martes, 26 de enero de 2021

Hemira

Hemira, conocida por sus amigos con el apodo de Hemi, fue una sacerdotisa de la diosa Hathor que vivió durante el Primer período intermedio.
De esta mujer conocemos muy pocas cosas, por algunos textos jeroglíficos que aparecen en la falsa puerta, procedente de su tumba en Busiris sabemos algunos detalles de la vida de esta mujer, los cuales iremos desvelando.

 En la falsa puerta aparecen algunos datos, pero como comenté anteriormente no muchos, y la mayoria de ellos se refieren a los suministros de provisiones para el templo de Hathor, por eso poco se sabe de ella aunque por las caracteristicas de esa puerta falsa podemos apreciar algunas cosas.
También comenté que fue una sacerdotisa de la diosa Hathor, es decir, una diosa menor en la zona. Busiris era la capital del IX nomo, en el Delta central y Per Usir significa lugar donde vive o reside Osiris. Al ser esta zona muy importante para las peregrinaciones de numerosos egipcios, era pues una zona en la que el culto importante estaba dirigido a este dios y los cultos a otros dioses era de menor importancia. Y aquí aparece esta mujer como sacerdotisa de Hathor.

 las tres figuras las de Hemira, y que representan toda su vida porque la anciana es la última pero la anterior es la figura de la Hemira "madura",  al menos yo lo veo así, aunque cuando tengamos todos los relieves de la puerta falsa sabremos más.
Además tampoco puede ser una hija o familiar de Hemira (la chiquilla sentada) porque parece que no se citan ni esposo ni a nadie de la familia.

 Casi siempre se habla de los poderosos, de reyes y reinas, nobles , etc por eso hablar un poco de Hemira, es decir, de alguien no importante y que simplemente fue una humilde sacerdotisa que vivió toda una vida dedicada a su función sacerdotal…. y por eso me gustaría poder colgar la foto completa de la falsa puerta, que por cierto hay una inscripción (citada por Wilkinson) , en la que ella pide a todas las personas que pudieran hacer una visita a su tumba : “Por lo que respecta a toda esa gente que diga: pan para Hemi en su tumba, yo soy un espíritu poderoso y los preservaré de todo mal”.

 fuente foto: 

https://www.meisterdrucke.uk/.../False-door-from-the-tomb...

 

 

 


 

domingo, 24 de enero de 2021

Shoulders and neck of a large figure of Dagi

Shoulders and neck of a large figure of Dagi

Period: Middle Kingdom

Dynasty: Dynasty 11

Reign: late reign of Mentuhotep II or later

Date: ca. 2010–2000 B.C. or ca. 2000–1981 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Dagi (TT 103, MMA 807), MMA excavations, 1911–12

Medium: Limestone, paint

Dimensions: H. 19.5 × W. 40.5 cm (7 11/16 × 15 15/16 in.)

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1912

Accession Number: 12.180.246

As a royal treasurer and vizier, Dagi was the highest official in the country under one or more kings of Dynasty 11. The fragmentary remains of what was once the elegant decoration of his tomb, unfortunately destroyed in antiquity, bear witness to his importance, and to the skill of the artists attached to the court of the Mentuhotep kings.

What remains of this block of relief depicts a large figure of Dagi himself, perhaps seated at a table of offerings. He wears an elaborate "broad" collar, called a wesekh, composed of cylinder beads with drop-shaped beads along the edge (see 22.1.249 for an actual example). Visible on either side of his neck is the cord of the cylinder seal that he would have used for official business.

Met Museum

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vessel

 Slender vessel of stone with heavy veining. It has a high centre of gravity with steep shoulders on which are very small suspension handles.
KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM
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ichneumon


The ichneumon or the mongoose is known to be the enemy of snakes and can fight them and cut them into pieces. It was one of the sacred animals in the Late Period and was considered to be a principal supporter of the king and the people against the snake Apophis, the god of evil and darkness.

The god of the sun, Re-Atum, could be transformed into an ichneumon, to destroy darkness and evil. Thus, ...the ichneumon was worshipped by the people as the "figure of Re." It was also one of the spirits of the underworld who protected the deceased against snakes during his journey.

This statue might have been placed in a shrine or niche in a cult place in the cemetery to protect the deceased against evil (snakes) and darkness. The ichneumon is depicted standing on a column with its forelegs raised, as if warding off evil and snakes. The body is incised with horizontal lines and spots to simulate hair; the face is well defined and realistically detailed.

