Thursday 19 November 2020

Schist Statue of Osiris.

The oldest of full scorpions.

Model of a scorpion carved from serpentine. From Nekhen (”Hierakonpolis”), Egypt. Early Dynastic Period, First or Second Dynasty. ca. 3150 to 2686 BC. Now in the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.

Inner Sarcophagus of Mummy Painted wood. Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664-30 BC. Now in Casa Museo Lodovico Pogliaghi, Varese, Italy.

Humanoid Khepri Scarab A rare model of the Egyptian scarab beetle creator god Khepri, with a human head and arms emerging from a scarab’s exoskeleton. This humanoid scarab is most likely dates to the Late Period, ca. 664-332 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin.


Pharaoh Horemheb is ploughing land in the Fields of Aaru.

 


The preparation of lily perfume.

Relief depicting women squeezing oil from lily flowers in a press for use in perfume. Fragment from the decoration of a tomb (limestone). Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305-30 BC. Now in the Louvre.

Tomb Chapel of Meryrenefer Qar.

Meryrenefer was an official probably during the reign of Pepi II. He was the “Overseer of the Pyramid Towns of Khufu and Menkaure”, the “Inspector of wab-priests of the Pyramid of Khafre” and “Tenant of the Pyramid of Pepi I. However, he is better known to us as Qar (or Kar). He was married to Gefi, who was a "Prophetess of Hathor”.

Mastaba of Qar tomb (G 7101). Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, ca. 2494-2345 BC. Eastern Cemetery at Giza.

 


Relief depicting Alexander the Great before the ithyphallic Min-Amun, God of fertility, detail of a wall relief from the Barque Shrine of Alexander the Great, Sanctuary of Amun, Luxor Temple.

Pectoral of Osiris, Isis and Nephthys.

 Looks at first glance to be presenting the goddesses Wadjet and Nekhbet, the symbols of Upper and Lower Egypt, standing on either side of Osiris. However, the hieroglyphic inscriptions beside them state that they are in fact Isis (next to the vulture) and Nephthys (next to the cobra). 

From the Tomb of Tutankhamun. Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.


Relief depicting a scribe Detail of a wall carving from the Mastaba of Akhethotep, who was senior court official during the rules of Djedkare Isesi and Unas. Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, ca. 2494-2345 BC. Saqqara Necropolis.

 

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