Friday 16 October 2020

Image of Queen Nefertari Meritmut.

 Detail of a painted carving depicts Queen Nefertari Meritmut, the first of the Great Royal Wives of Ramesses the Great. Nefertari’s face is rendered with shading to add depth to the figure, an unusual practice in Egyptian paintings. Tomb of Nefertari Valley of the Queens, West Thebes.

His necklace is from the possession of King Tutankhamun.


 

Seti I Goddess Hathor Louvre Museum Paris.

The great king Ramses II, the righteous son of Egypt .

One of the activities you can do in Luxor is to watch the sunrise from the sky.

Dendera temple scene. It is one of the best-preserved Egyptian temples, thanks to the fact that it remained buried by sand until it was unearthed by August Mariette in the mid-19th century.

Storeroom in the Ramses II temple , Abu Simbel.

Horus is inscribed with the body of a lion in the Kom Ombo temple.

A baby mummy covered with a layer of gold.

Preserved in the Egyptian Museum

It was discovered in Akhmim, Sohag Governorate, in southern Egypt

The surprising thing about this mummy is that the child's innocence still appears on him even after his mummification

It's the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.


One of the sticks of King Tutankhamun decorated with two representations of the king's enemies. A hairy Asian wears clothes decorated with ribbons and with circular designs and flowers. His hands, face and feet are made of ivory to imitate his white skin.

Armlets of Ramesses II.

Gold armlets of embossed gold and lapis lazuli, bearing the name of King Ramesses II. Its body consist of a large chunk of lapis lazuli framed by broad bands of gold plate. The two heads and the duck´s spread out tail were made of gold decorated with small soldered beads and wire.

From Bubastis (Tell-Basta). Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.



Pectoral of Tutankhamun with the Winged Scarab.

This beautiful pendant illustrates the throne name of King Tutankhamun, “Neb- kheprew-re.” The central element is the scarab “Khepri” made of a fine piece of lapis lazuli, and three strokes of the plural “sign in hieroglyphs” below it.

Egyptian Glazed Composition Winged Scarab Necklace, Late Period - Ptolemaic, 664-30 BC.

Ancient Egyptian mummies at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.

Statue of the jackal-headed god Anubis. Late Period, 26th Dynasty.

Head of King Amenemhat III.

 Realistic style portrait of king Amenemhat III, wearing the Hedjet White Crown of Upper Egypt, made out of greywacke.

The Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, reign of Amenemhat III, ca. 1860-1814 BC. Now in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. 

Statuette of God Ptah.

Bronze statuette of Ptah standing and holding Was sceptre. The eyes still contain traces of gold plating that gives him an intense expression. Ptah is the chief god of Memphis, patron of artists and craftsmen. 

Late Period, ca. 664-332 BC. Now in the Royal Museum of Mariemont.

Boats with fruit rowing through the water.

 Relief depicting boats with fruit rowing through the water-filled with fish. Painted limestone from the Tomb of Montuemhat (TT34). 

Third Intermediate Period, 25th Dynasty, ca. 744-656 BC. El-Assasif, Theban necropolis. Now in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago.

Finger Ring.

 Gold finger ring with bezel inscribed with hieroglyphs that read, “Isis, great mother goddess over all the gods”. 

The New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479-1425 BC. Now in the World Museum, National Museums Liverpool.

Thoth.

Thoth is the Egyptian god of writing, magic, wisdom, and the moon. He was one of the most important gods of ancient Egypt alternately said to be self-created or born of the seed of Horus from the forehead of Set. As the son of these two deities, who represented order and chaos respectively, he was also the god of equilibrium and balance and associated closely with both the principle of ma'at (divine balance) and the goddess Ma'at who personified this principle. 

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