lunes, 30 de mayo de 2016

Head of statuette of bearded man

Head of statuette of bearded man
Fragmentary head from the statue of an older, bearded man. The rounded face has wide cheeks, a sloping forehead and a long rounded chin. The deep-set eyes are very naturalistically shaped. The full beard on the preserved right cheek was indicated with chisel marks placed close together. A full beard occurs more often in three-dimensional sculpture in the Ptolemaic Period. The material, meta-sandstone, suggests the piece was made in Egypt.
26TH DYNASTY or +
Rogge, E., Statuen der 30. Dynastie und der ptolemäisch-römischen Epoche. Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum (CAA) Wien 11 (1998).
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Objetos egipcios. Museo de Bellas artes de Madrid


 Objetos egipcios. Museo de Bellas artes de Madrid












Naophorous statuette of Nefer-ib-Re

Naophorous statuette of Nefer-ib-Re
FIGURINE/STATUETTE
Nefer-ib-Re, who is dressed in a short pleated kilt, is kneeling and leaning against a back pillar. He is holding a naos with a djed-pillar in front of him. The finely modelled face is framed by bag-wig.
27TH DYNASTY
PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS
KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM
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UNSPECIFIED FRAGMENT OF MUMMY TRAPPINGS

UNSPECIFIED FRAGMENT OF MUMMY TRAPPINGS
Cartonnage. Black drawing of a face on a white background. The face is framed by the remains of a blue wig.
PAINTED ON STUCCO
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
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male statue

This head of a male statue is of an old bald man. The outlines of the skull are visible underneath the skin of the long face. The deep-set eyes are set wide apart. The nose is broken off. On the back of the head, part of the back pillar reaches up to the middle of the head.
DIORITE
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
Rogge, E., Statuen der 30. Dynastie und der ptolemäisch-römischen Epoche. Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum (CAA) Wien 11 (1998).
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Double finger amulet

Double finger amulet
The double finger amulet depicted the outstretched index and middle fingers of the right or left hand. The material of which these amulets are made is often a dark hard stone, such as. obsidian, basalt, dark limestone or slate. Its meaning is not entirely clear, but has to do with where it was placed on the mummy. It is a pure funerary amulet and never occurs with a loop for suspension. The amulet is most often found near the incision in the belly, which ...was made to extract the intestines. Maybe this amulet was intended to close the incision and thus emphasise the new wholeness of the body.
The amulet is worked on both sides.

OBSIDIAN
Inventory number 2000
KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM
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domingo, 29 de mayo de 2016

Statue bust of a man

Statue bust of a man
Only the upper part of a standing statue of a man has been preserved: the head, shoulders and chest. The nose was broken off and has been repaired. Although this has been done in the same stone as the rest of the statue, the nose is probably not the original because the left nostril is too big at the point of transition to the face. It is likely that the nose was added during a modern restoration using some of the still extant fragments from the bottom pa...rt of the statue, or from the levelling of the broken surface below. The man is depicted with the bag-shaped wig characteristic of the Late Period. His clothes consist of a wrap-around cloak tied at the chest, and beneath it the so-called Persian garment which consists of a tunic with a V-shaped neck in which the round neckline of a vest can be discerned. One tip of the cloak hangs down on the right side of the chest, while the other tip has been rolled up, realistically represented with all its folds. Judging by the angle of the upper arm, the statue should be reconstructed as either naophorous or stelaphorous, i.e. as a statue holding a small god's shrine or a small divine figure. As is customary at this time, the statue has a back pillar which reaches up nearly to the middle of the head.
MIT RAHINA/MEMPHIS
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
(1) The venerable with Ptah, South-of-his-Wall, the Lord of Ankhtawy, the Hereditary Prince, the Ruler, the Sealbearer of the King of Lower Egypt, the sole and beloved friend, who has an opinion, who is useful of council and wise of utterance [...]<BR>(2) under the leadership of the gods who appear in jubilation. One acts according to what he says, the successful one, ..., who knows why he started (to do something). The Prophet of Amun of the highland (?) [...]<BR>(3) ... your Ka. I was promoted only through your order according to your ..., while my heart aspired to the good. I was faithful to you, since I was a child. You gave favours ... [...]<BR>(4) Now, at the moment of the Hau-nebu, I was called by the ruler of Egypt, because he loved me and he knew (my) being, (he) caused [...]
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stela of Djeho

The stela of Djeho is divided into two sections. In the lunette is a nefer-sign flanked by two udjat-eyes. Below these is an inscription of eleven carved rows of hieroglyphs separated from each other by lines. At the bottom are three painted lines in Demotic mentioning Djeho's age. The hieroglyphs are flanked by was-sceptres. All the elements on this stela were painted in black, except the hieroglyphs.
MIT RAHINA/MEMPHIS
FORMULA Htp-di-nsw.t
KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM
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jueves, 26 de mayo de 2016

sandals

sandals

FIBER (FROM PLANTS AND ANIMALS): RUSH

Inventory number 2349

Golenischeff W., Ermitage Imperial. Inventaire de la collection #gyptienne. S.l., 1891, p.341, no.2349.

STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM

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Fragment of a relief: a man's head

Fragment of a relief: a man's head

THEBES: WEST BANK: DEIR EL-BAHARI ?


STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM

Inventory number  19477

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Statuette of a goddess

FIGURINE/STATUETTE

Statuette of a goddess


BRONZE

Inventory number  1485

STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM

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Necklace with the head of the Egyptian god Bes

Necklace with the head of the Egyptian god Bes
Period:AchaemenidDate:ca. 6th–4th century B.C.Geography:IranCulture:AchaemenidMedium:GoldDimensions:L. 14 1/8 in. (85.9 cm)Classification:Metalwork-OrnamentCredit Line:Dodge Fund, 1965Accession Number:65.169

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Stela of sbk-Htp(.w)

Stela of sbk-Htp(.w)


Round-topped stela, lacking upper and lower left corners, with substantial surface damage over the uppermost 10 cm; originally with wdA.tj-eyes and Sn-ring in the roundel. The upper half of the stela contains 5 horizontal and 12 vertical lines, and 1 horizontal half-line of incised hieroglyphic text; the sixth vertical line extends almost to the bottom of the stela. The lower half contains a low sunk relief vignette of the owner with hands raised in adoration of Min. To the right, the god is shown in ithyphallic form, standing upon a stepped dais in front of a small depiction of the sHn.t shrine; he wears double-plumed crown, false beard, beaded collar, with two long crossed straps over the torso, and his left arm raises aloft a flail. To the left, the owner stands with hands raised in adoration; he wears a short wig leaving the ear exposed, a plain collar, detailed Sndj.t-kilt under a long kilt with fringe and knot visible at the waist. Behind him stand two smaller figures of men with close-cropped hair, each with hieroglyphic text beside them: the upper man stands with hands raised in adoration, and wears short kilt beneath longer robe, with diagonal band across the torso, and a plain collar; the lower figure stands with one hand against his chest, and the other outstretched holding a duck or goose by the wings, and he wears a short kilt and plain collar. There is a single line border around the sides and double line border along the bottom. Traces of the dark red-brown pigment survive on the legs of the lower left figure and on the face of the owner and the black pigment on his hair is largely preserved. A light red wash is visible along the edges of the stela.

13TH DYNASTY: NEFERHOTEP I/KHASEKHEMRE >

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Group of Ptah and Sakhmet

Group of Ptah and Sakhmet
The group represents the deities standing on a rectangular base. Ptah is mummyform, holding a was staff and a djed symbol. On his head there is a tightly fitting cap being his traditional attribute; his artificial beard is widening downwards. The eyebrows and cosmetic lines are long, continuing at the temples. Sakhmet is shown as a lioness-headed woman with her left foot advanced. She wears a long dress and holds an ankh sign in her right hand and a... staff in the left hand; a sun-disc with an uraeus crowns her head.
Present location STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM [10/002] PETERSBURG
Inventory number 314
Dating LATE PERIOD
Archaeological Site UNKNOWN
Category STATUE
Material BASALT
Technique HEWN; POLISHED
Height 58 cm
Bibliography•Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, p.109, cat.no.116, fig.72.
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mehen

rob koopman - Flickr: mehen, egyptian snake game (rmo leiden, 5th-6th dynasty 2575-2150bc)

mehen

Mehen juego con piedras, de Abydos, 3.000 aC, Neues Museum.

miércoles, 25 de mayo de 2016

La barque solaire avec le dieu Khnounm à tête de bélier

La barque solaire avec le dieu Khnounm à tête de bélier. Le serpent entoure et protège le tabernacle où se trouve le dieu. (séquence du Livre des Portes) Séthi 1er est le 1er Roi important de l'époque Ramesside (1294-1279 av. J.C.). Il a fait construire de nombreux temples dont la grande salle hypostyle du temple d'Amon à Karnak ou le temple de millions d'années à Thèbes ouest. La tombe de Séthi 1er a été découverte par l'italien Belzoni en octobre 1817. Sa conception est totalement nouvelle. Une division est introduite entre les parties supérieures et inférieures et surtout la totalité de la tombe (100m de long) est décorée en relief peint.