SAQQARA NECROPOLIS

EGYPTIAN MUSEUM

JE 8662

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Figure of a Girl Holding a Drum

 


Figure of a Girl Holding a Drum
The barrel-shaped drum may have been introduced to Egypt from the south. Egyptian images often show such drums being played by Nubian or Sudanese soldiers in Egyptian employ. In images dating to before Dynasty XXV (circa 775–653 B.C.), the drummers are always men. This rare three-dimensional image of a female drummer could thus be as early as Dynasty XXV, when women drummers first appeared in reliefs. However, it also has some stylistic paralle...ls with reliefs of the fourth century B.C.
MEDIUM Bronze
•Place Made: Egypt
DATES ca. 712-305 B.C.E.
DYNASTY XXVI Dynasty to XXXI Dynasty
PERIOD Third Intermediate Period-Macedonian Period
DIMENSIONS Height: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)
Brooklyn Museum

Head of Statuette

Head of Statuette

The small, finely made head from a statuette, probably of a priest. The head is made of haematite, in the style of the Old Kingdom.

Present location
LIVERPOOL MUSEUM [03/061] LIVERPOOL
Inventory number
1973.2.294
Dating
NEW KINGDOM
Archaeological Site
UNKNOWN
Category
FIGURINE/STATUETTE
Material
HAEMATITE/RED OCHRE
Technique
POLISHED
Height
3 cm
Width
3 cm

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Papiros veterinarios. F.L. Griffith, Hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob.

 

Papiros veterinarios. F.L. Griffith, Hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob.


Papiro de Lahun VI

 


Fragmento de los Papiros de Lahun. Papiro de Lahun VI, tratado médico de la Dinastía XII. (University College de Londres)

Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862-1934) - http://www.etana.org/coretexts/15146.pdf

Papyrus Kahun VI. 1, pages 1 and 2; medical papyrus 12th Dynasty

Stela of Ahmose honouring Tetisheri

English: Stela of Ahmose honouring Tetisheri. Found in the ruins of Tetisheri's pyramid in the complex of Ahmose's pyramid at Abydos, Egypt.
Čeština: Stéla zobrazující faraona Ahmose I., jak přináší dary královně Tetišeri

 

shabti

 SHABTI
Inventory number E 100
DEIR EL-BAHARI
FAIENCE
21ST DYNASTY
Tnt-wAs-Ar-kn
Wsir Tnt-sr-kn(A)
MUSEU NACIONAL DE ARQUEOLOGIA
Lisbon


Egyptian, stele, Priest burning incense before Ra-Horakhty-Atum, ca. 900 BC Louvre

 

Egyptian, stele, Priest burning incense before Ra-Horakhty-Atum, ca. 900 BC

Louvre

Estatua de cobre del Faraón Pepy I


 Estatua de cobre del Faraón Pepy I, de la VI dinastía, considerada la escultura metálica más antigua de la historia. Fue hallada en Hieracómpolis

Museo de el Cairo

jueves, 14 de enero de 2021

ostracon

  • Numéro d'inventaireE..06569
Nom de l'objetOstracon
GéographieLieu de découverte:Dayr al-Madinah
Lieu de production:Égypte
MatièreCalcaire
  • DimensionsHauteur: 5,6 cm, Largeur: 11,2 cm, Profondeur: 1,1 cm
  • PropriétaireMusées royaux d'art et d'histoire/Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis

 

Templo de Lúxor

 


Templo de Lúxor

TT255

Theban Tomb TT255 at Dra Abu el-Naga belongs to the 18th dynasty official Roy who served as a royal scribe during Horemheb’s reign. It features vividly painted scenes of Roy and and his wife, Nebtawy, in the presence of various Egyptian gods in the afterlife.



Chapelle funéraire de Neferirtenef

Chapelle funéraire de Neferirtenef (détail), calcaire, Saqqara, 2400 av J-C

Cleopatra I. El Kab

Cleopatra I. El Kab



miércoles, 6 de enero de 2021

Gebelein predynastic mummy


Gebelein predynastic mummy in the British Museum dating from 3400 BC
public domain
La cabeza de EA 32751 mostrando el cabello conservado. Foto tomada en 2011.

 

