A glazed terracotta

A glazed terracotta figure from the Royal Baths at Meroe,in the shape of the head and forepaws of a lion, probably the lion-god Apedemak. The lion wears a crown and crouches on a crescent moon. Crescent moons and lions' heads were common Meroitic decorative motifs and are normally found together on vessels.

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fragmen excavations Mallowan

Mallowan's chief task was to supervise the digging of a deep pit that was expected to provide information about the extent and origins of the prehistoric settlement of Nineveh. These periods were largely uncharted territory. As Agatha described it: 'It was endlessly interesting. Although it was so old - it was new!'

A deep sounding was dug from the highest point of the mound at Kuyunjik on 15 October 1931. Originally a square measuring 12 by 12 metres, the pit became smaller the further down it went. Steps were dug into the sides, with workmen posted on them to pass the soil up out of the pit. After eleven weeks the pit went 25 metres down and three-quarters of the massive pit proved to be prehistoric.
Their finds resulted in the first attempt to establish a chronological scheme for prehistoric Assyria. Mallowan distinguished five levels covering 3,500 years, which he named Ninevite 1 to 5, from top to bottom. This fragment dates to Ninevite 5 (about 2900-2550 BC), one of the levels which Max found particularly interesting. It is characterized by vessels on a foot, bowls painted with animal and other patterns (as here), or pottery made of fine grey ware adorned with incised and indented patterns.

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Height: 9.400 cm
Excavated by Max Mallowan
ME 1932-12-12,317?

Detail of a Griffin, Tomb of Khety

Detail of a Griffin, Tomb of Khety

Artist: Nina de Garis Davies (1881–1965) or

Artist: Norman de Garis Davies (1865–1941)

Period: Middle Kingdom

Dynasty: Dynasty 11

Date: ca. 2140–1991 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Middle Egypt, Beni Hasan, Tomb of Kheti (Tomb 17), MMA graphic expedition 1931

Medium: Tempera on paper

Dimensions: facsimile: h. 26.5 cm (10 7/16 in); w. 45.3 cm (17 13/16 in) 1:1 scale framed: h. 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in); w. 36.2 cm (14 1/4 in)

 

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predinastico

Present location	MUSÉE ROYAL DE MARIEMONT [07/009] MARIEMONT
Inventory number	Ac.98/88
Dating	PREDYNASTIC PERIOD
Archaeological Site	UNKNOWN
Category	UNSPECIFIED
Material	FLINT/CHERT
Technique	HEWN
Width	3.5 cm

Bibliography

• Cl. DERRIKS, «Un scorpion en silex», in Bulletin trimestriel du Musée royal de Mariemont, 84, 1998, p. 12; S. HENDRICKX, D. HUYGE, B. ADAMS, «Le scorpion en silex du Musée royal de Mariemont et les silex figuratifs de l'Égypte pré-et protodynastique», in Cahiers de Mariemont, 28-29, 1997-1998, p. 6-33; «Choix d’acquisition 1998-2001. Antiquités d’Égypte et du Proche-Orient», in Cahiers de Mariemont, 32-33, 2005, p. 120;
• Cl. DERRIKS et L. DELVAUX, Antiquités égyptiennes au Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, 2009, p. 52-53.

Mace head

Mace head
A pear shaped mace head made from diorite. The mace was a favourite weapon in warfare and was also used as a ceremonial weapon by the kings, as evidenced by the countless scenes and reliefs depicting the king smiting Egypt's enemies with a huge mace. Both disc- shaped and pear- shaped mace heads were used in pre-historic Egypt but the disc- shape later went out of use while pear- shaped mace heads are often found in many graves.