Un acercamiento a la simbología del peinado en el Antiguo Egipto"

Un acercamiento a la simbología del peinado en el Antiguo Egipto"


Aroa Velasco Pirez


RESUMEN: Las referencias textuales relativas al cuidado del cabello en el Antiguo Egipto son escasas pero significativas, destacando la sensualidad y el erotismo que simbolizaba el pelo para los egipcios. Iconográficamente tenemos más referencias, esta vez relativas a los gustos y a la simbología que se desprende de los distintos tipos de peinados, tanto masculinos como femeninos.



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domingo, 22 de mayo de 2016

The mastaba of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep




Calling this the east "wall" is a slight exaggeration because it is somewhat limited in its expanse, due to the fact that the two entrances, which connect with the preceding chamber (which are further broadened by the recesses for the doors), lie either side of it. Therefore, it consists only of the central pillar (width: 0.90m; height: 1.94m) and a lintel (height: 0.16m) extending over the pillar to the entire chamber width. The lintel was already damaged in ancient times, presumably during the late period, so that today its original decoration is no longer discernible. Only the tall image field of the pillar remains today (width: 0.78m; height: 1.14 m), and even this had to be reconstructed from single blocks scattered around the offering chamber.

This area is bordered by the conventional colour ladder. The other remaining colour at this end of the offering chamber belongs to the recesses for the two doorways. These were painted red. The recesses over the doorways, however, vanished along with that of the original lintel.
The image field shows a representation of the two deceased embracing. A similar picture is located on the opposite west wall so that a correspondence exists between these two representations.
As with the previous scene of embrace, on the other side of this pillar, Niankhkhnum stands in front of Khnumhotep and again facing north. Both deceased face each other so closely that their noses touch. Their names are drawn in vertical lines behind each of the deceased.

The mastaba of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep

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The mastaba of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep

The mastaba of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep







The top register shows the rarely portrayed scene at the granary, in which the barley required for the scenes below is carefully measured out, precisely 58 hequat-measures. A prime example of Egyptian bureaucracy, the quantity of cereal removed is announced orally, noted by a scribe and then officially endorsed by the overseer of the warehouse.
Registers two to four are devoted to the making of two types of bread, one for consumption and one for brewing beer.
• On the rig...ht of register two, the barley is crushed by two men using long pestles, after which the corn is separated from the chaff. This is then ground and sieved by the women of the left-hand side. The woman on the right, who is sieving the flour, jokingly chides her companion, who is grinding it : "Hurry up now, white one, so that I can sieve the flour!". She then replies : "I'm doing so, as you wish", whilst she is held from behind by her son
The mastaba of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep
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sábado, 21 de mayo de 2016

Min-nakht

Min-nakht is reading the papyrus on his lap. One of the first New Kingdom sculptures of this type, Min-nakht's statue was inspired by early Middle Kingdom style, including his large, prominent ears and his wig. The inscription on the papyrus records Min-nakht's name and his title, royal scribe. On the base is an offering text.

viernes, 20 de mayo de 2016

Large Oval Storage Basket

Large Oval Storage Basket
Period:New KingdomDynasty:Dynasty 18, earlyReign:reign of Thutmose II–Early Joint reignDate:ca. 1492–1473 B.C.Geography:From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Hatnefer and Ramose (below TT 71), MMA excavations, 1935–36Medium:Halfa grass, palm leaf, linen cordDimensions:Basket: L. 63.5 cm (25 in.); Greatest w. 40 cm (15 3/4 in.); H. 23 cm (9 1/16 in.) Lid: L. 56 cm (22 1/16 in.); W. 32 cm (12 5/8 in.); H. 4 cm (1 9/16 in.)Credit... Line:Rogers Fund, 1936
The undisturbed tomb of a woman named Hatnefer (36.3.1) was discovered by the Museum's Egyptian Expedition in 1936. This find was particularly interesting because Hatnefer was the mother of Senenmut, a well-known official of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut. Hatnefer had died in her seventies, outliving her husband, Ramose, and several other family members by many years. When his mother died, Senenmut brought the mummies of his father, three women, and four children from their previous resting place, and had them interred in Hatnefer's tomb. He provided his family with all of the things necessary for the afterlife, including baskets of food to nourish their spirits.
This oval basket has a slightly convex lid. Both are made with coils of grass that are sewn together using the same grass. A flange of two coils has been attached to the inside of the rim using strips of palm leaf. The decoration of chevrons is created with dyed grass wrapped around the coils. The basket contains various types of bread (36.3.73, .74, .78, .79), dishes of dates (36.3.64, .66) and raisins (36.3.65), dome palm nuts, and other foodstuffs (36.3.79).
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Seated figure of the district governor of Metjen






Seated figure of the district governor of Metjen
circa 2600 BC
Medium rose granite
Current location Berlin, Neues Museum

martes, 17 de mayo de 2016