM
inventory number E.6811
KMKG - MRAH
W. Seipel, Ägypten. Götter, Gräber und die Kunst. 4000 Jahre Jenseitsglaube. (Exposition), Linz 1989, 109 n° 76
F. Lefebvre et B. Van Rinsveld, L'Égypte. Des Pharaons aux Coptes, Bruxelles 1990, 54-55, 227
Museumstukken als figuranten in een stripverhaal - ...Quand la BD s'inspire des objets du Musée (Exposition), Bruxelles 1996, 16
Estatua de Isis lactante
Estatua de Isis lactante
Meroítico
Gebel Barkal - Sudan
AM 2258
Neues Museum Berlin
Concubine
Concubine
POTTERY
MIDDLE KINGDOM
inventory number APM 7417
ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM
http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=12486
domingo, 13 de junio de 2021
Doll with Hair of Mud Beads
The flat wooden doll has hair made of mud beads, which are attached to the head. The head itself is a small ball of black fabric. A white bead stitched to the face represents one eye; the other eye is missing.
The body is a vertical wooden paddle shape with two small hands. The upper part of the piece of wood has drawings in black, which include dots, depicting a pectoral and breasts. Several dots fill a triangular shape that represent the feminine parts.
The upper part is decorated with four vertical lines separated by diagonal stripes. The middle part has long vertical lines with diagonal hatching in between. The hatching is alternatively lined to the right and left like the pattern on the upper part. This pattern alternates between red and black colors.
The lower part has a checkered design painted in red and black alternately.
DEIR EL-BAHARI
MIDDLE KINGDOM: 11TH DYNASTY
Inventory number JE 56274
EGYPTIAN MUSEUM
http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=15693
Stela
Stela
A round-topped limestone stela belonging to Mentuhotep. In the arch at the top of the stela are two udjat-eyes flanking a shen-ring. Underneath are six horizontal lines of inscription, the htp-dj-nsw offering formula. In the second register are two figures standing and facing one another. On the left stands the deceased, holding a lotus flower to his nose, opposite him is his brother, Tutu. Their names and titles are inscribed in a vertical line in front of each figure.
See Preservation Comment in Advanced Mode.
Esma
MIDDLE KINGDOM
Htp dj nswJnpwtpy Dw=f Wsjr nTr aA nb AbDw dj=sn prt-xrw t Hnqt kAw Apdw Ss mnxt mrHt xt-nbt nfrt wabt anxt nTr jm n kA n anx n niwt MnTw-Htp mAa-xrw jr.n dHw-snb mAa-xrw ms.n nbt-pr ja-jb mAa.t-xrw nb(t) jmAxy
A boon which the king gives to Anubis, who is upon his mountain, and Osiris, Great God, Lord of Abydos, that they may give invocation offerings of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, clothing, oil and alabaster and every good and pure thing on which a god lives, for the Ka of the Citizen, Mentuhotep, true of voice, born of Dehu-seneb, true of voice, born of the Mistress of the House, Ia-ib, true of voice and blessed lady.
The Citizen, Mentui.
His brother, the Elder of the Portal, Tutu.
Inventory number 25.11.05.178
LIVERPOOL MUSEUM
Dorothy Downes; "The Excavations at Esna", 1905-1906, (1974) p. 68, fig.32.
Outer coffin of Senebtisi
Outer coffin of Senebtisi
Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 12, late–early 13
Date: ca. 1850–1775 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Memphite Region, Lisht North, Tomb of Senwosret (758), Pit 763, burial of Senebtisi, MMA excavations, 1907–08
Medium: Coffin: cedar, paint, gold leaf; Eye panel: gold leaf over stucco, travertine (Egyptian alabaster) and obsidian
Dimensions: L. 194 cm (76 3/8 in); w. 55 cm (21 5/8 in)
Metmuseum
Figurine of bewitchment
Figurine of bewitchment
This figurine in clay is part of a large number of identical objects that Jean Capart purchased in Cairo in 1938. They probably come from the necropolis of Saqqara, like a share of figurines preserved at the Museum of Cairo. The pieces represent, in a very schematic manner, a person kneeling, the arms tied behind the back. They must have served in the performance of bewitchment rituals in order to render the enemies of Egypt and of the king harmless. This example is entirely filled with written texts in black ink and noted in a very cursive hieratic text, difficult to dicipher.
SAQQARA NECROPOLIS
MIDDLE KINGDOM: 12TH DYNASTY
Inventory number E.7611
KMKG - MRAH
Porter and Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings III² 549
Witte magie, zwarte magie (Exposition), Bruxelles 1995, 16
martes, 8 de junio de 2021
Statue of Lady Sennuwy
Statue of Lady Sennuwy
Egyptian
Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, reign of Senwosret I
1971–1926 B.C.
Medium/Technique Granodiorite
Dimensions Framed (The object sits on epoxy bed /structural steel pallet tubing): 21.6 x 62.2 x 116.2 cm (8 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 45 3/4 in.)