Present location LIVERPOOL MUSEUM [03/061] LIVERPOOL
Inventory number 16.11.06.280
Dating PREDYNASTIC PERIOD
Archaeological Site KOM EL-AHMAR/...
Category MACE-HEAD
Material DIORITE
Technique POLISHED
Height 7 cm





Bibliography•Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum., 1995., 51; pl.71

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frage¡mento tejido

Este trozo de tela pintada pertenece a los "sudarios" o las "telas votivas" encontrados en el templo funerario de Mentuhotep II en Deir el-Bahari. La mayor parte de las telas muestran al propietario mientras presenta ofrendas a la <A HREF="God">diosa</A> Hathor. Según la iconografía que presenten, se distinguen muchas categorías. El ejemplar de Bruselas se clasifica en el grupo que presenta a la <A HREF="God>diosa</A> vaca dentro de una barca procesional. Tres pequeñas column...as de jeroglíficos, que coronan la escena, mencionan el nombre de la propietaria y de la <A HREF="God">diosa</A> local.

dinadtía XVIII
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bibliografía
L. Speleers, Recueil des inscriptions égyptiennes des Musées Royaux du Cinquantenaire à Bruxelles, Bruxelles 1923, 46 nº 162
Van dieren en mensen. Getuigenissen uit Prehistorie en Oudheid - Des animaux et des hommes. Témoignages de la Préhistoire et de l'Antiquité (Exposition), Bruxelles 1988, 178 nº 177
G. Pinch, Votive Offerings to Hathor, Oxford 1993, 111
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Vessel

Vessel

A large sherd of pottery, decorated with a blue pattern including lotus flowers with black outlines on a buff background.
AMARNA/AKHETATEN
XVIII dinasty

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Red pottery with polished white decoration This type of vessel in terracotta, which dates from the Naqada I Period, imitates models of basketry. It is also characterised by geometric patterns identical to the small braided baskets. E 1506 NAQADA I KMKG - MRAH

Red pottery with polished white decoration
This type of vessel in terracotta, which dates from the Naqada I Period, imitates models of basketry. It is also characterised by geometric patterns identical to the small braided baskets.
E 1506

NAQADA I
KMKG - MRAH



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This type of vessel in terracotta, which dates from the Naqada I Period, imitates models of basketry. It is also characterised by geometric patterns identical to the small braided baskets.
E 1506

NAQADA I
KMKG - MRAH

Nubian warrior in front of a chariot

Nubian warrior in front of a chariot
ostracon from Deir el Medinah
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Painted plaster from the exterior of a house

From Tell el-Amarna, Egypt
18th Dynasty, around 1345 BC

From a colourful doorway

Finds of painted plaster show that Egyptian houses were originally decorated using many colours. This fragments shows that some areas, such as around the door, were moulded. This doorway was made to look like the entrance to a temple, with characteristic curved cornice with black, red and blue bands. The rounded horizontal moulding below this represents the lintel of the temple. This was made of reeds bound together with rope in ancient times, when temples were made of organic materials rather than stone. This feature was incorporated into the decoration when stone was used, and is shown here as a red zigzag pattern.

Relatively few city sites have been found in Egypt. Tell el-Amarna, ancient Akhetaten, was the capital built by Akhenaten, and occupied only during his reign. The abandoned houses, temples, palaces and administrative buildings were left standing and were gradually covered by sand. Archaeological investigation of the city has provided a great deal of information about town planning, and the construction of different types of building in the late Eighteenth Dynasty. Some houses were preserved to a height of over a metre, with staircases and emplacements for columns and granaries still intact.

T.G.H. James, Egyptian painting and drawing (London, The British Museum Press, 1985)

M. Stead, Egyptian life (London, The British Museum Press, 1986)
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Thoth, Ibys

Thoth, Ibys
Deir el Medinah
ostracon
from the Royak Museums of artsand History
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Scarabeo con nome reale

Scarabeo con nome reale

18TH DYNASTY:  TUTHMOSIS III/MENKHEPERRE

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INTRODUCCION A LOS JEROGLIFICOS EGIPCIOS

BILL MANLEY; MARK COLLIER , ALIANZA EDITORIAL, 2013
ISBN 9788420678399

 ¿Le intriga la escritura jeroglífica del antiguo Egipto? ¿Ha deseado alguna vez poder entenderla? Ahora puede. Con la ayuda de esta práctica guía para autodidactas, podrá profundizar en el conocimiento de la lengua y la cultura del Egipto antiguo. Basándose en los textos que acompañan a una selección de inscripciones funera rias, sarcófagos y escenas de tumbas, se ofrece una visión de primera mano sobre diversos temas, tales como la administración faraónica, la vida familiar en el Egipto antiguo y las ideas egipcias sobre la muerte

