domingo, 31 de julio de 2016

Statuette of a prince






Statuette of a prince
This standing wooden figure of a prince with slender limbs is shown in an knee-length kilt with a protruding apron front. Curving ribbons hang down from the belt on either side of the apron. His head is covered by a wig with a gilded band around it and a broad sidelock hangs down from his head as far as the upper arm. The object the prince held against his chest with one or even both hands can't be ascertained owing to the fragmentary nature of the piece. The statuette was fitted into the pedestal at a later date, because the four lines of inscription on it mention the title and name of Queen Tiy. Around the pedestal is a decoration of alternating ankh, djed, and was signs.
Present location PELIZAEUS-MUSEUM [04/030] HILDESHEIM
Inventory number 0054
Dating AMENHOTEP IV/AMENOPHIS IV/NEFERKHEPERURE/AKHENATEN (not after); 18TH DYNASTY; AMENHOTEP III/AMENOPHIS III/NEBMAATRE (not before)
Archaeological Site KOM MEDINET GHURAB ?
Category FIGURINE/STATUETTE
Material WOOD; PLASTER; UNSPECIFIED
Technique SCULPTURED; STUCCO; PAINTED ON STUCCO; INLAY
Height 20.8 cm
Width 6.2 cm
Depth 15.1 cm
Translation
"[1] Princess, great of favour, Lady of the Two Shores, the Beloved, [2] the Desired, Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt great of [3] splendour, the 'Holy Jewelry' , the great royal wife Tiy, may she live."
Bibliography•Borchardt, L., Der Porträtkopf der Königin Teje (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 18), Leipzig 1911, S. 14-15, Abb. 14.
•Roeder, G., Die Denkmäler des Pelizaeus-Museums zu Hildesheim, Hildesheim 1921, S. 79, Abb. 25.
•Kayser, H., Die ägyptischen Altertümer im Roemer-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Hildesheim 1973, S. 70.
•Echnaton - Nofretete - Tutanchamun, Hildesheim 1976, Kat.-Nr. 83.
•Eggebrecht, A. (Hrsg.), Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim : Die ägyptische Sammlung, Hildesheim - Mainz 1993, Abb. 54.
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The prehistoric village near Hemamieh


The prehistoric village near Hemamieh
pot burial 59 (Old Kingdom - about 2686-2181 BC)
Petrie Museum
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Papyrus with figures of Amor and Psyche

Papyrus with figures of Amor and Psyche
A papyrus with a scene from the myth of Amor and Psyche drawn with black ink on the recto. Here Psyche is shown - on the left, with butterfly wings- , probably kneeling beside her spouse, holding in her right hand an object identifiable as the lamp that will reveal him. Amor is depicted on the right, with bird wings, half-reclining on the bed.
Present location MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [05/027] FLORENCE
Inventory number 8682
Dating ROMAN PERIOD
Archaeological Site EL-BAHNASA
Category PAPYRUS
Material PAPYRUS
Technique WOVEN
Height 15 cm
Width 25 cm
Bibliography•G.Coppola, in Papiri della Società Italiana, vol. VIII, Firenze, 1927, pgg. 85-87, tav. III.
•AA.VV., Papiri dell'Istituto Papirologico "G.Vitelli", Numero 1, Firenze, 1988, pgg. 32-33, n. 31
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Painted fragment of wall-plaster

Painted fragment of wall-plaster
A fragment of wall-plaster with a fishing scene, from a tomb. Two men on the shore hold an extremity of a net, while a third fisherman on a boat at the other end unrolls the other extremity.
Present location MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [05/027] FLORENCE
Inventory number 2470
Dating NEW KINGDOM
Archaeological Site THEBES: WEST BANK
Category WALL PAINTING
Material PLASTER
Technique PAINTED
Height 43 cm
Width 51 cm
Bibliography•E. Schiaparelli, Museo Archeologico di Firenze-Antichità Egizie, Roma, 1887, pg. 317, n. 1591.
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sábado, 30 de julio de 2016

Female statuette with a child

Female statuette with a child
A sitting female figure with a child on her knees. The head of the child, indicated rather summarily, rests on the left shoulder of the woman.
Present location MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [05/027] FLORENCE
Inventory number 13377
Dating COPTIC PERIOD
Archaeological Site EL-SHEIKH `ABADA/ANTINOOPOLIS
Category FIGURINE/STATUETTE
Material POTTERY
Technique ENGOBE
Height 9.4 cm
Width 8 cm
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Statuette of a praying woman

Statuette of a praying woman
Statuette of a woman praying with her arms held up. The breasts are rendered in relief, a hemispherical concavity represents the navel, and the leg and feet are separated by a vertical groove. The body carries a polychrome decoration of interweaving bands between the breasts and geometric motifs on the belt and back.
Present location MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [05/027] FLORENCE
Inventory number 13361
Dating COPTIC PERIOD
Archaeological Site EL-SHEIKH `ABADA/ANTINOOPOLIS
Category FIGURINE/STATUETTE
Material POTTERY
Technique FORMED BY HAND; ENGOBE
Height 10.3 cm
Width 5.45 cm
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domingo, 24 de julio de 2016

