miércoles, 29 de julio de 2015


A fragment of a millefiori

A fragment of a millefiori glass plate from Meroe, with blue flowers on a black background. The millefiore technique originated in Egypt for making decorative inlay plaques. Coloured rods were arranged in a pattern so that they could be fused and made into a composite rod, transverse slices were cut from the composite rod and each produced the original pattern.

Present location LIVERPOOL MUSEUM [03/061] LIVERPOOL
Inventory number 49.47.932
Dating MEROITIC PERIOD
Archaeological Site BEGRAWIYA
Category PLATE
Material GLASS
Technique MILLEFIORI






Bibliography•Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum., 1995., 99; pl.156.


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Senet board

Senet board

A fragment of a faience game board for Senet, with four pieces, from Abydos. The board has a blue/green glaze and the squares are painted on in black. Board games were very popular and were often depicted on wall paintings and included in funerary furniture. Senet is known from Predynastic times to the late Roman Period, today a similar game is still played in the Sudan.
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Present location LIVERPOOL MUSEUM [03/061] LIVERPOOL
Inventory number 55.82.9
Dating NEW KINGDOM
Archaeological Site ABYDOS
Category SENET-GAME/THIRTY SQUARE BOARD
Material FAIENCE
Technique FAYENCE
Bibliography•Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum., 1995., 48-49; pl.64.
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A model depicting brewing

A model depicting brewing, baking and butchery, made from wood and gesso. On the left two women are grinding flour, a bread oven is next to them. A woman originally kneeling beside the oven is now lost. In the centre a man is cutting the throat of an ox with a flint knife; the legs of the ox are bound together and the man kneels with one hand pressing the head to the floor. To the right another man is pressing barley bread through a sieve into a vat where it will ferment when mixed with water and date juice. Beside him are other vats and sealed beer jars, two with net coverings. Models like this one, showing butchery, are from the tombs of nobles, the only Egyptians to eat meat regularly.

Present location

LIVERPOOL MUSEUM [03/061] LIVERPOOL

Inventory number

55.82.7

Dating

MIDDLE KINGDOM

Archaeological Site

BENI HASSAN

Category

MODEL

Material

WOOD; GESSO

Technique

WOOD-TECHNIQUE

Bibliography

  • Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum., 1995., 13; pl.17.
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A rhyton in the form of a bull

A rhyton in the form of a bull. Culture: Hittite. Date/Period: Empire period c.1400-1200 BC. Place of Origin: Turkey. Material Size: Silver/ 17cms Long. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Schimmel Collection, New York . Location: 06.

Faience figurine of a small man

Faience figurine of a small man, naked except for a broad collar in low relief. The hair and beard are picked out in black.He is seated with flexed knees on a phallic stump with an elongated phallus falling to his ankles.The figure is pierced through the ears and behind the neck and would probably have been worn around the neck. Such erotica were fairly common in Ptolemaic times.

Present location LIVERPOOL MUSEUM [03/061] LIVERPOOL
Inventory number 1993.75
Dating PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
Archaeological Site UNKNOWN
Category EROTIC FIGURINE
Material FAIENCE
Technique FAYENCE
Height 6.8 cm





Bibliography•Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum., 1995., 25; pl.27.

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Hollow clay cylinder inscribed in cuneiform

Hollow clay cylinder inscribed in cuneiform, describing Sin-iddinam's dredging of the Tigris on behalf of various deities. Translation of the text on request. Culture: Sumerian. Date/Period: c. 1850-1843 BC. Place of Origin: Sumeria, Ancient Iraq. Material Size: clay, l = 12.3 cms. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Sold at Christie's London (1998) . Location: 08.

Coin of Diocletian, minted in Alexandria


Coin of Diocletian, minted in Alexandria

Coin with depictions of, on one side, the head of the emperor Diocletian, and, on the other, a standing bearded god with an indistinct attribute, perhaps the horn of plenty. The reign of Diocletian marks a turning-point in the history of the Empire, and in Egypt the end of support for Pharaonic traditions such as the construction of temples in Egyptian style with hieroglyphic inscription. Diocletian was one of the few Roman Emperors to visit Egypt, overhauling military and civilian government. He persecuted the Christian community with such ferocity that the Coptic Church dates its years from his accession, as the 'Era of Martyrs'.


