Offering table

Offering table

The offering tables in stone were supposed to transform, through magic, the food and drink carved on them into real sustenance, to be used as daily meal. On this table there are aligned round breads and libation vases, next to stylized lotus flowers. There are inscriptions in Meroitic language all around the piece. There are traces on the surface of the original polychromy in red and yellow.

Present location MUSEO ARQUEOLÓGICO NACIONAL [21/007] MADRID

Inventory number 1980/98/252

Dating MEROITIC PERIOD

Archaeological Site MASMAS:-NAG`GAMUS

Category OFFERING TABLE (Htp)

Material SANDSTONE

Technique HEWN

Width 39.5 cm

Bibliography

PEREZ - DIE, Mª C., Egipto. Guía didáctica del Museo Arqueológico Nacional. I, 1985, P. 61.

PEREZ - DIE, Mª C., Egipto y Próximo Oriente. Guía general del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 1966, P. 111, 1992.

ALMAGRO BASCH, M.; ALMAGRO GORBEA, Mª J.; PEREZ - DIE, Mª C., Arte Faraónico. Exposición, 1975, P. 282 Nº 209.

ALMAGRO BASCH, M., La necrópolis meroítica de Nag Gamús. (Masmás. Nubia egipcia), Memorias de la Misión Arqueológica Española en Nubia, VIII, 1965, Pp. 74-75 Lám. XXIII, 1.

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=8433

 

 

 

stela of Sebekkhu

The Sebek-khu Stele, which records the earliest known Egyptian military campaign in Retjenu, including Sekmem (s-k-m-m, thought to be Shechem).

Hyspaosines - https://www.flickr.com/photos/12371736@N00/33034790715/ WIKI

Manchester Museum, stela of Sebekkhu

 

 

 

 

Relief of Pepi II

Relief of Pepi II from the temple of Menes and Isis in Qift, part of the museum's Egyptological collection

William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) - William Matthew Flinders Petrie: Koptos. London 1986.

Relief of Pepi II from the temple of Min at Coptos; Manchester Museum

PUBLIC DOMAIN

 

 

 

Mummified falcon

Mummified falcon on display at the museum

M.O. Stevens pic/wikipedia/public domain

w:Prewitt-Allen Archaeological Museum at w:Corban College in Salem, Oregon, USA. Falcon mummy.

 

 

 

Lady Shep-en-hor

The Lady  Shep-en hor , the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University.

Osama Shukir wikipedia/public domain

This sycamore coffin contains a mummified body of an Egyptian woman. The hieroglyphic inscriptions on the coffin state that the deceased woman's name is Shepnehor (or Shep-en-hor) and died around 600 BCE. From the necropolis of the Western Thebes, Southern Egypt. The Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

 

 

 

King Taharqa

Portrait of Nubian King Taharqa, Nubian Museum.

Bruce Allardice - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gballardice/49618628188/

El-Kurru, King Taharqa. XXV Dynasty. Nubian Museum, Aswan

 

 

 

Family Group of Four.

Family Group of Four.

This statue is carved in very high relief. It depicts two males and two female figures with their hands at their sides. There may be traces of inscriptions on their dresses. The corner of the base is broken off.

Walters Art Museum

public domain/wiki

 

 

 

 

 

SERPENT MUMMY

 

SERPENT MUMMY 

The mummified remains of a large serpent, the bandages are loose and discoloured. The mummy lies in a coiled position.
Several important deities were represented by the serpent, notably the cobra goddess of the Delta, Wadjet, on the Uraeus, Meretseger, of the Theban Necropolis and Apophis.

late period/ptolemaic

From the private collection of Joseph Mayer, given to the museum in 1867. See for more information object M13519, Object's History.

Inventory number M13637

LIVERPOOL MUSEUM

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=4414

HUMAN MUMMY

HUMAN MUMMY

The mummy is completely enveloped in cloth on which a pattern of pearls has been sewn in the form of lozanges. Over the head a relatively flat mask has been placed on which a face, a wig and a part of a necklace have been painted. The chest is covered by a large pectoral with clasps in the form of a falcon's head. The lower part of the body is adorned by the image of a winged <A HREF="God">goddess</A> which represents Nephthys. The motif of the fourth scene is composed of a djed-pillar which is adored by Isis and Nephthys and the four Sons of Horus. The feet are concealed in a sheath on which the god Anubis, perched on his shrine, has been drawn. The bottom presents two simple soles.

