vignettes from the Book of the Dead of Neferrenpet

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Cartonnage mummy-mask of Satdjehuty

Museum number

EA29770

Description

Detail: Other

COMPASS Image Caption: Detail of inscription

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Cartonnage mummy-mask of Satdjehuty: on this splendid female mask, gold leaf not only covers the woman's face, but also her huge collar necklace and the vulture-headdress that embrace the front and sides of her voluminous, lapis lazuli-colored wig. The wings are examples of protective symbolism that, like the feather patterns on many anthropoid coffins of the Seventeenth and early Eighteenth Dynasties, evokes the guardianship of Isis and other deities. This woman's name, once written at the bottom of each column of hieroglyphs, has been lost. There are two columns of hieroglyphic text on the chest

Fragment of a relief with two prisoners

Fragment of a relief with two prisoners

Sandstone fragment with representations in sunk relief, in two registers. The upper register shows only the knees and feet of two kneeling figures facing right. The lower register shows a negro captive facing right with arms bent upwards and backwards and tied together. Behind him part of the face of an Asian with a pointed beard has been preserved. The style of the representations is typical for the Amarna Period.

Present location ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM [06/002] AMSTERDAM

Inventory number APM 8753

Dating AMENHOTEP IV/AMENOPHIS IV/NEFERKHEPERURE/AKHENATEN

Archaeological Site THEBES: EAST BANK ?

Category RELIEF

Material SANDSTONE

Technique LOW RELIEF

Height 22.5 cm

Width 20 cm

Depth 5 cm

Bibliography•R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer (ed.), Egypte, eender en anders (tentoonstellingscatalogus APM), 1984, 23 (nr. 6)

•F.J.E. Boddens Hosang, Two Amarna collections in the Netherlands, OMRO 72 (1992), 15-53: 25, 46/pl. 8

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Fragment of the sarcophagus lid of Shepenbastet

 

Fragment of the sarcophagus lid of Shepenbastet

The object is a fragment of the vaulted lid of a rectangular outer sarcophagus of the 'corner post' type (qeres), consisting of four separate boards. The representations are painted in two registers.

In the upper register, the owner of the coffin adores five goddesses, personifying the first five hours of the day. The textcolumn to the sixth goddess is preserved but not her image. All wear long dresses with breast straps, long wigs with fillets, collars, armlets, bracelets and anklets. They are crowned with sun disks, and face right, raising both hands. Between them are textcolumns. Shepenbastet faces left in front of the others, raising one hand. She wears the same dress and jewellery, but has a short wig without adornment. Above her head is a horizontal line of text.

The lower register shows alternatingly three cheker-signs and Anubis-jackals, reclining on shrines, each holding a flail and an unidentified object.

The figures are somewhat carelessly filled in with colour. A few traces of red grid lines are visible.

Present location ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM [06/002] AMSTERDAM

Inventory number APM 8898

Dating 26TH DYNASTY (not after); 25TH DYNASTY AND CONTEMPORARIES (not before)

Archaeological Site THEBES: WEST BANK ?

Category COFFIN/SARCOPHAGUS LID

Material WOOD; PLASTER

Technique PAINTED ON STUCCO

Height 97.8 cm

Width 53 cm

Depth 3.2 cm

Translation

(1) The Osiris Shepenbastet, justified,

(2) "The Rising One", the First Hour; the Osiris Shepenbastet, borne by Semes, justified.

(3) "The Leading One", the Second Hour; the Osiris Shepenbastet jus, borne by Semes, justified.

(4) "The Protection of her Lord", the Third Hour; the Osiris Shepenbastet jus, borne by Semes, justified.

(5) "The Secret One", the Fourth Hour; the Osiris Shepenbastet jus, borne by Semes, justified.

(6) "The Flaming One", the Fifth Hour; the Osiris Shepenbastet, borne by Semes, justified.

(7) "The Highest Height", the Sixth Hour; the Osiris Shepenbastet, borne by Se[mes, justified].