Present location NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN
Inventory number RIA3764
Dating DIOCLETIAN
Archaeological Site UNKNOWN
Category COIN
Material BRONZE




Diameter 2 cm


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lunes, 27 de julio de 2015

shabti from the burial of Takeloth

A faience overseer shabti from the burial of Takeloth, found in the tomb of his father Prince Shoshenq, priest of Ptah at Memphis. Shabti worked in place of the deceased in the land of the dead. In the 3rd Intermediate Period it was the custom to have 365 shabti, plus an overseer for each ten workers. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: 22nd Dynasty, c. 825 BC. Place of Origin: Memphis, Temple of Ptah. Material Size: Faience h = 19.2 cm. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Egyptian Museum, Cairo . Location: 39.

Texto de execración en figurilla

Texto de execración en figurilla. Imperio Medio. Encontrado en Saqqara. Hoy en el Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Bruselas


A detail of the reliefs on the stairways leading to the audience hall of Darius and Xerxes

A detail of the reliefs on the stairways leading to the audience hall of Darius and Xerxes. A procession of Ionian tribute bearers led by ushers bring gifts from the outlying nations of the Persian empire. Culture: Ancient Persian/ Achaemenian. Date/Period: c. 510 - 330 BC. . Place of Origin: Persepolis. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive.

ostracon

Country, Swedish - Origin
Egypten
Name of Person - Photographer
Kaneberg, Ove
Inventory number, Egypt - Depicted
MM 14064
Description, Swedish
Ostraka
Kind
färg
Type
Dia
File Size - Original image
6x6

Tomb of Shuroy

Tomb of Shuroy, deceased and wife adore Maat and Re-Harachte, TT 13, Dra' Abu el-Naga, Luxor West Bank, Egypt
Ewer, 7th–6th century b.c.
Phoenician; [Spain?]
Bronze; H. 13.98 in. (35.51 cm)
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1955 (55.121.1)
Vessels of similar form and construction have been excavated in Cyprus, Italy, and the Iberian Peninsula, with related ceramic examples from Cyprus and the Levant. The piriform shape of this vessel is divided into two sections by a narrow raised band. The convex lower body rests on a hollow ring foot above which the elegant neck gradually tapers into a trefoil lip. A three-ridged handle spouts from a palmette with tendrils and attaches the lower body to the lip. At the top of the handle the three ridges transform into three snake heads, the central one of which extends directly into the vessel. The closest parallel to this ewer is an example from Niebla in Spain, at the Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan, Madrid, which has looped snake heads at the top of the handle.

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Sumerian marble mace head

Sumerian marble mace head inscribed with cuneiform text reading 'To Shara, beloved son of Inanna, king of the gods, ...Ur-Pirigbandaka gave [this].' Culture: Sumerian. Date/Period: c. 2400 - 2000 BC. Place of Origin: Sumeria, Ancient Iraq. Material Size: marble h = 9 cms. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Sold at Christie's London (1996) . Location: 08.

Ostraka

Ostraka
MM 14142 överst
MM 14104
...

sábado, 25 de julio de 2015

Crocodile Mummy Mask





Crocodile Mummy Mask, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst München, ÄS 6809

A vessel in the form of a ram


A vessel in the form of a ram. The eyes were probably from a different material. Culture: Sumerian. Date/Period: Early Dynastic c. 3000-2340 BC. Place of Origin: Sumeria, Ancient Iraq. Material Size: Alabaster. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Toni Ralph Collection, New York. . Location: 08.

Green Room" in the North Palace at Amarna,

Green Room" in the North Palace at Amarna, New Kingdom, Amarna Period, Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353–1336 b.c.
Egyptian; original from Amarna, North Palace
Color facsimile by Norman (1865–1941) or Nina de Garis Davies (1881–1965)
Tempera on paper

H. 41 9/16 in. (105.5 cm), W. 167 5/16 in. (425 cm), scale 1:1
Rogers Fund, 1930 (30.4.136)

This painting is a restoration of a scene of marsh life that formed a continuous frieze in the so-called Green Room in the North Palace at Amarna. The North Palace was a rather isolated structure on the Royal Road north of the Central City. In its final state, it was the palace of the king's eldest daughter and heir Meritaten; previously it may have been the palace of Kiya. From the entry at the west, courts, solar altars, and a window of appearance are succeeded by more reserved areas around what appears to have been a central well, including a throne room, formal and private apartments, kitchens and staff areas, and animal pens. At the northeast corner was a complex where a sunken garden was surrounded on three sides by small cubicles, some of which had windows onto the central garden. Scenes of feeding fowl or waterbank scenes were found in many places. In the Green Room, part of a double cubicle on the north side, a continuous scene of waterfowl and plants had been painted on four walls. This facsimile copies a long-preserved stretch on the west wall.
The blank yellow rectangles mark the place of niches in the original Green Room, all of them framed, and the upper ones with a small pool of water painted beneath. At the bottom, a water channel with lotus plants is bounded on either side by black silty stretches with brushy plants. Above is a tangle of marsh plants and papyrus populated by lively birds. The strikingly beautiful idyllic painting surrounding the small space in the cubicle would have created an encompassing experience.