GOVERNORATE OF SOHAG: ABYDOS 

 GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD

 

Inventory number E.3974

KMKG - MRAH

M.-P. Vanlathem, Oudegyptische lijkkisten en mummies - Cercueils et momies de l'Égypte ancienne, Bruxelles 1983, 24-25

F. Lefebvre et B. Van Rinsveld, L'Égypte. Des Pharaons aux Coptes, Bruxelles 1990, 243, 250

M. Raven, Mummies onder het mes, Amsterdam 1993, 112

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=601

 

 

 

 

Templo de Edfú

 Templo de Edfú

1890

Model Boat with Crew Sailing Upstream

Model Boat with Crew Sailing Upstream

The traditional model of a boat depicts the crew sailing upstream.

The boat is equipped with a mast, spars, or poles, and a well-preserved linen sail, and rigging and an oar.

The models of the 15 members of the crew vary in posture, except for their feet, which are separately modeled in stucco.

They are painted dark red, emphasizing the natural color of their skin. They wear heavy short black wigs.

The cabin, open at the front and back, is decorated with two bull hide shields hanging on either side.

THEBES: WEST BANK: DEIR EL-BAHARI

MIDDLE KINGDOM: 11TH DYNASTY

Inventory number JE 46720

EGYPTIAN MUSEUM

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=15634

 

 

 

Model of Household Activities

Model of Household Activities

This model depicts, in miniature, 12 people carrying out various household activities. They are painted in red, black, and white.

A man and two women are busy grinding grain. Two men are shown butchering a calf. A seated foreman watches two other women preparing dough and baking bread.

UPPER EGYPT: GOVERNORATE OF GIZA (INCLUDING MEMPHIS): SAQQARA NECROPOLIS

Inventory number JE 45497

EGYPTIAN MUSEUM

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=15575

 

 

 

BIRD MUMMY

Present location MUSÉE ROYAL DE MARIEMONT [07/009] MARIEMONT

Inventory number Ac.2004/2

Dating PTOLEMAIC PERIOD; ROMAN PERIOD

Archaeological Site UNKNOWN

Category BIRD MUMMY

Material FLAX; UNSPECIFIED

Bibliography

Cl. DERRIKS et L. DELVAUX, Antiquités égyptiennes au Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, 2009, p. 402.

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=16158

 

 

 

 

Statuette of a concubine

Statuette of a concubine

Small figure representing a standing woman, naked, with a tripartite coiffure, painted necklaces coiled several times around her neck, bracelets, and red ribbons crossing in front of her body and behind her back. Around her hips, under the navel, is painted a belt consisting of a red ribbon decorated with white shells. There are traces of tattoos on her legs. The arms, fashioned separately, are applied to the bust by means of pegs.

Present location MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [05/027] FLORENCE

Inventory number 6338

Dating MIDDLE KINGDOM

Archaeological Site SHEIKH `ABD EL-QURNA

Category FIGURINE/STATUETTE

Material WOOD

Technique SCULPTURED

Height 22.8 cm

Bibliography

E. Schiaparelli, Museo Archeologico di Firenze-Antichità Egizie, Roma, 1887, pgg. 472-473, n.1743 .

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=9954

 

 

 

 

chalice with a tapering body and foot

A chalice with a tapering body and foot, representing a half-closed lotus flower whose petals are shown in slight relief on the body. It has a square mouth with a rim with a semicircular section, rarely found among Egyptian vases.
Present location MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [05/027] FLORENCE
Inventory number 3254
Dating 19TH DYNASTY (not before); NEW KINGDOM; 20TH DYNASTY (not after)
Archaeological Site UNSPECIFIED
Category CHALICE
Material FAIENCE
Technique FAYENCE; GLAZED
Height 14 cm
Width 8 cm
Bibliography

I. Rosellini, I monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia, Monumenti Civili, Pisa, 1834, pg. 344, tav. LVI, n. 110.
Documenti inediti per servire alla storia dei musei d'Italia, Firenze-Roma, 1880, pg. 357, n. 626.
M.C. Guidotti, Vasi dall'Epoca Protodinastica al Nuovo Regno, Roma, 1991, pg. 262, n. 432.
AA.VV., Nefertari. Luce d'Egitto, Roma, 1995, pg. 200, n. 61.
AA.VV., Le vie del vetro. Egitto e Sudan, Pisa, 1988, pgg. 91-92, n. 5.

