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Castello sforzesco

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Iymery

Mastaba de Iymery (G 6020)

Excavada por:

(Karl) Richard Lepsius, German, 1810–1884

George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942

Dinastía V

fuente: http://giza.fas.harvard.edu/sites/1369/full/

 

Statues of a royal Tutankhamun's wet-nurse (Maia).

 

Statues of a royal Tutankhamun's wet-nurse (Maia).

Cairo Museum

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Statues-of-a-royal-Tutankhamuns-wet-nurse-Maia_fig2_337073617

Luxor Obelisk, Place de la Concorde,

Luxor Obelisk, Place de la Concorde, Paris.

Dennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada - France-000122 - Luxor Obelisk

 

Statue of Lady Sennuwy

Statue of Lady Sennuwy

Egyptian

Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, reign of Senwosret I

1971–1926 B.C.

Findspot: Nubia (Sudan), Kerma, Tumulus K III, hall A

DescriptionEgyptian officials of the Middle Kingdom continued the practice of equipping their tombs with statues to house the ka of the tomb owner and to provide a focal point for the offering cult. Highly ranked officials also dedicated statues of themselves at sanctuaries of gods and deified ancestors. Following the experimental and idiosyncratic interlude of the First Intermediate Period, sculptors once again produced large-scale stone statues, returning to the basic forms and poses established in the Old Kingdom.

This elegant seated statue of Lady Sennuwy of Asyut is one of the most superbly carved and beautifully proportioned sculptures from the Middle Kingdom. The unknown artist shaped and polished the hard, gray granodiorite with extraordinary skill, suggesting that he was trained in a royal workshop. He has portrayed Sennuwy as a slender, graceful young woman, dressed in the tightly fitting sheath dress that was fashionable at the time. The carefully modeled planes of the face, framed by a long, thick, striated wig, convey a serene confidence and timeless beauty. Such idealized, youthful, and placid images characterize the first half of Dynasty 12 and hark back to the art of the Old Kingdom. Sennuwy sits poised and attentive on a solid, blocklike chair, with her left hand resting flat on her lap and her right hand holding a lotus blossom, a symbol of rebirth. Inscribed on the sides and base of the chair are hieroglyphic texts declaring that she is venerated in the presence of Osiris and other deities associated with the afterlife.

Sennuwy was the wife of a powerful provincial governor, Djefaihapi of Asyut, whose rock-cut tomb is the largest nonroyal tomb of the Middle Kingdom. Clearly, the couple had access to the finest artists and materials available. It is likely that this statue, along with a similar sculpture of Djefaihapi, was originally set up in the tomb chapel, although they may also have stood in a sanctuary. Both statues were discovered, however, far to the south at Kerma in Nubia, where they had been buried in the royal tumulus of a Nubian king who lived generations after Sennuwy's death. They must have been removed from their original location and exported to Nubia some three hundred years after they were made. Exactly how, why, and when these pieces of sculpture, along with numerous other Egyptian statues, found their way to Kerma, however, is still unknown.

ProvenanceFound in Sudan, Kerma, K III, hall A, but originally from Egypt. 1913: Excavated by the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of the Sudan. (Accession Date: July 2, 1914)

https://collections.mfa.org/.../statue-of-lady-sennuwy

 

Ancient Thebes Necropolis - Qurna,

 

LeszekZadlo

Ancient Thebes Necropolis - Qurna,

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Great hypostyle hall in Temple of Rameses III

 

Great hypostyle hall in Temple of Rameses III

Torque or Metal Collar

 

Torque or Metal Collar

This unusual metal collar, or torque, consists of beads fixed on a copper or bronze hoop. The white beads are alabaster, inlaid with quartz or red-painted glass. The black beads are stone or glass inlaid with gold.

The collar could be adjusted to fit different sized necks.

GOLD

EGYPTIAN MUSEUM

Inventary number JE 61939

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=15791

dibujo/tempera de escenas de la tumba de Qenamon

dibujo/tempera de escenas de la tumba de Qenamon
hechas por Nina de Garis Davies
Met Museum

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soul houses

This "Soul house" belongs to a category of terracotta objects which have been found in the modest tombs of Rifeh and which have the same function as an offering table. The model represents a rectangular house with a terrace which is equipped with two openings leading to the ground floor. The portico is composed of four pillars. In front of the portico, one notices offerings, executed in relief. It could be that the "soul houses" were a substitute in miniature for the large rock tombs of the high dignitaries.

Rifa

MIDDLE KINGDOM

KMKG - MRAH

Inventory number E.3176

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=493

W. F. Petrie, Gizeh and Rifeh, Londres 1907, pl. XVI A, nº 19

A. Endruweit, Städtischer Wohnbau im Ägypten, Berlin 1988, 52 n. 71

La tierra del toro apis. Dioses, Reyes y Hombres del Egipto Faraonica (Exposition), Pamplona 1997, 116

E. Warmenbol (Éd.), Ombres d'Égypte, le peuple de Pharaon (Exposition), Treignes 1999, 62 nº 7

Fl. Doyen, Habitations domestiques, L'archéologue 44 (1999) 4