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Demotic Graffiti from the Wadi Hammamat






Demotic Graffiti from the Wadi Hammamat
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Sa sign

Sa sign, Dynasty 11, reign of Mentuhotep II, ca. 2051–2000 b.c.
Egyptian; Thebes, Mentuhotep Temple, North Triangular Court, Pit 23
Electrum, silver
Rogers Fund, 1925 (25.3.253

This hieroglyph, depicting a shepherd's rolled-up shelter, means protection. It was used regularly as an amulet and carried by certain deities, especially the Bes image and Taweret.

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Stamp seal amulet of a seated woman

Stamp seal amulet of a seated woman, 3300–2900 b.c.; Late Uruk/Jemdet Nasr period
Iran or Mesopotamia
Rhodochrosite; 0.85 x 1.02 in. (2.3 x. 3 cm)
Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1988 (1988.380.1)


This tiny but finely carved seal amulet is in the shape of a squatting female wearing a diadem. The single row of small cavities on the diadem, as well as those on her breasts and in her eye, were probably filled with inlay. Her head is shown in profile with a prominent nose. One visible arm rests on her torso, with her hand on a folded knee, while the other knee is held up. Similar squatting figures are known both on cylinder seals from Iran, Mesopotamia, and Syria and as small sculpture in the round from the Iranian site of Susa. Dating from the end of the late fourth into the early third millennium B.C., such depictions are today known as "pig-tailed women" and, although many appear to be engaged in pottery of textile manufacture, they may also have had some religious meaning, perhaps depicting a gesture of worship. The other side of the amulet may have been used as a seal to make an impression in damp clay. It is flat with eight groups of drill holes that possibly represent schematic dogs.

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Hollow clay cylinder inscribed in cuneiform

Hollow clay cylinder inscribed in cuneiform, describing Sin-iddinam's dredging of the Tigris on behalf of various deities. Translation of the text on request. Culture: Sumerian. Date/Period: c. 1850-1843 BC. Place of Origin: Sumeria, Ancient Iraq. Material Size: clay, l = 12.3 cms. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Sold at Christie's London (1998) . Location: 08.

viernes, 24 de julio de 2015

redynastic unfired clay statuette

Predynastic unfired clay statuettes thought to depict women in mourning, from the Ancient Egyptian wing of the Royal Ontario Museum

Plaster head model of a falcon

Ancient Egyptian Gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum 
 Plaster head model of a falcon. Likely from the 30th dynasty, circa 378-341 BC

Greek Corinthian Helmet and skull

Greek Corinthian Helmet and skull reportedly found inside it from the w:Battle of Marathon, now residing in the Royal Ontario Museum, T
oronto.




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Palmyra Tombstone of Akmath

Palmyra Tombstone of Akmath, from the 2nd Century AD. Now residing in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

A jar bearing the face of Bes

A jar bearing the face of Bes dating the era of the New Kingdom. RC 216
Rosicrucian Egyptian museum

Group of the nobleman and mayor of Thebes Sennefer

Group of the nobleman and mayor of Thebes Sennefer, his wife Sentnay and their daughter Mutnefert between them; other daughters in relief on sides. Granite from Karnak, reign of Amenhotep III, 18th dynasty, New Kingdom. Cairo, Egyptian Museum CG 42126 (JE 36574).

Traveling Boat being Rowed

Traveling Boat being Rowed, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, reign of Amenemhat I, early, ca. 1981–1975 b.c.
From Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Southern Asasif, Tomb of Meketre (TT 280, MMA 1101), serdab, MMA 1920
Wood, paint, gesso, linen twine and linen fabric
l. 50 3/8 in. (128 cm), with rudder 68 7/8 in. (175 cm) x w. with oars 12 in. (30.5 cm) x h. 14 9/16 in. (37 cm)
Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1920 (20.3.1)

