The lid of the coffin of Queen Ahhotep.

The lid of the coffin of Queen Ahhotep. She is depicted wearing a heavy wig which culminates in curls, each with a blue circle in the centre. Her eyes are marked in white alabaster and the irises in obsidian. Country of Origin: Egypt. Culture: Ancient Egyptian. Date/Period: 18th Dynasty, reign of Ahmose, 1550 - 1525 BC. Place of Origin: Dra Abu el-Naga. Material/ Size: Wood, gold leaf, alabaster and obsidian, H= 212 cm. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive/ Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Location: 39

Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Period: Late Period, Saite
Dynasty: Dynasty 26
Reign: reign of Psamtik I–Amasis
Date: ca. 590 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Memphite Region, Saqqara, Tomb of Harkhebit
Medium: Greywacke
Dimensions: H. 256.5 (101 in); w. 127 (50 in) at shoulders; th. (of lid and base together) 132.1 cm (52 in)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1907
Accession Number: 07.229.1a, b

Description

Horkhebit was a "Royal Seal Bearer, Sole Companion, Chief Priest of the Shrines of Upper and Lower Egypt, and Overseer of the Cabinet" in early Dynasty 26. His tomb was a great shaft over sixty feet deep sunk into the desert and solid limestone bedrock in the Late Period cemetery that covers most of the area east of the Djoser complex at Saqqara. In a huge plain chamber at the bottom of the shaft, a rectangular rock core was left standing and hollowed out to house this anthropoid sarcophagus. When the tomb was excavated by the Egyptian government in 1902, the sarcophagus contained the remains of a badly decomposed gilded cedar coffin, and a mummy that wore a mask of gilded silver, gold finger and toe stalls, and numerous small amulets. Other canopic and shabti equipment accompanied the burial. The finds went to the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, while this sarcophagus was purchased from the Egyptian government by the Metropolitan Museum.
The sarcophagus is one of a group with plump, squarish broad faces, smooth unarticulated bodies, and slightly protruding feet that all originate in the Memphite area and date to the time around the reign of Psamtik II (ca. 595–589 B.C.); several of them may have been produced by the same workshop. Technically the sarcophagus is one of the masterpieces of late Egyptian hard-stone carving. The interiors of the extraordinarily rendered sunk-relief hieroglyphs and figures were left rough and may have been intended to be painted, perhaps in green. The long text on the lid comes from the Book of the Dead.
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harem

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Deir el-Medina, Tomb TT1, SENNEDJEM , son of Khabekhnet and Tahennu

 

The first character seated on the left is Tutuja, with behind him is his brother Mesu. Tutuja stretches out his hand towards a small table containing breads, only roughly drawn in outline, before him. The couple seated behind them are Khabekhnet and his wife Sahti.

All four of these characters are seated, feet on a raised carpet or cushion, on high-backed chairs; the legs of which end in lion paws. The men all have a goatee beard, wear long pleated skirts and a headband, also an ointment cone, but no jewellery. They hold tightly in their right hand a piece of cloth. Mesu and Khabekhnet both hold a open lotus blossom to their nose. Sahti lovingly holds her husband's shoulders. She is clothed in a long pleated dress, wearing earrings and a beautiful tripartite wig surmounted with an ointment cone pierced by an opened blue lotus.

Two small girls stand under the second and fourth chairs. They carry the sidelock of childhood, but are fully clothed in long pleated dresses, which suggests that they are pubescent. The first is named Taia, and the second (view) Henutweret.

Behind these seated hosts advance eight characters (view), six men, a woman and a girl. None, except the woman, have an ointment cone on the head. The men are in short pleated skirts, the woman and the girl wear a long pleated dress. The woman, like the previous one, has a beautiful tripartite wig. All bring gifts which are, without exception, of natural products, gifts of the Nile.

The first man : Bunakhtef, brings two stems of papyrus in bloom.

The second : Rahotep, a papyrus and a duck from the Nile.

The woman : Irunefer, a papyrus and a small oval vial with a long neck, containing the water from the beginning of the flood.

The third and fourth man, standing side-by-side : Khonsu and Ramose, offer the shoots of papyrus and a duck.

The fifth and sixth, again side-by-side : Anhohep and Kanekhu, a duck, a bouquet and two papyrus stems.

The girl who finishes the parade is not named. She, like the other two girls, has a sidelock of youth. She holds a papyrus stem in both hands.

Deir el-Medina, Tomb TT1, SENNEDJEM , son of Khabekhnet and Tahennu

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Deir el-Medina, Tomb TT1, SENNEDJEM , son of Khabekhnet and Tahennu

Collar de cuentas redondeadas azules

Collar de cuentas redondeadas azules

Este collar azul fue encontrado durante las excavaciones de J. Garstang en Abydos. Está formado de cuentas redondeadas de fayenza azul. La pieza data del Imperio Medio.

 ABYDOS

REINO MEDIO

E. Warmenbol (Éd.), Ombres d'Égypte, le peuple de Pharaon (Exposition), Treignes 1999, 124 nº 155


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human figurine

Present location	RIJKSMUSEUM VAN OUDHEDEN [06/001] LEIDEN
Inventory number	AB 2
Dating	NECHO II/WEHEMIBRE
Archaeological Site	UNKNOWN
Category	HUMAN FIGURINE
Material	BRONZE; GOLD
Technique	GOLD FOILED; SOLDERED
Height	22 cm

Bibliography

• Leemans, C., Aegyptische Monumenten van het Nederlandse Museum van Oudheden te Leiden I, Leiden 1840, 2, pl. IX, 675.
• Roeder, G., Ägyptische Bronzefiguren, Berlin 1956, 249, 257, 259.
• Akkermans, P., et al., Brons uit de Oudheid, Amsterdam 1992, nr. 4.
• Schneider, H. D. en M. J. Raven, De Egyptische Oudheid, Den Haag 1981, nr. 136.

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The Silver Trumpet of Tutankhamun

 

This silver trumpet with its golden mouthpiece was found with a decorated wooden core inside, probably to protect the thin metal from distortion, or to help in cleaning inside its tube with a piece of cloth.

The decoration on the bell shows incised scenes of the gods Amun-Re and Re-Horakhty before Ptah.

From experiments, the sound produced was described as "raucous and powerful" and it is likely that the trumpet signal code was a rhythmic one on a single pitch.

Present location	EGYPTIAN MUSEUM [01/001] CAIRO EM
Inventory number	JE 62007
Dating	TUTANKHAMUN/NEBKHEPERURE
Archaeological Site	VALLEY OF THE KINGS
Category	TRUMPET
Material	GOLD; SILVER; WOOD
Technique	HAMMERING; CHASING

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