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=9602

 

 

 

 

Mammisi

Mammisi
Dendera

 

 

Bust of a sitting female statue with a tripartite wig

Bust of a sitting female statue with a tripartite wig. Two tresses hang down at the sides of the head. On the forehead is a diadem of lotus petals surmounted by a lotus flower. Above the clinging dress is a decorated usekh collar. The mouth smiles slightly.
Present location MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [05/027] FLORENCE
Inventory number 6309
Dating NEW KINGDOM
Archaeological Site GOVERNORATE OF LUXOR ?
Category STATUE
Material SANDSTONE
Technique HEWN; PAINTED
Height 58 cm
Bibliography

E. Schiaparelli, Museo Archeologico di Firenze-Antichità Egizie, Roma, 1887, pg. 467, n. 1729..

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=9947

 

 

Estatua real

Estatua real

granito gris

p. ptolemáico

332- 30 aC

Alejandría (Al-Iskendariya)

El rey aparece investido de la dignidad faraónica., la cabeza con el nemes (tocado real) y la serpiente reaus, el faldellín corto, la cola de animal y el signo de la vida en sus manos.

Se desconoce a quién perteneció esta estatua al carecer de inscripciones, pero se data en época ptolemáica ya que tiene un cierto aiere infantil, pudiendo pertenecer a alguno de los soberanos de este periodo que subiero al trono siendo niños.

Museo arqueológico Nacional.

Madrid.

Royal Statue

Grey diorite

Period ptolemaic

332-30 aC

Alexandria (Al-Iskendariya)

 

 

 

Group of fighters

Group of fighters

This group statue in limestone, which was purchased in the art trade in 1938, represents two fighters on a large rounded socle. The bodies of the two figures are leaning towards the ground so that their shoulders are touching. The piece resembles the figurines which date from 1st Intermediate Period and from the Middle Kingdom.

limestone

MIDDLE KINGDOM

Inventory number E.7347

KMKG - MRAH

B. Hornemann, Types of Ancient Egyptian Statuary, Munksgaard 1966, IV 1138

W. Decker et M. Herb, Bildatlas zum Sport im Alten Ägypten, Leyde 1994, I 558-559 L. 33

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=1259

 

 

 

Figurine of a dignitary

Figurine of a dignitary

This wooden figurine, which comes from the excavations of El-Harage in 1914, represents a man standing on a rectangular socle. Dressed in a long kilt forming three folds at the front, he leans on a staff which he holds in the left hand. The right hand, which is alongside the body, held an attribute which has disappeared. The person is particularly distinguished by a shaven head, large eyes, thick lips and large ears. The piece, which dates from the Middle Kingdom, bears many traces of stucco and of the colour black.

BENI SUEIF: EL-HARAGA

Inventory number E.5687

KMKG - MRAH

E. Engelbach et B. Gunn, Harageh, Londres 1923, pl. I et XVIII

J. Vandier, Manuel d'archéologie égyptienne, Paris 1958, III 229, 255, 267 et pl. LXXVI 5

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=838

 

 

 

female figurine

A small female figurine made from terracotta. She wears a short wig, the arms are held straight at the sides of the body. There are tattoo markings, possibly indicating the use of the object as a fertility figure.

ESNA

MIDDLE KINGDOM >2ND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD <

From the excavations of Professor J. Garstang in Egypt, following a contribution made by the Committee to help fund the work in Egypt.

Inventory number 16.11.06.24

LIVERPOOL MUSEUM

Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley, "Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in the Liverpool Museum", 1995, 63; pl. 99.