Hatshepshut

The Female Pharaoh Hatshepsut
ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
New Kingdom
This graceful, life-size statue depicts Hatshepsut in female attire, but she wears the nemes–headcloth, a royal attribute usually reserved for the reigning king. In the columns of text inscribed beside her legs on the front of the throne, she has already adopted the throne name Maatkare, but her titles and epithets are still feminine. Thus, she is "Lady of the Two Lands" and "Bodily Daughter of Re." On the back of the throne, part of an enigmatic scene is preserved which probably consisted of two back-to-back goddesses. The goddess has the body of a pregnant hippopotamus with feline legs and a crocodile tail appears behind her legs. Although this resembles Taweret, the goddess who protects women and children, it is probably Ipi, a royal protector who appears in the same position on a statue of the Dynasty 17 king Sebekemsaf I (about 1575 B.C.) in the British Museum.
The pose of the statue, seated with hands flat on the knees, indicates that it was intended to receive offerings and it was probably placed in one of the Temple's chapels. In more public areas, such as the processional way into the temple, colossal sphinxes (31.3.166), kneeling (30.3.1) and standing statues (28.3.18) represent Hatshepsut as the ideal king, a young man in the prime of life. This does not mean that she was trying to fool anyone into thinking that she was a man. She was merely following traditions established more than 1500 years earlier. In fact, the inscriptions on the masculine statues include her personal name, Hatshepsut, which means "foremost of noble women," or a feminine grammatical form that indicates her gender. She had also been in the public eye since childhood, first as the daughter of king Thutmose I, then as principal wife of her half-brother Thutmose II, then as regent to her nephew/step-son Thutmose III, and finally as pharaoh. Only one other statue of Hatshepsut depicts here entirely as a woman (30.3.3).
In the early 1920s the Museum's Egyptian Expedition excavated numerous fragments of this statue near Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Bahri in western Thebes. The torso, however, had been found in 1869 and was in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. In 1998, the Leiden torso and the MET's portions of the statue were reunited for the first time since the original was destroyed in about 1440 B.C.
Title: The Female Pharaoh Hatshepsut
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Reign: Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
Date: ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Senenmut Quarry, MMA
excavations, 1926–29
Medium: Granite
Dimensions: H. 170 × W. 41 × D. 90 cm, 620.5 kg (66 15/16 × 16 1/8 × 35 7/16 in., 1368 lb.) (as reassembled)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1929, Torso lent by Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (L.1998.80)
Accession Number: 29.3.3

 

Excavations at Oxyrhynchus, in late 19th century Egypt© The Egypt Exploration Society

Excavations at Oxyrhynchus, in late 19th century Egypt© The Egypt Exploration Society

 

sábado, 2 de enero de 2021

Fragmentary decree of king Neferkauhor


Fragmentary decree of king Neferkauhor, appointing the brother of Idy (the latter being the vizier and overseer of Upper Egypt) to a post in the Temple of Min at Coptos. Reign of Neferkauhor, 7th-8th Dynasty, First Intermediate Period. Acc. No. 14.7.12

viernes, 1 de enero de 2021

Carved Serpentine Mace-head


Carved Serpentine Mace-head. Among the scatter of objects in the Hierakonpolis 'Main Deposit' were groups sorted according to type. Hundreds of stone mace-heads were piled together. This is a serpentine mace-head carved with a row of hunting dogs and lions. Hierakonpolis E.367 Bibliography J.E. Quibell, "Hierakonpolis. Part 1. Plates of Discoveries in 1898" (Egyptian Research Account, Bernard Quaritch, London, 1900) Pg. 8 "PL.XIX. Dyn. 0. 1. Limestone vase, with developed drawing (see PL.XX,1). The hieroglyphs on the jar appear to read, The Horus Scorpion, apparently the name of the Scorpion-King ... "6 is a line of animals carved around a sceptre-head of grey steatite. The three dogs chasing three lions are admirably carved, the best piece of naturalistic work of this time." PL. XIX J.E. Quibell and F.W. Green, "Hierakonpolis. Part II" Egyptian Research Account Fifth Memoir (Bernard Quaritch, London, 1902) Pg. 38 "PL. XIX ... 6. Development of the design round a steatite macehead, the view of which is given in on PL. XXIII. The animals are dogs wearing collars and name-plates (?) alternating with lions."

Hierakonpolis Male statuettes Some males are shown naked except for a penis sheath suspended from a belt around the figure's waist. One of the men wears an elaborate spotted garment. His left arm is held across his chest and his right hand is pierced to allow another object to be attached 'Main Deposit', Hierakonpolis E.180, E.174, E.176, E.301 (Ashmolean)

Hierakonpolis Male statuettes Some males are shown naked except for a penis sheath suspended from a belt around the figure's waist. One of the men wears an elaborate spotted garment. His left arm is held across his chest and his right hand is pierced to allow another object to be attached 'Main Deposit', Hierakonpolis E.180, E.174, E.176, E.301 (Ashmolean)



Hierakompolis


 

Hierakonpolis ivory head

Quibell, James Edward, 1867-1935; Green, F. W; Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942 - Hierakonpolis Published in 1900

Hierakonpolis ivory head


 

Quibell, James Edward, 1867-1935; Green, F. W; Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942 - Hierakonpolis Published in 1900 Hierakonpolis ivory objects

 

Quibell, James Edward, 1867-1935; Green, F. W; Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942 - Hierakonpolis Published in 1900
Hierakonpolis ivory objects

Medjed

 


Two vignettes thought to represent Medjed. Greenfield papyrus, British Museum.

Clay model of four cattle dating from 3500 BC. Found at El-Amra in Egypt, now in the British Museum.

Clay model of four cattle dating from 3500 BC. Found at El-Amra in Egypt, now in the British Museum.