domingo, 29 de mayo de 2022

Removing the Shrine of Taharqa

Removing the Shrine of Taharqa
Views of Egypt and Sudan 1922-1933
Photographs by Reginald St. Alban Heathcote © Griffith Institute
Concept, direction and editing: Jaromir Malek
Database: Anneli Chambliss
Scanning and picture editing: Jenni Navratil and Andrew Ganley
Web design: Stephen Cox
Coordination: Elizabeth Fleming
 

 

 

jueves, 26 de mayo de 2022

Statue of a Female Griffin

Statue of a Female Griffin
This statue depicts a seated female griffin. She is resting on her right side and has a curved tail, an erect mane and wings.
LIMESTONE
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
JE 29472
EGYPTIAN MUSEUM

 

miércoles, 25 de mayo de 2022

Ramesseum

Ramesseum

 













 

Amarna

 Amarna

 








 

Small statue in red terracotta of a lion seated on a plinth, representing the Meroitic deity Apedemak

Small statue in red terracotta of a lion seated on a plinth, representing the Meroitic deity Apedemak. The tail, shown on the left side, curves up following the shape of the body.
Present location INSTITUT DE PAPYROLOGIE ET D'ÉGYPTOLOGIE, UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE III [02/049] LILLE
Inventory number L 0624
Dating MEROITIC PERIOD
Archaeological Site NAQ`A
Category FIGURINE/STATUETTE
Material POTTERY
Technique FORMED BY HAND
Height 15.7 cm
Bibliography•Geus Francis, Nubie, les cultures antiques du Soudan, catalogue d'exposition, Lille, 1994, p.221, n°309.
•Gratien Brigitte, La Nubie au temps des pharaons, catalogue d'exposition, [Boulogne-sur-mer], 1975, p.28, n°311

 

Vase with Painted Animals

 








Vase with Painted Animals
MEDIUM Clay, slip
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS
Reportedly from: Girga (vicinity), Egypt
Reportedly from: Awlad Yehya, Upper Egypt, Egypt
DATES ca. 3300-3100 B.C.E.
PERIOD Predynastic Period, early Naqada III Period
DIMENSIONS 13 x Diam. 7 in. (33 x 17.8 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
ACCESSION NUMBER 61.87
CREDIT LINE Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
RIGHTS STATEMENT Creative Commons-BY
CAPTION Vase with Painted Animals, ca. 3300-3100 B.C.E. Clay, slip, 13 x Diam. 7 in. (33 x 17.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 61.87. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 61.87_front_PS6.jpg)
all buff colored vase with red decorations. Above, large aardvarks (?) and below, two aardvarks (?), the one behind holding tail of foremost in his mouth; below them, a series of four serpents. On opposite side of vase a series of six vertical serpents. All decorations matt finish. Condition: Cracked at rim.

Sarcófago de la mastaba 17

Sarcófago de la mastaba 17 , en Meidum
todavía está la maza que se dejaron los ladrones de tumbas.
 

 
 
 

 

Parte superior de una estatua femenina

Parte superior de una estatua femenina
piedra caliza
esta pieza similar a una estatua de Arsinoe II, en los museos Vaticanos
Museu egipci
Barcelona
 

 

 

Statue of Winged Female Sphinx

Statue of Winged Female Sphinx
During the New Kingdom, ancient Egyptians used the winged sphinx to symbolize the power of the pharaoh who tramples his enemies during war.
GOVERNORATE OF QENA: QIFT/COPTOS
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
Inventory number JE 25454
EGYPTIAN MUSEUM
 

 

 

Fragment statue

Fragment
statue
granite
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
ALEXANDRIA
Inventory number B.505.2
MUSÉE ROYAL DE MARIEMONT
B. VAN DE WALLE, Antiquités égyptiennes, in Les antiquités égyptiennes, grecques, étrusques, romaines et gallo-romaines du Musée de Mariemont, Bruxelles, 1952, p. 29-31; ID., «La “Cléopâtre” de Mariemont», in CdE, 47, 1949, p. 19-32; ID., «Un nouveau document concernant le prétendu groupe d’Antoine et de Cléopâtre», in CdE, 49, 1950, p. 34-35; M.-C. BRUWIER, «Les fragments d’une statue colossale de reine ptolémaïque à Mariemont», in Amosiadès. Hommages au Professeur Cl. Vandersleyen, Bruxelles, 1989, p. 45-58; ID., «Deux fragments d’une statue colossale de reine ptolémaïque à Mariemont», in CdE, 64, 1989, p. 25-43; Chr. ZIEGLER (éd.), Reines d’Égypte. D’Hétephérès à Cléopâtre (catalogue d’exposition. Monaco, Grimaldi Forum, 2008), p. 290; Cl. DERRIKS et L. DELVAUX (éds.), Antiquités égyptiennes au Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, 2009, p. 90-91.

 

lunes, 16 de mayo de 2022

Mastaba de Iymery

 

Mastaba de Iymery (G 6020)
Excavada por:
(Karl) Richard Lepsius, German, 1810–1884
George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
Dinastía V

Amenemhat IV au ouadi Gaouasis

Amenemhat IV au ouadi Gaouasis`
 

 

 

 

domingo, 15 de mayo de 2022

Réplica de una estela en la tumba de Horemheb

 

Réplica de una estela en la tumba de Horemheb, la original está en el museo Británico.
Podemos ver a Horemheb adorando a tres dioses : Ra-Horakhty, Thoth y Ma'at, en la parte de arriba.
Saqqara
 
 

 

sábado, 14 de mayo de 2022

Stele for Tjembu

Stele for Tjembu
In the round top of the stele, the shenu flanked by two udjat-eyes is shown. In the central register are Tjembu and his wife, sitting on a high-backed seat. The man has his left arm around the shoulders of the woman, who is holding a lotus flower to her face. Both are holding a ribbon in their right hand. In front of them is an offering table on the other side of which is a female figure pouring drink from a heset-vase. Two horizontal lines of hieroglyphs are incised under the scene.
Present location MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [05/027] FLORENCE
Inventory number 2511
Dating 18TH DYNASTY
Archaeological Site UPPER EGYPT
Category STELA
Material LIMESTONE
Technique LOW RELIEF; INCISION; PAINTED
Height 22.5 cm
Width 17.5 cm
Translation
Tjembu, Uri, Sennu.
An offering that the king gives to Osiris, the great god, that he may grant bread, beer, oxen, fowls, alabaster vases, clothes, incense and unguent, every pure thing for the ka of Tjembu. His daughter, who causes his name to live, Sennu.
Bibliography
S.Bosticco, Le stele egiziane del Nuovo Regno, II, Roma, 1965, pgg. 19-20, n. 8.