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=3063

 

 

 

Naophorous statuette of Nefer-ib-Re

Naophorous statuette of Nefer-ib-Re

Nefer-ib-Re, who is dressed in a short pleated kilt, is kneeling and leaning against a back pillar. He is holding a naos with a djed-pillar in front of him. The finely modelled face is framed by bag-wig.

LATE PERIOD: 27TH DYNASTY

Inventory number 28

KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM

Bergmann, E. von, Inschriftliche Denkmäler, in: Recueil de Travaux rélatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes (RecTrav) 9 (1887) 52: Nr. 30.

Reiser-Haslauer, E., Die Kanopen, Teil I. Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum (CAA) Wien 2 (1989), 41.

Rogge, E., Statuen der Spätzeit (750-300 v. Chr.). Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum (CAA) Wien 9 (1992), 92-96.

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=4823

 

 

 

 

Meroe, the City of the Ethiopians: Being an Account of a First Season's Excavations on the Site, 1909-1910

Meroe, the City of the Ethiopians: Being an Account of a First Season's Excavations on the Site, 1909-1910 Hardcover – 28 September 2009

by John Garstang

REPRINT of 1911 edition. Folio. Book viii, 94 p. LXXIV pl. (incl. front., plans, partly fold.) Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1911. Several distinct cemeteries lie east of the ancient city of Meroe, located in the north of the modern state of Sudan. The distribution of burials and differences in grave styles, ranging from simple pit burials to pyramid capped tombs, as well as the variety of artifacts accompanying the burials, represent complex patterns from which chronological and socioeconomic inferences can be derived.Four cemeteries were partially excavated in 1910 by john Garstang of the Institute of Arachaeology. The account by Prof. Garstang here given of his work on the site during the winter of 1909-10 is good and clear, and abundantly illustrated by plans and admirable photographs by Herr Schilephack. Color illustrations are reproduced in color. The most valuable section of the work is a treatment of the Meroltic inscriptions discovered by Griffith, in which the progress he is making in the decipherment of the lost tongue is evident.

 

 

 

Cartuchos de Arakamani

Cartuchos de Arakamani en un fragmento de piedra del Este de Meroe.

James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) - The monuments of Sudanese Nubia, report of the work of the Egyptian Expedition, Season of 1906-1907 (1908), vol 2, available not-in-copyright here, p. 14.

Sandstone offering tablet with the cartouches of the Meroitic king Khnemibre Arqamaniqo (also Ergamenes I), found in a chapel in east Meroe.

 

 

 

Two Harpers’ Songs

Two Harpers’ Songs

The Stela of Nebankh

http://egypt-grammar.rutgers.edu/TextPDF/harpersongs.pdf

 

 

 

A partial description of the hieroglyphic text at Medinet Habu

A partial description of the hieroglyphic text at Medinet Habu on the right tower of Second Pylon (left) and an illustration of the prisoners depicted at the base of the Fortified East Gate (right), were first provided by Jean-François Champollion following his 1828–29 travels to Egypt and published posthumously.[14] Although Champollion did not label them, decades later the hieroglyphs labeled 4 to 8 (left) were translated as Peleset, Tjeker, Shekelesh, Denyen and Weshesh, and the hieroglyphs next to prisoners 3 and 4 (second row, right), translated as Tjeker and Sherden.[15]

w:Jean-François Champollion - Monuments de l'Egypte et de la Nubie: notices descriptives conformes aux manuscrits autographes rédigés sur les lieux

Champollion's description of the peoples named on the Second Pylon at Medinet Habu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples...

 

 

 

Statue of a Man and Latus The Sacred Fish.

Statue of a Man and Latus The Sacred Fish.

This statue shows a man sitting in a high-backed chair with his left leg forward in a position similar to those of seated gods in low-reliefs. He is wearing the Nemes headdress and the Shendyt kilt, and holds a long snake in both hands.

On a high base to the right, the fins and the tail remain of what was once Latus, the sacred fish. A column of hieroglyphics is inscribed between these two figures the man and the fish.

THEBES: WEST BANK: MEDINET HABU (EXCEPT TEMPLE OF RAMESSES III)

25TH DYNASTY AND CONTEMPORARIES

Inventory number CG 39273

EGYPTIAN MUSEUM

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=15418