EGIPTO EN LA EPOCA DE LAS PIRAMIDES

ANTONIO PEREZ LARGACHA , ALIANZA EDITORIAL, 1998
ISBN 9788420639857

 Pese al paso de los siglos, la atracción que sobre nosotros ejercen Egipto y la que comúnmente aparece como su más paradigmática expresión -las pirámides- no sólo cesa, sino que más bien se acrecienta. Sin embargo, como explica ANTONIO PÉREZ LARGACHA, estos imponentes monumentos funerarios son únicamente una expresión más d e la civilización faraónica, y ni mucho menos la más dilatada en el tiempo, ya que abarcó sólo el llamado Reino Antiguo. Escrito con el propósito de aclarar este y otros estereotipos que una insuficiente información ha engendrado en nuestra mente, EGIPTO EN LA ÉPOCA DE LAS PIRÁMIDES constituye una panorámica sencilla pero rigurosa acerca de un periodo de la historia de Egipto que sigue fascinando y sorprendiendo.

 

HISTORIA DE EGIPTO

MANETON , ALIANZA EDITORIAL, 2003
ISBN 9788420655673

 La figura de MANETÓN es, sin lugar a dudas, una de las más sugerentes entre las que integran el conjunto de autores egipcios que utilizaron el griego como lengua escrita. Su HISTORIA DE EGIPTO o «Crónica egipcia» ­una de las fuentes más importantes con respecto al Egipto de los faraones­ ha llegado hasta nosotros a través d e diversos fragmentos insertos en la obra de distintos autores, generalmente no de escaso relieve, y que pueden clasificarse en dos grupos bien definidos: eltransmitido a través de Flavio Josefo y el constituido por las referencias al texto de Manetón que se encuentran en la literatura patrística. Prologada y traducida en la presente edición por César Vidal, esta obra reviste una importancia fundamental para el conocimiento de uno de los aspectos más interesantes de la historia de laAntigüedad.

EGIPTO: A LA LUZ DE UNA TEORIA PLURALISTA DE LA CULTURA

JAN ASSMANN , AKAL, 1995
ISBN 9788446005452

Breve y denso resumen histórico y teórico del proceso completo de la cultura egipcia, considerada en el marco de las concepciones egipcias del tiempo y el sentido, desde la fundación del Imperio Antiguo hasta la época romana

EL IMPERIO EGIPCIO: INSCRIPCIONES, CA 1550-1300 A.C.

JOSE MANUEL GALAN , TROTTA, 2002
ISBN 9788481645231

A medida que la administración de la corona egipcia iba haciéndose más eficaz, la elite social se enriquecía y sofisticaba, y aumentaba la «necesidad» de adquirir productos de importación. A partir del año 2000 a. C., la presencia egipcia adopta cierto carácter permanente en áreas concretas, como las minas del Sin aí, el puerto libanés de Biblos y, sobre todo, Nubia. Los reyes egipcios de la dinastía XVIII, en el siglo XV a. C., extienden sus fronteras hasta la cuarta catarata del Nilo y, por el norte, dominan la región de Palestina y el sur de Siria, llegando hasta el Eufrates y Ugarit. Los textos traducidos en el presente volumen expresan la percepción del imperialismo egipcio desde el punto de vista de sus propios actores