This model of a riverboat was found with twenty three other models of boats, gardens, and workshops in a hidden chamber at the side of the passage leading into the rock cut tomb of the royal chief steward Meketre, who began his career under King Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II of Dynasty 11 and continued to serve successive kings into the early years of Dynasty 12. Meketre is seated smelling a lotus blossom in the shade of a small cabin, which on an actual boat would have been made of a light wooden framework with linen or leather hangings. Here the hangings are shown partly rolled up to let the breeze into the cabin. Wooden shields covered with bulls' hides are painted on each side of the cabin roof. A singer, with his hand to his lips, and a blind harper entertain Meketre on his voyage. Standing in front of him is a man, probably the ship's captain, with his arms crossed over his chest. He may be depicted awaiting orders, but he may also be paying homage to the deceased Meketre. As the twelve oarsmen propel the boat, a lookout in the bow holds a weighted line used to determine the depth of the river. At the stern, the helmsman controls the rudder. A tall white post amidship supported a mast and sail (not found in the tomb), which would have been taken down when the boat was rowed downstream—as it is here—against the prevailing north wind. Going south (upstream), with the wind behind it, the boat would have been sailed. The boat is similar to one Meketre might have used in his lifetime. Certain details, however, suggest that on this voyage Meketre is traveling toward the afterlife. For instance the blossom he holds is the blue lotus, a flower the Egyptians associated with rebirth.

All the accessible rooms in the tomb of Meketre had been robbed and plundered already during Antiquity; but early in 1920 the Museum's excavator, Herbert Winlock, wanted to obtain an accurate floor plan of the tomb's layout for his map of the Eleventh Dynasty necropolis at Thebes and, therefore, had his workmen clean out the accumulated debris. It was during this cleaning operation that the small hidden chamber was discovered, filled with twenty-four almost perfectly preserved models. Eventually, half of these went to the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, and the other half came to the Metropolitan Museum in the partition of finds.

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Gold Box Ring Surmounted by a Scarab





miércoles, 22 de julio de 2015

TT277, the tomb of Ameneminet .

TT277, the tomb of Ameneminet .


the Chapel
It is clear that it is backed by the Theban mountain in which it penetrates.
• At the summit is a pyramid, covered with a black pyramidion, with the usual niche intended for a stele (see pm-112151).
• Below are found two ledges with between the two a scene showing the knelt down deceased, in worship in front of the solar boat, with the fragmentary remains of a text: "[...] for the divine father Ameneminet, just of voice".
• The wooden door is painted yellow and contains a small representation of the deceased in worship in front of Osiris.
• The lintel which overhangs it includes, as downstrokes, a text (see ch-256): "An offering which the king gives to Re-Horakhty, the great god. An offering which the king gives to Atum, master of Heliopolis".
• Left doorpost: "An offering which the king gives to Osiris khentimentiu, Unnefer, Lord of Abydos [...] for the ka [...] Ameneminet".
• Right doorpost: "An offering which the king gives to Anubis, (master of) the tent of purification, which is in its bands, the master of the necropolis, for the Ka of the divine father of Ptah-Sokaris, Ameneminet".



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TT341, the tomb of Nakhtamon

TT341, the tomb of Nakhtamon


 The Henu barque
in the Shetit shrine,
in tomb TT45


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AMARNA CENTRAL CITY


AMARNA CENTRAL CITY

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Stamp seal with quadruped

Stamp seal with quadruped, 4500–3600 b.c.; Ubaid–Middle Gawra period
Syro/Cilicia or Anatolia
Chlorite

1.24 x 1.16 in. (3.16 x 2.96 cm)
Bequest of Lester Wolfe, 1984 (1984.175.15)

During the Neolithic period (ca. 7000 B.C.), stamp seals are known from northern Iraq, northern Syria, and southeastern Anatolia. These pendants were carved with designs that probably combined a glyptic and an amuletic role and are of simple, mostly geometric forms. This seal demonstrates the development in the Ubaid period of seals depicting animals. A quadruped with an elongated body faces left. Above the animal are two joined arcs over which may be an inverted horned animal's head. A branching form beneath the quadruped may represent vegetation.

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bearer from the tomb of Niankhpepi

Wooden statuette of a bearer from the tomb of Niankhpepi, 'supervisor of Upper Egypt, chancellor of the king of lower Egypt,' at Meir. The figure wears a white kilt and short wig, and carries a rucksack and basket. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Pharaonic, Old Kingdom. Date/Period: 6th dynasty c.2289-2255 BC. Place of Origin: Meir, tomb of Niankhpepi. Material Size: Wood, h = 36.5 cm. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Egyptian Museum, Cairo . Location: 40.