Thursday 22 October 2020

Relief depicting a king and a queen .

Dynasty: 18th Dynasty

Reign: Amenhotep IV / Akhenaten

Geography: Middle Egypt, Amarna

Medium: Limestone

Present location: Egyptian Museum, Berlin.

Tuna Al-Gabal necropolis.

 In 2019 Amazing discovery in Tuna Al-Gabal necropolis, Minya: A limestone royal statue in the shape of a sphinx. It is 35 cm tall and 55 cm length.

Golden bracelet . With lapis lazuli. Tomb of Psusennes I.

One of 22 bracelets found on the arms of Psusennes I.

Now in the Egyptian Museum Cairo.

Psusennes I was the third pharaoh of the 21st Dynasty who ruled from Tanis between 1047–1001 BC. His throne name, Akheperre Setepenamun, translates as "Great are the Manifestations of Ra, chosen of Amun." He was the son of Pinedjem I and Henuttawy, Ramesses XI's daughter by Tentamun.

He married his sister Mutnedjmet.

Great king Ramses Memphis open air museum.

The newly discovered, well-preserved tomb of Wahtye from 4500 years ago .

“There is only one god, my father. I can approach him by day, by night” looks like Pharaoh Akhenaten?

 

A colossal granite sphinx of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut.

 


A colossal granite sphinx of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut who ruled Egypt from 1479 to 1458 BCE during the 18th Dynasty. This sculpture, which weighs over seven tons, dates to the time of the joint reign of Hatshepsut, and her nephew and successor Thutmose III. It was one of several sphinxes that guarded her mortuary temple in Deir el-Bahari, located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Luxor. Well into his independent reign Thutmose III ordered Hatshepsut's statues to be smashed. The many fragments of this sphinx and several of her other sculptures were found in a quarry near the mortuary temple. This piece was reassembled by the conservators of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, and it is now in this museum. Photo (edited): The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Wooden face to be attached to a coffin, eyes and brows originally inlaid. New Kingdom,18th Dynasty.

The hyperarid climate of the desert in Egypt is perfect for preserving wood. Although Egypt has no forests today, there were wooded areas in antiquity, and, despite a lack of larger strong timbers, there were active industries of carpentry including boat-making. There is no other ancient civilisation from which so many wooden artefacts have survived.

The main trees that grew in Egypt in Pharaonic times of which the wood was used in carpentry and joinery were the acacia, the sycomore-fig, and the tamarisk. The wood of other trees, however, was also sometimes used, particularly that of the date- palm, the dum-palm, the sidder, the persea and the willow.

Ma’at wearing feather of truth.


A fragment of a relief depicting the upper part of an image of the goddess Ma’at wearing ostrich feather of truth, a tripartite wig, a wide usekh collar, bracelets, and a tunic supported by shoulder-straps. Her head is surmounted by her emblem, a feather, the symbol of truth and justice.

Ma'at was the symbol of the cosmic order and it was believed that there were two of them: one for the living and one for the dead.

The New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Seti I, ca. 1290-1279 BC. Now in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence.

Wonderful accessories.

 The upper part of a wooden statuette of Lady Tiye, Mistress of the Harim sometime during the reigns of King Amenhotep III and/or Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) during the 18th Dynasty (circa 1390-1349 BCE).

She wears an elaborate wig, a tightly fitting dress, and a beautiful necklace made of gold, semi-precious stones and glass.

This 24-centimeter-high masterpiece (41.2.10a) is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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