Bibliography•R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Glas voor het hiernamaals, MVAPM 33 (juni 1985), 5-9: 6/fig. 6

•W.M. van Haarlem, R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Gids voor de afdeling Egypte, Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, 1986, 43, 44/fig. 23

•W.M. van Haarlem, CAA Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, Fasc. IV, 1997, 50-52

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Figure from a mummy-bead net: textcolumn with Anubis

Figure from a mummy-bead net: textcolumn with Anubis

The object is a figure that was originally incorporated in a large bead net, consisting of cylindrical beads with (at least) ten figures made of smaller beads. This is a vertical column of text, topped with a reclining Anubis, facing left in concordance with the direction of the hieroglyphs. Some cylindrical beads, part of the bead net, are still attached to the column.

Present location ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM [06/002] AMSTERDAM

Inventory number APM 8523

Dating PTOLEMAIC PERIOD (not after); LATE PERIOD (not before)

Archaeological Site UNKNOWN

Category BEAD NET

Material FAIENCE

Technique FAYENCE; WOVEN

Translation

A boon, which the king gives to Osiris, the great god, lord of the sky, that he may give a beautiful funeral in the necropolis.

Bibliography•M.H. Groothand, Drie laat-Egyptische aanwinsten van het Allard Pierson Museum, MVAPM 1 (december 1970), 2-7: 3-4/fig. [1]

•H.E. Frenkel, De Vereniging van Vrienden en de collecties van het Museum, MVAPM 31 (oktober 1984), 15/fig. 1

•W.M. van Haarlem, R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Gids voor de afdeling Egypte, Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, 1986, 85

•R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Egypte, geschenk van de Nijl, 1992, 53, 55

•G. Jurriaans-Helle, Blijken van vriendschap, MVAPM 61 (december 1994), bijlage (nr. 7)

•W.M. van Haarlem, CAA Allard Pierson Museum, Fasc. IV, 1997, 38-41

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Present location RIJKSMUSEUM VAN OUDHEDEN [06/001] LEIDEN

Inventory number AH 113

Dating 12TH DYNASTY

Archaeological Site UNKNOWN

Category STATUE

Material WOOD; FAIENCE; BRONZE

Technique SCULPTURED; FAYENCE; FULL CAST

Height 48 cm

Width 9.5 cm

Depth 21 cm

Bibliography•Boeser, P. A. A., Beschrijving van de Egyptische Verzameling III, Den Haag 1910, 43, pl. XV.

•Schneider, H. D. en M. J. Raven, De Egyptische Oudheid, Den Haag 1981, nr. 41.

•Schneider, H. D., Egyptisch Kunsthandwerk, Amsterdam 1995, 32-34, nr. 9.

•Schneider, H. D., De ontdekking van de Egyptische Kunst, Den Haag 1998, afb. 82.

•Schulz, R. en M. Seidel, Egypt: the world of the pharaohs, Keulen 1998, 260, fig. 220.

•Bourriau, J., An early Twelfth dynasty sculpture, in: E. Goring, N. Reeves en J. Ruffle (ed.), Chief of seers: Egyptian studies in memory of Cyril Aldred, Londen 1997, 52, afb. 2.

•Wildung, D., Ägypten 2000 v. Chr.: die Geburt des Individuums, München 2000, nr. 49.

•Aldred, C., Middle kingdom art in ancient Egypt 2300-1590 B.C., Londen 1950, 41-42, nr. 29, pl. 29.

•Porter, B, Moss, R. L. B. en J. Malek (ed.), Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings, VIII: Objects of Provenance not known, Part 1, Oxford 1999, nr. 801-462-000.

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"Speculations on the Role of Animal Cults in the Economy of Ancient Egypt."

"Speculations on the Role of Animal Cults in the Economy of Ancient Egypt." In M. Massiera, B. Mathieu, and Fr. Rouffet (eds.) Apprivoiser le Sauvage/Taming the Wild (CENiM 11). Montpellier: University Paul Valéry Montpellier, 211-228.

https://www.academia.edu/22242570/2015._Speculations_on_the_Role_of_Animal_Cults_in_the_Economy_of_Ancient_Egypt._In_M._Massiera_B._Mathieu_and_Fr._Rouffet_eds._Apprivoiser_le_Sauvage_Taming_the_Wild_CENiM_11_._Montpellier_University_Paul_Val%C3%A9ry_Montpellier_211-228