TT175

The owner and his wife (probably) are sitting on seats with high backs placed on a mat and hold the stem of a lotus in the right hand. They wear the Theban cone upon their wigs, like the young girl who presents a cup to those who are probably her parents. Between them stands a table of offerings on which are piled various commodities.
Behind the girl are three musicians, two are nude, the third wearing a transparent dress. They play the harp, a long necked lute or a double flute

TT175

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Mummy coffin of Pedusiri

Mummy coffin of Pedusiri, detail of the chest area, including the goddess Nut with outstreched wings, in plastered, polychromed, and gilded wood, Egyptian late dynastic or early Greco-Roman period, circa 500 - 25 B.C.E. Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Fragment of an ivory label showing pharaoh Den

Fragment of an ivory label showing pharaoh Den, wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. Originally from Abydos, Umm el Qaab, tomb T (Tomb of Horus Den). Now in the Egyptian Museum. Undoubtedly this representation of Horus Den marks an advance in regard to the iconography of the double crown. Remains of the original color, used for painting the label, still visible on top of the white crown and sides of the red crown. bibliography: Petrie, W.M.Flinders. 1901. The royal tombs of the first dynasty. Part II, p.21, pl. X.13; XIV.7-7a.

Ramesses II at Abydos.


The heiroglyph "Keftiu" is named in the Cartouche (oval enclosure below the figure). The figure is one of nine figues, "The Nine Bows" (which vary) Here each of the Nine Bows are depicted the same way, a Syrian type is repeated nine times not a Keftiu but intended here to represent a generic foreign enemy. Below each of these nine generic foreigners is a different heiroglyphic name of a foreign enemy. This photo was taken at II. Ramses' Temple at Abydos, on the NW corner of the peristyle yard
Nine Bows) Ramesses II at Abydos.

sábado, 23 de julio de 2016

Bunefer


Museum number
EA1274
Description
Full: Front
Rectangular limestone stela(?) of Prince Bunefer; central column of Hieroglyphic text.
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Stone sarcophagus lid of Queen Khedebneithirbinet

Stone sarcophagus lid of Queen Khedebneithirbinet (Chedeb-Neith-Iret-Bin)
granite
26th Dynasty,
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Viena

TWO BOOKS FOR ONE LADY, The mother of Herihor rediscovered

TWO BOOKS FOR ONE LADY, The mother of Herihor rediscovered
https://www.academia.edu/4105244/TWO_BOOKS_FOR_ONE_LADY_The_mother_of_Herihor_rediscovered

Bastet

Present location

MUSÉE ROYAL DE MARIEMONT [07/009] MARIEMONT

Inventory number

B.479

Dating

LATE PERIOD

Archaeological Site

UNKNOWN

Category

ANIMAL/HYBRID FIGURINE

Material

BRONZE

Technique

CASTING BY WAXWORK

Height

20 cm

Bibliography

  • B. VAN DE WALLE, Antiquités égyptiennes, Bruxelles, 1952 (Les antiquités égyptiennes, grecques, étrusques, romaines et gallo-romaines du Musée de Mariemont), n° E. 96, p. 42, pl. 11; C. DERRIKS, Choix d’œuvres, I. Égypte, Morlanwelz, 1990, n° 20; M.-C. BRUWIER, «La collection égyptienne de Raoul Warocqué, II. De 1912 à 1917», in Cahiers de Mariemont, 20-21, 1989-1990, p. 51; Cl. DERRIKS et L. DELVAUX, Antiquités égyptiennes au Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, 2009, p. 180.
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jueves, 21 de julio de 2016

Fragment of relief with courtier

Fragment of relief with courtier
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This is one of numerous relief fragments from a series of offering-bearers or courtiers, retrieved by the Egypt Exploration Fund in the clearance of the temple of king Nebhepetra Mentuhotep on the West Bank at Thebes. The fragment preserves part of a finely carved figure of a courtier, one hand held in reverence to the chest. He wears a formal kilt bound in a knot at the waist. Series of such figures are first found in relief on the walls of Old Kingdom royal pyramid temples, evidently the inspiration for the artists of Mentuhotep during the reunification of Egypt at the beginning of the Middle Kingdom.
Present location NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN
Inventory number 1907:476
Dating MENTUHOTEP II/NEBHEPETRE
Archaeological Site DEIR EL-BAHARI
Category RELIEF
Material LIMESTONE
Technique RELIEF; PAINTED; CARVED
Height 24 cm
Width 32 cm
Depth 11 cm
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miércoles, 20 de julio de 2016

Nofretete

Neues Reich, 18. Dynastie, um 1340 v. Chr.
Kalkstein, Gips, Bergkristall, Wachs
Amarna
Höhe 50 cm
Inv.-Nr. ÄM 21300
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Nakhti, ruler of Asiut