GENTES DEL VALLE DEL NILO: LA SOCIEDAD EGIPCIA DURENTE EL PERIODO FARAONICO

JOSE MIGUEL PARRA ORTIZ
  , COMPLUTENSE, 2003
ISBN 9788474917215

 Desde el más humilde campesino, obligado a cultivar unas míseras aruras de tierra, hasta los sacerdotes, encargados de realizar ofrendas en los templos, pasando por las mujeres, dedicadas a criar su numerosa prole de ruidosos y desnudos chiquillos, todos en el valle del Nilo formaron parte, encabezados por el faraón, de ese complejo rompecabezas que fue la sociedad faraónica. A ellos y a las relaciones que establecieron entre sí le debemos, entre otras cosas, la invención de la escritura, la construcción de las pirámides de las meseta de Guiza, la realización de los relieves que decoran las tumbas del Valle de los Reyes o la redacción de textos tan inmortales como el Himno a Atón, cuyos ecos se siguen escuchando desde las páginas del Salmo 104 de la Biblia. Escrito con un estilo atractivo que sumerge de lleno al lector en el fascinante mundo de la vida cotidiana de los antiguos egipcios, Gentes del Valle del Nilo permite al amante de la divulgación histórica dejarse atrapar por el innegable embrujo de la civilización faraónica. Amor, celos y afán de protagonismo; cohechos, malversaciones y abusos de poder; devoción filial, conspiraciones políticas y robos; azarosas veladas familiares, juicios escandalosos y el ruidoso choque de las espadas en combate; todo ello asoma entre las páginas de esta nueva obra de José Miguel Parra Ortiz, donde se estudian con rigor y amenidad los diversos grupos humanos que compusieron la sociedad del antiguo Egipto Especial bibliográfico sobre el Antiguo Egipto

Fragment of a funerary bead net

Fragment of a funerary bead net consisting of numerous bugle beads and faience beads of a blue color
MUSEO ARQUEOLÓGICO NACIONAL
Madrid

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frogs amulets

Figure of Frogs

 the frog was a symbol of life and fertility

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• Medium: Limestone
• Geographical Locations:
  • Possible place collected: Abydos, Egypt
  • Place made: Egypt
• Dates: ca. 3000-2675 B.C.E.
• Dynasty: I Dynasty - II Dynasty (probably)
• Period: Early Dynastic Period
• Dimensions: 2 3/16 x 5 7/16 in. (5.5 x 13.8 cm)
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talatats

LES «TALATAT» DU IXE PYLÔNE DE KARNAK
ET LE TENY-MENOU
(ASSEMBLAGE ET PREMIÈRE RECONSTRUCTION D'UNE PAROI
DU TEMPLE D'ATON DANS LE MUSÉE DE LOUQSOR)
Jean LAUFFRAY
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Scarab seal

Scarab seal


Period: Iron Age, Phoenicia (?)

Date: ca. 6th century B.C.

Geography: Levant or Syria

Medium: Rock crystal

Dimensions: Seal Face: 1.61 x 1.22 cm Height: 0.87 cm String Hole: 0.2 cm

Classification: Stone-Stamp Seals

Credit Line: Gift in memory of Miss Marian Hunter Wright, 1942

Accession Number: 42.8

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Scaraboid seal

Scaraboid seal

Period: Iron Age, Phoenicia (?)

Date: ca. 8th–7th century B.C.

Geography: Levant or Syria or Anatolia

Medium: Carnelian

Dimensions: Seal Face: 1.92 x 1.55 cm Height: 0.6 cm String Hole: 0.2 cm

Classification: Stone-Stamp Seals

Credit Line: Purchase, 1899

Accession Number: 99.22.38

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Félin à tête humaine

Félin à tête humaine
MRM B.477
AMULET; 3RD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD
MUSÉE ROYAL DE MARIEMONT

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Amuleto de fayenza

Amuleto de fayenza que muestra a Isis, Neftis y Harpócrates.
MUSÉE ROYAL DE MARIEMONT

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Statuette of a Seated Boy

Statuette of a Seated Boy

• Medium: Limestone
• Geographical Locations:
  • Possible place collected: Abydos, Egypt
  • Possible place collected: Mahasna, Egypt
• Dates: ca. 3000-2675 B.C.E.
• Dynasty: I Dynasty-II Dynasty
• Period: Early Dynastic Period
• Dimensions: 2 9/16 x 1 3/4 x 1 5/8 in. (6.5 x 4.4 x 4.1 cm)  (show scale)
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Nubian with oryx, monkey, and leopard skins

