sábado, 31 de enero de 2015
Luxor
Painted wood offering bearers
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The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC Hardcover
The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC Hardcover
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In 1915, a team of American archaeologists in Bersha, Egypt, blasted through solid rock to reach a tomb later to be designated as "10A." Inside this tomb they found a mummy, an exquisitely-painted coffin and arguably the largest assemblage of burial artifacts ever discovered from the Middle Kingdom. Because of the delicate power balance between the king and local bureaucrats, the Middle Kingdom (the least known of the three ancient Egyptian kingdoms) was a time of unprecedented splendor, as regional potentates were lavished with rewards and buried in a style normally reserved for royalty. Tomb 10A was prepared for one such potentate, Governor Djehutynakht, and its treasures--which survived World War I, a ship's fire and nearly a century of basement storage--include jewelry, walking sticks, a phenomenally large collection of model boats, architectural miniatures and even the severed (but nicely painted) head of Djehutynakht himself. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Secrets of Tomb 10A tells the story and introduces the full breadth and meaning of these treasures for the first time. With more than 160 illustrations, it discusses the history, political intrigue and development of fine works of art for both royalty and commoners at a time characterized by widespread prosperity and intense artistic flourishing.
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In 1915, a team of American archaeologists in Bersha, Egypt, blasted through solid rock to reach a tomb later to be designated as "10A." Inside this tomb they found a mummy, an exquisitely-painted coffin and arguably the largest assemblage of burial artifacts ever discovered from the Middle Kingdom. Because of the delicate power balance between the king and local bureaucrats, the Middle Kingdom (the least known of the three ancient Egyptian kingdoms) was a time of unprecedented splendor, as regional potentates were lavished with rewards and buried in a style normally reserved for royalty. Tomb 10A was prepared for one such potentate, Governor Djehutynakht, and its treasures--which survived World War I, a ship's fire and nearly a century of basement storage--include jewelry, walking sticks, a phenomenally large collection of model boats, architectural miniatures and even the severed (but nicely painted) head of Djehutynakht himself. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Secrets of Tomb 10A tells the story and introduces the full breadth and meaning of these treasures for the first time. With more than 160 illustrations, it discusses the history, political intrigue and development of fine works of art for both royalty and commoners at a time characterized by widespread prosperity and intense artistic flourishing.
Estatua que representa a Isis-Perséfone
Estatua que representa a Isis-Perséfone con un sistro, hallada en el templo de los dioses egipcios de Gortina y conservada en el Museo Arqueológico de Heraclión. 180 - 190 d. C.
illustration from A Thousand Miles up the Nile
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Original source: Edwards, Amelia B. "A Thousand Miles up the Nile." George Routledge and Sons, Limited: London, 1890. p 388.
Plain bone hairpin
Plain bone hairpin. Common in rich predynastic tombs, but not in the Pharaonic Periods, the hairpin again became an item of costume in the Roman Period. This late Roman example comes from the only city founded in Egypt by the Romans, Antinoopolis in Middle Egypt, created by the emperor Hadrian at the site where his lover Antinous drowned in AD 130. In the Byzantine period the city was capital of the province of Upper Egypt, and therefore at the forefront of changes in material culture.
Present location | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN |
Inventory number | 1914:217 |
Dating | ROMAN PERIOD |
Archaeological Site | EL-SHEIKH `ABADA/ANTINOOPOLIS |
Category | HAIRPIN |
Material | BONE |
viernes, 30 de enero de 2015
Sesostris III boats found near his Pyramid in Dahshur, 1895
Jacques de morgan - fouilles à Dahchour (1895)
Relief fragment possibly from the tomb of Mereri
Relief fragment possibly from the tomb of Mereri
Period: Old Kingdom–First Intermediate Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 7–10 (?)
Date: ca. 2100–2090 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Dendera (Dandara; Tentyra), Tomb of Mereri, Behind Temple of Hathor
Medium: Stone
Credit Line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898
Accession Number: 98.4.76.30
Met Museum
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Limestone male figure in Egyptian dress
Limestone male figure in Egyptian dress
Period: Archaic
Date: mid-6th century B.C.
