Middle Kingdom
This relief was originally part of the left side of a massive door lintel that depicted the pharaoh Senwosret I (left) performing a running ritual in front of the fertility god Min (right). Running rituals are generally connected with the Sed festival, a renewal rite that the king ideally celebrated after thirty years on the throne. The vertical inscription in front of Min includes the promise that the deity will grant the king such a milestone. The king carries an oar and an angled nautical object, which can be associated with the Sed festival; behind him are three semicircular objects representing the symbolic markers between which he runs. The piece is notable for its beautiful modeling and extremely fine detail, characteristics of the best Twelfth Dynasty relief work. Read More »
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Khui walking Iupu - Middle Kingdom, Assiut (Siut)
The back of a chair from Tutankhamon's tomb. It depicts the god of eternity, Heh, who is himself seated on the symbol for gold, and holding palm branch symbols representing years. They rest upon Heket (Heqt, Heqet), a frog goddess of fertility and rebirth, whose image is also the symbol for one million. She is seated on Shen symbols/hieroglyphs, which represent eternity.
a drawing of the Abydos King List
Early 19th Dynasty, New Kingdom
Hathor - illustration from Pantheon Egyptien (1823-1825) by Leon Jean Joseph Dubois (1780-1846)
Hatshepsut's Cartouche, from one of her obelisks
Early 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom
Hatshepsut's Cartouche
Early 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom
The Ancient Egyptians loved puns. It was said, "Gold is like dust in Egypt, but silver is as rare as the pomegranate," making this silver pomegranate vase of Tutankhamon's a visual pun.
A box of Tutankhamon's by Harry Burton, the brilliant photographer of the Tutankhamon expedition. He created the exhaustive photographic survey of the tomb, and of every object within it.
Some of the earliest silver objects unearthed in Egypt are this rare pair of silver bracelets, belong to Queen Hetepheres I, inlaid with semi-precious stones in the form of a butterfly. Made of silver, turquoise, lapis lazuli, and carnelian.
Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, ca. 2575-2550 BCE. From the Tomb of Hetepheres I, G 7000X near the Great Pyramid of Giza. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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