Nubian with oryx, monkey, and leopard skins, 8th–7th century b.c.; Neo-Assyrian period; Phoenician style
Excavated at Fort Shalmaneser, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Mesopotamia
Ivory

H. 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm)
Rogers Fund, 1960 (60.145.11)

Furniture decorated with carved ivory plaques was a symbol of wealth throughout the Near East during the early first millennium B.C. The ivories were carved in the major centers of Phoenicia—along the eastern Mediterranean coast—as well as in Syria and the Assyrian plains. Assyrian conquests beginning in the ninth century B.C. brought richly decorated furniture as booty and tribute from the cities of Syria and Phoenicia, and craftsmen taken prisoner from these cities probably continued to carve ivories on the Assyrian coast.
Some Phoenician-style ivories are solid plaques, while others are carved on one or both sides in a delicate openwork technique. Many originally were covered by gold leaf and inlaid with semiprecious stones or colored glass. Such rich combinations of ivory, gold, and brightly colored stones made the thrones of the Assyrian kings famous for their exquisite beauty. Most ivories carved in the Phoenician style were probably produced during the late eighth and seventh centuries B.C.
Phoenician ivory carvers were strongly influenced by the themes and style of Egyptian art owing to longstanding ties between the two cultures. Some Phoenician ivories illustrate purely Egyptian themes, but many use Egyptian motifs in entirely original compositions.
This Nubian tribute bearer exhibits traits of the Phoenician style, characterized by the slender, elongated form of the bearer and his animal gifts, the precision of carving and intricacy of detail, and the distinct Egyptian flavor of both pose and features.
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coptic textil

Textiles like this one are thought to have been produced by Copts (Christian Egyptians) and other weavers throughout the Byzantine Empire. The designs and motifs of Coptic and Byzantine textiles influenced the visual repertoire of the early Islamic period. This fragment was probably part of the shoulder decoration of a tunic, the quintessential garment of the Late Antique world. The people of late antiquity were also buried in these garments, and most surviving examples have been found in cemeteries. This example contains a large eight-pointed star formed by overlaid squares filled with sprouting urns, vine scrolls, and geometric interlaces— motifs also seen in Byzantine floor mosaics.
Coptic Textile Fragment


Object Name: Fragment

Date: late 3rd–5th century

Geography: Egypt

Culture: Coptic

Medium: Linen, wool; plain weave, tapestry weave, brocaded

Dimensions: Textile: H. 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm) W. 20 7/8 in. (53 cm) Mount: H. 15 7/8 in. (40.3 cm) W. 25 3/8 in. (64.5 cm) D. 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)

Classification: Textiles

Credit Line: Purchase by subscription, 1889

Accession Number: 89.18.95
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Furniture fragment with the "woman at the window"

Furniture fragment with the "woman at the window"

Period: Neo-Assyrian

Date: ca. 9th–8th century B.C.

Geography: Syria, probably from Arslan Tash (ancient Hadatu)

Culture: Assyrian

Medium: Ivory, glass

Dimensions: H. 2 1/2 x W. 1 3/4 x Th. 1/2 in. (6.4 x 4.5 x 1.2 cm)

Classification: Ivory/Bone-Reliefs

Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1957

Accession Number: 57.80.12

 

 

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Small Figure of a Woman Lying on a Couch

Small Figure of a Woman Lying on a Couch

• Medium: Limestone, painted
• Place Made: Egypt
• Period: Ptolemaic Period
• Dimensions: 1 13/16 x 1 9/16 x 3 5/8 in. (4.6 x 3.9 x 9.2 cm)  (show scale)
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  Frgment of a statuette showing a recumbent naked woman, reclining with her right arm behind her head. Legs missing
   
   

Mastaba attribué à Neith-Hotep, probablement construit par Hor-Aha.

Mastaba attribué à Neith-Hotep, probablement construit par Hor-Aha.
 Jacques de Morgan — "Recherches sur les origines de l'Egypte II. Ethnographie préhistorique et tombeau royal de Negadah"…

Excavations Petrie

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  Naucratis. source: britishmuseum.org