Culture: Cypriot
Medium: Limestone
Dimensions: Overall: 23 1/4 x 9 x 5 3/8 in. (59 x 22.9 x 13.7 cm)
Classification: Stone Sculpture
Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Accession Number: 74.51.2603
Met Museum
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The figure wears the double crown of Egypt, a three-row pectoral, a baldric perhaps for a quiver, bracelets, and a kilt that is embellished with winged uraei, a head of the Egyptian god Bes or of the Gorgon Medusa, and an eye.
The figure wears the double crown of Egypt, a three-row pectoral, a baldric perhaps for a quiver, bracelets, and a kilt that is embellished with winged uraei, a head of the Egyptian god Bes or of the Gorgon Medusa, and an eye.
Terracotta statuette of a draped woman
Terracotta statuette of a draped woman
Period: Hellenistic
Date: early 3rd century B.C.
Culture: Greek, Attic
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: H. 5 15/16 in. (15.1 cm)
Classification: Terracottas
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906
Accession Number: 06.1081
et Museum
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Fragment de la décoration d'une tombe
Sully ; 1er étage ; Antiquités égyptiennes ; Salle 24
Louvre
public domain
Yuny and His Wife Renenutet
Yuny and His Wife Renenutet
Period: New Kingdom, Ramesside
Dynasty: Dynasty 19
Reign: reign of Seti I
Date: ca. 1294–1279 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Middle Egypt, Asyut (Assiut, Siut; Lykopolis), Tomb of Amenhotep, Necropolis Cliff tomb, Medjdeni, Khashaba 1913
Medium: Limestone, paint
Dimensions: H. 84.5 cm (33 1/4 in); w. 54.5 cm (21 7/16 in); d. 73 cm (28 3/4 in)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1915
Accession Number: 15.2.1
Met Museum
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Funerary Broad-Collar of Wah
Funerary Broad-Collar of Wah
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 12
Reign: reign of Amenemhat I, early
Date: ca. 1981–1975 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Southern Asasif, Tomb of Wah (MMA 1102), Mummy, in wrappings on chest, MMA 1920
Medium: Faience, linen thread
Dimensions: H. 34.5 cm (13 9/16 in.); W. 39 cm (15 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1940
Accession Number: 40.3.2
Met museum
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Broad Collar
Broad Collar
Period: New Kingdom, Amarna Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Reign: reign of Akhenaten
Date: ca. 1353–1336 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt
Medium: Faience
Dimensions: Diam. 31.5 cm (12 3/8 in) Terminals: L. 8.7 cm (3 7/16 in.); W. 2.5 cm (1 in.); Th. 0.6 cm (1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1940
Accession Number: 40.2.5
Met useum
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This necklace of faience beads, called a broad collar, is a durable version of the elaborate perishable floral collars worn by banquet guests (see 09.184.216). The beads in this example imitate a row of cornflowers (center), three rows of dates (middle), and a row of lotus petals (outside). These rows are joined by strands of small ring beads. The rows end in rectangular terminals adorned with blue lotus blossoms, buds, and petals interspersed with poppy petals and persea fruit. The stringing is modern.
This necklace of faience beads, called a broad collar, is a durable version of the elaborate perishable floral collars worn by banquet guests (see 09.184.216). The beads in this example imitate a row of cornflowers (center), three rows of dates (middle), and a row of lotus petals (outside). These rows are joined by strands of small ring beads. The rows end in rectangular terminals adorned with blue lotus blossoms, buds, and petals interspersed with poppy petals and persea fruit. The stringing is modern.
