Scarab Inscribed King of Upper and Lower Egypt Maatkare, Having Dominion, ca. 1479–1458 B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Egyptian Art
Rogers Fund, 1927 Size: L. 1.9 × W. 1.4 cm (¾ × 9/16 in.) Medium: Steatite (glazed)
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Red granite lion of Amenhotep III
From Soleb, Sudan
18th Dynasty, around 1370 BCE
A lion with many names….
This lion is one of a pair collected from the Meroitic site of Gebel Barkal by Lord Prudhoe, which is why they are sometimes called ‘Prudhoe lions’. Originally from the Temple of Soleb in Nubia, the lions acted as guardian figures before a temple built by Amenhotep III (1390-1352 BCE), an elaborate monument to the cult of the king as a deified 'lord of Nubia’, embodied by the lion.
The inscriptions on both lions reflect their re-use by many rulers. Originally inscribed by Amenhotep III, they were renewed by Tutankhamun (1336-1327 BCE), along with an indication that they were moved by his successor Ay (1327-1323 BCE). In the third century BCE the Meroitic ruler Amanislo moved the lions south to his city of Gebel Barkal and engraved his names on them. Read More »
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One of the two ‘Prudhoe Lions’ of the British Museum. A pair in opposing positions were made by Amenhotep III and installed at Soleb; one was renewed and inscribed by his grandson Tutankhamon; the Kushite ruler Amanislo moved them further South to Gebel Barkal, and Amanislo’s cartouches were added.
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Red Granite Lion from Gebel Barkal in the Sudan, Inscription by Tutankhamun 1400 BCE. British Museum, London
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Red Granite Lion from Gebel Barkal in the Sudan, Inscription by Tutankhamun 1400 BCE. British Museum, London
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Ancient Egyptian satirical ostracon - a mouse oversees his cat servant’s punishment of a human
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Cat and Mouse, Egyptian, dates to ca.1295-1075 B.C.E.
An ostracon is a smooth flake of stone (or, less often, pottery) that the Egyptians used instead of expensive papyrus for drawing or writing. This example of an “animal fable” vignette shows a plump, middle-aged mouse seated on an elaborate stool and holding a drinking bowl, a flower (or a fish skeleton?), and a piece of cloth. Before him stands his servant, a scrawny cat, who fans him while presenting a trussed fowl and a bolt of cloth.
A number of such scenes have survived showing animals acting as humans but with their natural roles reversed. They may have illustrated popular fables, or they may have been intended as satires on upper-class life in the Ramesside Period, when almost all were made.
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ok i finished my thing for tomorrow so it is time to inflict horrors upon you all
WELCOME TO EGYPT, HOME TO SUCH WONDERS AS
TWO-LEGGED CAT SURFING ON A KNIFE
HE WAS FORETOLD
THIS ABSOLUTE MOOD
3 SNAKES IN A TRENCHCOAT
A FUCKING GREMLIN
LEAF DUDE
I DON'T EVEN WANNA ASK
BIG DICK ENERGY
DECAPITATED ANUBIS (WITH A KNIFE)
AND A FRIEND (?)
WELCOME BACK WEARY TRAVELLER. MAY I INTEREST YOU IN
NOT ACTUALLY A FRIEND (SURPRISE!)
DOUBLE ENDED WORM
TWO HEADED SNAKE ON A TABLE
SNAKEMAN, WORLD'S WORST SUPERHERO
WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS
A MOOD, THE BOVINE SEQUEL
THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO THE TRILOGY
The Gerzeh Palette, or “Hathor Palette”, “Cow-Head Palette”. has topics containing five stars, a pair of horns, and a stylized “head”.
This unusual schist palette was part of a Predynastic funerary assemblage which also contained ordinary vessels.
It has an oval shape that widens slightly towards the top and it is pierced so that it could be suspended.
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Anubis
Nice selection of some less frequently seen depictions of Anup.
ETA: Although the yellow painted relief is actually Wepwawet.
Reblogging my own post because tumblr has deleted the original for no good reason, as anyone can see. I’d gone back and edited it while it still existed to change my caption to: “Anubis - all but the yellowy one, which Big Bad Jackal informs me is Wepwawet. Had Wepwawet’s "pathway” symbol been present, I would have recognized him.“
Life size seated statue of the goddess Hathor, depicted with cow horns and solar disk, from the Luxor Temple.
New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1391-1353 BC. Now in the Luxor Museum.
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