Tile from marsh scene

Period:

New Kingdom, Amarna Period

Dynasty:

Dynasty 18

Reign:

reign of Akhenaten

Date:

ca. 1353–1336 B.C.

Geography:

From Egypt, Middle Egypt, Amarna (Akhetaten), Royal Palace of Akhenaten, Petrie excavations, 1891–92

Medium:

Polychrome faience

Dimensions:

H. 5 × W. 2.8 cm (1 15/16 × 1 1/8 in.)

Credit Line:

Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926

Accession Number:

26.7.937

 

 

 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/571925

Tile with persea fruit and leaves

Tile with persea fruit and leaves

Period: New Kingdom, Amarna Period

Dynasty: Dynasty 18

Reign: reign of Akhenaten

Date: ca. 1353–1336 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Middle Egypt, Amarna (Akhetaten), Royal Palace of Akhenaten, Petrie excavations, 1891–92

Medium: Polychrome faience

Dimensions: H. 6.5 × W. 5.5 cm (2 9/16 × 2 3/16 in.)

Credit Line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926

Accession Number: 26.7.942

Description

Among the faience figural tiles found in the area of the Great Palace, the ceremonial palace, was this one depicting yellow persea fruit and its leaves. Many other tiles are known depicting birds, flowers, and fish, among other subjects. The clear fine colors of the plants created in glaze would have mimicked plentiful gardens and marshes, frequent themes also in relief and wall paintings (see 30.4.136) created for royal surroundings.

Elaborate decoration of columns and relief with inlaid materials is well-attested from Amarna, and indeed has a long tradition in Egypt. Faience tiles like this one, with an originally semi-round contour, may have been inlaid into stone wall reliefs. There are Amarna architectural reliefs that could accept the tiles, but no tiles have actually been found still attached.

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/26.7.942/

picturing a young female dancing and playing flute.

Decorative element on the front panel of a so-called lit-clos picturing a young female dancing and playing flute. Painting on mouna coating; located in the first room of the house SE VIII.

Photo: C. Gobeil.

 http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935413.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935413-e-32?mediaType=Article

MM+14071

MM 14071 :: Artist's sketch, Ostracon

Object description

Ostracon, evenly rectangular. On one side small flint inclusion, on this side a sketch in red and black. It shows a king and a servant. The king is in the middle of the sketch, outlined in black and with the face coloured red. He is wearing a short wig and a uraeus and headband. He is wearing a shirt which is covering the upper part of his upper body and which is tied around his waist. It has short sleeves and looks spotted, possibly a leopard skin? The king is also wearing a short kilt, decorated with sun discs and uraeus. He is wearing bracelets. Above the left arm are traces of an inscription. The second man is also facing right. He is dressed in a wide, pleated garment and a black wig. He is carrying over his shoulder a bow and a sword or an axe. He is shorter than the king.

http://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/object/3006079

Bruyère’s notebook for the year 1928

Page 8b of

Bruyère’s notebook for the year 1928 showing the content of the inviolate tomb of Sennefer discovered in 1928, hand-drawn by Bruyère.

Archives department of the French Institute of Archaeology in Cairo. Photo: © IFAO, B. Bruyère

Catalogue des ostraca figurés de Deir el Médineh.

Catalogue des ostraca figurés de Deir el Médineh. Fasc.1: Nos 2001 à 2255. Fasc.2: Nos 2256 à 2722. Fasc. 3. Etude générale et supplément: 2723-2733. Fasc.4: Nos 2734 à 3053 (complete set)

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IFAO Excavations at Deir el-Medina

IFAO Excavations at Deir el-Medina