Nakhti, ruler of Asiut
The statuette of the chancellor Nakhti was found at the beginning of the 20th century in the course of excavations in the necropolis of the rulers of Asiut. It is a very original piece: the use of alabaster, which gives a soapy and unfinished appearance, is exceptional. Nakhti is seated on a cube-shaped seat, and rests his left hand on his left knee, while his right fist is clenched on his right knee. The hands and feet are very large in relation to the rest of his body, and the use of black paint for the eyes and eyebrows gives the face a very expressive appearance. Even if the statuette does give the impression of imperfection of form, it does express the imperturbable strength of a provincial noble living at the beginning of the Middle Kingdom.
Present location KMKG - MRAH [07/003] BRUSSELS
Inventory number E.5596
Dating MIDDLE KINGDOM
Archaeological Site ASIUT
Category FIGURINE/STATUETTE
Material CALCITE/ALABASTER
Technique HEWN; POLISHED; PAINTED; SCULPTURED
Height 29 cm
Width 12 cm
Depth 21 cm
Bibliography•R. Tefnin, Sculptuur van het Oude Egypte - Statues et statuettes de l'Ancienne Égypte, Bruxelles 1988, 24-27
•J.-Ch. Balty, e.a., Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Brussel, Oudheid - Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles, Antiquité - The Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Antiquity, Bruxelles 1988, 18
•F. Lefebvre et B. Van Rinsveld, L'Égypte. Des Pharaons aux Coptes, Bruxelles 1990, 49-50
•E. Teeter, How Many Statues of Nakhti ?, GM 114 (1990) 101-106
•Th. De Putter et Chr. Karlshausen, Les pierres, Bruxelles 1992, 45
•W. Seipel, Gott, Mensch, Pharao. Viertausend Jahre Menschenbild in der Skulptur des Alten Ägypten (Exposition), Vienne 1992, 178
•D. Wildung (Éd.), Ägypten, 2000 v. Chr. Die Geburt des Individuums, Munich 2000, 68 et 179 nº 13
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Lute player

Lute player
This small decorative plaque of bronze probably embellished a column of one of the Theban temples; it was brought back from Egypt by Jean Looze, a participant in the Napoleonic Expedition of 1798. It depicts a lute player standing on a papyrus skiff. This scene is well known from painted walls of tombs and toilette objects and can even be found in the form of an amulet. This object dates from the reign of Tutankhamun and the style shows the influence of Amarna ar...t: the pose of the body of the player, wrapped in a pleated garment and with a prominent belly, is very characteristic of the age of Akhenaten.
Present location KMKG - MRAH [07/003] BRUSSELS
Inventory number E.2244
Dating 18TH DYNASTY
Archaeological Site UNKNOWN
Category UNSPECIFIED
Material BRONZE
Technique CASTING
Height 19 cm
Bibliography•(M. Werbrouck,) Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles. Département égyptien, Album, Bruxelles 1934, pl. 64
•Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis te Brussel. Oudheid, het Verre Oosten, Volkenkunde - Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire. Antiquités, Extrême-Orient, Ethnographie, Bruxelles 1958, Égypte nº 21
•F. Lefebvre et B. Van Rinsveld, L'Égypte. Des Pharaons aux Coptes, Bruxelles 1990, 3, 109
•Van Nijl tot Schelde - Du Nil à l'Escaut (Exposition), Bruxelles 1991, 135-137 n° 131
•W. Decker et M. Herb, Bildatlas zum Sport im Alten Ägypten, Leyde 1994, I 807 S. 4.6.
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inscriptions of king Thutmose I

Member of the University of Chicago Expedition photographing historical i
nscriptions of king Thutmose I (ca. 1524 B.C.). Photo from the 1906-7 expedition.
Oriental Institute Negative Number: N 2699

martes, 19 de julio de 2016

Vignette from the Book of the Dead of Tanafer

Vignette from the Book of the Dead of Tanafer. Hathor in the form of a sacred cow licks the arm of the dead man to reassure him. Country of Origin: Ancient Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: Late Period 21st Dynasty, c 1069 - 945 BC. Material/Size: papyrus. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

lunes, 18 de julio de 2016

Remapping Plaeogeomorphology of the Nile river in Upper Egypt through ancient Egyptian time

Remapping Plaeogeomorphology of the Nile river in Upper Egypt through ancient Egyptian time
Magdy Torab
http://www.academia.edu/2580286/Remapping_Plaeogeomorphology_of_the_Nile_river_in_Upper_Egypt_through_ancient_Egyptian_time

Pebble


Pebble
M11929.jpg
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An inscribed pebble, possibly from a foundation deposit at the temple of Montuhotep II at Deir el-Bahari.
Present location LIVERPOOL MUSEUM [03/061] LIVERPOOL
Inventory number M11929
Dating HATSHEPSUT/MAATKARE
Archaeological Site DEIR EL-BAHARI
Category RELIGIOUS OR CULT OBJECT
Material CALCITE/ALABASTER
Technique POLISHED
Width 5.5 cm
Translation
The good god, Maatkare, he has made his monuments for his father, Nebhepetre, true of voice.
Bibliography•Aidan Dodson., The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology., Hatshepsut and 'her father' Mentuhotpe II., Volume 75, 1989, 224-226; pl. XXIX
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