Faucher-Gudin
source: gutemberg
The Lion of Amphipolis
Cylindrical polychrome vessel with 'Palace Scene'
Head of Ramesses VI
Head of Ramesses VI, black granite. Valley of the Kings, 20th Dynasty. According to the accompanying British Museum tag, "this fragment is the upper lid of the royal sarcophagus from the tomb of Ramesses VI in the Valley of the Kings." Registration No. EA 140
Regiones productoras de metales utilizados en Mesopotamia
Estatua del superintendente Ebih II
Himno a Iddin-Dagan,
Stucco Masks from the Ptolemaic Period
They were made by casting the stucco in molds. Coal was used to color the hair black, while gold was used to paint jewelry such as earrings, necklaces and head bindings.
There are numerous examples in which the mask is completely painted with gold. It is obvious that these masks have been refurbished.
BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA ANTIQUETIES MUSEUM [01/027]
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Ivory magic knife
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Ivory magical knives served to protect women at the moment of childbirth; their decoration was restricted to the depiction of a series of demons who would magically turn their aggressive instincts against those who would do evil to the mother and child. Both sides of this piece of ivory are decorated in a similar fashion with various demons and deities: a serpent, a crocodile, a brazier, the god Aha-the fighter-, a hippopotamus, a Seth animal, another hippo, a knife, the frog-goddess Heqet and a winged griffin.
MIDDLE KINGDOM
KMKG - MRAH
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Sumerian marble mace
martes, 27 de enero de 2015
tomb de Roy
Karnak
ceiling palace Malqata
Ceiling painting from the palace of Amenhotep III
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Reign: reign of Amenhotep III
Date: ca. 1390–1353 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Malqata, Palace of Amenhotep III, Antechamber to King's bedroom, MMA 1910–1911
Medium: Dried Mud, mud plaster, paint Gesso
Dimensions: h. 140 cm (55 1/8 in); w. 140 cm (55 1/8 in)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1911
Accession Number: 11.215.451
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obelisk of Shalmaneser III
relief at Edfu depicting the pharaoh in his sacred barque.
lunes, 26 de enero de 2015
viernes, 23 de enero de 2015
Torso of a statue of a kneeling woman,
The Abusir Papyri
Several kings of the Fifth Dynasty selected for their pyramid complex an area of desert northwest of modern Abusir village. In the late nineteenth century, several museums acquired groups of papyrus fragments from the business papers of one cult, that for king Neferirkare Kakai. Together this remains the largest Old Kingdom (about 2686-2181 BC) papyrus find. In the late twentieth century excavations by the Czechoslovak expedition on the site, more papyri were found from two other cult complexes, (1) for king Neferefre (more recently read Raneferef), and (2) for the king's mother Khentkaus.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/abughurab/abusir.html
Abusir Papyri �University College Sheet B� UC 32366
Abusir Papyri �University College Sheet B� UC 32366
Published: de Cenival and Posener-Krieger 1968: pl.8; commentary in Posener-Krieger 1976: 121-122
Contents:
Series of fragments from middle or lower part of a papyrus roll, gridded, with name-list probably from a roster table of duty for staff on rotating service
From the better preserved parallels such as British Museum 10735.7, Louver E25279 and Egyptian Museum Cairo 602, it is clear that each horizontal line corresponds to one day, and each group of vertical columns to a particular duty in the temple, for example �men to make offerings to statues on festival day�, �men to bring meat and flower garlands from the sun-temple Setibra�. The fragments show that the same individual repeated this task across several days:
Fragment A Ptahhotep
Fragment A Ptahhotep
Fragment B AaFragment C Khuenkhnum, Djedikakai, SenebFragment D Ipi, Izy, end of note of task in vertical column �his [...] in/from the temple�Fragment E Merra with note in red �the elder�, Seneb, Djedi, NesqedFragment F Nefer, Neferheteput, Nedjemib, KaFragment G [..]-heteput (?), Neferiretkakai, Kakaihetepet, Kair[su]
Note that, on the eighth day on fragment D, the official Izy did not complete his task, as the recording bureaucrat marked in place of his name a red stroke.
Sarcophagus in the burial chamber of the mastaba of Ptah-shepses
Teti
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