Relief of farmer leading donkeys. Private funerary Mastaba of Mereruka. Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, ca. 2345 BC. Ancient Memphis, Saqqara.

Relief depicting king Amenhotep III on his horse chariot. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1391-1353 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

Gold dagger and sheath, from the Tomb of Tutankhamun.

 

Bullock among papyrus reeds (faience). Amarna Period, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1353-1336 BC. Now at the Louvre.

Selection of unguent vases made from breccia, diorite, blue marble and alabaster. Middle Kingdom, ca. 2030-1640 BC. Now at the Louvre.

Girdle of Princess Sithathor.

This girdle of the Princess Sithathor is made of eight gold, half-open cowry shells. The ones at each end have flat reverses, and were joined by means of grooves to serve as a clasp, fastening the girdle when they slid one into the other. The shells are separated from each other by rhomboidal polychrome beads of carnelian, feldspar, and lapis lazuli.

Two Wadjet Eye Amulets “Eye of Horus”, (obsidian) top: 1.9 cm, bottom: 1.7 cm.

Small seated statuette of Pepi I, reigned 2332-2287 BC, with Horus Falcon (alabaster), 26.5 x 15.7 cms. Pepi I was the third king of the 6th dynasty of the old kingdom of ancient Egypt. Now at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

 

Handle of a knife carved with battle scenes, from Gebel el-Arak, Naqada II, Prehistoric Egypt, ca. 3500-3100 BC, (flint and hippopotamus ivory). Now at the Louvre.

 

Egyptian civilization, Protodynastic Period, Dynasty II. Heb-Sed alabaster vase. From Saqqara.