Mount (Steel channel base with cross bracing 3" x 3/16"): 30.5 x 62.2 x 116.2 cm (12 x 24 1/2 x 45 3/4 in.)
Overall (steel pallet and object, weighed): 170.2 x 116.2 x 47 cm, 1224.71 kg (67 x 45 3/4 x 18 1/2 in., 2700 lb.)
Weight (Object and steel pallet with attaching steel base, estimate): 1319.97 kg (2910 lb.)
Weight (Object (calculated by subtracting estimate of pallet weight)): 1079.56 kg (2380 lb.)
Credit Line Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession Number14.720
DescriptionEgyptian officials of the Middle Kingdom continued the practice of equipping their tombs with statues to house the ka of the tomb owner and to provide a focal point for the offering cult. Highly ranked officials also dedicated statues of themselves at sanctuaries of gods and deified ancestors. Following the experimental and idiosyncratic interlude of the First Intermediate Period, sculptors once again produced large-scale stone statues, returning to the basic forms and poses established in the Old Kingdom.
This elegant seated statue of Lady Sennuwy of Asyut is one of the most superbly carved and beautifully proportioned sculptures from the Middle Kingdom. The unknown artist shaped and polished the hard, gray granodiorite with extraordinary skill, suggesting that he was trained in a royal workshop. He has portrayed Sennuwy as a slender, graceful young woman, dressed in the tightly fitting sheath dress that was fashionable at the time. The carefully modeled planes of the face, framed by a long, thick, striated wig, convey a serene confidence and timeless beauty. Such idealized, youthful, and placid images characterize the first half of Dynasty 12 and hark back to the art of the Old Kingdom. Sennuwy sits poised and attentive on a solid, blocklike chair, with her left hand resting flat on her lap and her right hand holding a lotus blossom, a symbol of rebirth. Inscribed on the sides and base of the chair are hieroglyphic texts declaring that she is venerated in the presence of Osiris and other deities associated with the afterlife.
Sennuwy was the wife of a powerful provincial governor, Djefaihapi of Asyut, whose rock-cut tomb is the largest nonroyal tomb of the Middle Kingdom. Clearly, the couple had access to the finest artists and materials available. It is likely that this statue, along with a similar sculpture of Djefaihapi, was originally set up in the tomb chapel, although they may also have stood in a sanctuary. Both statues were discovered, however, far to the south at Kerma in Nubia, where they had been buried in the royal tumulus of a Nubian king who lived generations after Sennuwy's death. They must have been removed from their original location and exported to Nubia some three hundred years after they were made. Exactly how, why, and when these pieces of sculpture, along with numerous other Egyptian statues, found their way to Kerma, however, is still unknown.
ProvenanceFound in Sudan, Kerma, K III, hall A, but originally from Egypt. 1913: Excavated by the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of the Sudan. (Accession Date: July 2, 1914)
sábado, 5 de junio de 2021
Necklace with globular blue beads
This blue necklace was found during the excavations of J. Garstang at Abydos. It is composed of globular beads modelled in blue faience. The piece dates from the Middle Kingdom.
Abydos
fayence
MIDDLE KINGDOM
E. Warmenbol (Éd.), Ombres d'Égypte, le peuple de Pharaon (Exposition), Treignes 1999, 124 nº 155
Inventory number
E.1916
KMKG - MRAH
viernes, 4 de junio de 2021
Decorated ostrich egg
Decorated ostrich eggs date mainly from the second millennium BC, and the majority are decorated with dots and white lines, or black zig-zag lines; eggs bearing incised lines, spirals and even animal outlines are much rarer. The egg in Brussels is decorated with 37 engraved spirals, running from the base to the top of the shell. The purpose of this type of object is unknown.
MIDDLE KINGDOM > nEW kIGNDM
KMKG - MRAH
INVENTORY NUMBER KMKG - MRAH
S. Hendrickx, in T. Phillips, Africa. The Art of a Continent (Exposition Londres 1995), Munich-New York-Londres 1995, 78 n° 1.37
martes, 1 de junio de 2021
Model of bread and beer making
Model of bread and beer making
Bread and beer were among the basic elements of food in Egypt. They placed them in their tombs and enumerated them in offering lists on tomb walls and on sarcophagi. From the end of the Old Kingdom, wooden models showing the production of bread and beer became part of funerary equipment. This small model consists of three persons, two women preparing bread and a man carrying two jugs. Another, much larger jug, standing next to the breadboard, probably contained beer.
EL-SHEIKH `ABADA/ANTINOOPOLIS
iNVENTORY NUMBER E.0785/17
KMKG - MRAH
W. Seipel, Ägypten. Götter, Gräber und die Kunst. 4000 Jahre Jenseitsglaube (Exposition), Linz 1989, I 104 n° 70
E. Warmenbol (Éd.), Ombres d'Égypte, le peuple de Pharaon (Exposition), Treignes 1999, 85 nº 64
A. Gros de Beler, Vie quotidienne, L'archéologue 44 (1999) 21
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