Through the veil of time, a woman’s gaze meets ours—serene, knowing, eternal. This is a woman, whose memory lingers upon the fragile remnants of her cartonnage, linen-wrapped shell that once cradled her in death. Hers is a face preserved in the exquisite art of the Romano-Egyptian mummy portrait, a testament to both beauty and remembrance....
The goddess Nut is illustrated with a laden fruit tree behind her. Her hair is long and in tresses, and she is adorned with various jewels such as a chaplet, floral collar, and a necklace with pendants. Her arms are decorated with golden bracelets in the form of snakes. A vertical register of hieroglyphs with...
The Avenue of Sphinxes, also known as The King’s Festivities Road or Rams Road, is a 2.7 km (1.7 mi) path that connects Karnak Temple to Luxor Temple with sphinxes and ram-headed statues lining both flanks. Construction on the Avenue of Sphinxes began in the New Kingdom era and was completed in the Late Period...
This statue depicts a king, almost certainly Akhenaten, and is made from yellow limestone. The king holds the heqa scepter (crook and flail), and is seated upon a cushioned throne, wearing a pleated linen kilt, and a striped nemes headdress with the royal insignia of a uraeus upon the centre of his forehead. Often overlooked...
This painted limestone statue of a woman named Ta-Seket was discovered within Tomb Y 524 at Hu. Hu, Huw or Hiw (Arabic: هُو, Coptic: ϩⲱ, ϩⲟⲩ)is the modern name of an Egyptian town on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the 7th Nome of Upper Egypt. Hu was the centre...
The Ba is a part of a person’s non-physical spiritual nature. After death, the Ba might leave the tomb, but it had to return to the tomb on a regular basis to reconnect with the mummy. The Ba was frequently shown as a bird with a human head, and occasionally with human arms. This Ba...
This statue of a man dating from the Late 5th Dynasty-Early 6th Dynasty, c. 2430-2195 B.C., is made of limestone and pigment of black and red still remains quite prominently upon the piece. Despite the lack of titles, the piece is clearly of the Old Kingdom style; rigid form, layered spiral-style cropped wig, a pleated...
Originally described as a ‘linen belt’ but since at least 1913 it has been called the ‘Ramesses Girdle’. Paintings of Ramesses III show him wearing similar long lengths of cloth wrapped several times around the chest in a herringbone fashion, like a girdle, before being fastened around the waist. Cartouches of Ramesses III were inscribed...
Referred to as Asqanu in Egyptian texts and among the cities revolting against Ramesses II. Scenes of the battle for Ashkelon (including the one shown here) are shown on the walls of Ramesses’ temple at Karnak. The scene shows many activities taking place at once. The army of Ashkelon is being defeated in the center,...
The inner coffin lid of Henuttawy is painted yellow all over, imitating royal coffins made of solid gold or gilded wood. The pectoral is only slightly less elaborate than the one on her outer lid (25.3.182a, b). Its main feature is a large scarab that pushes a sun disk upward to symbolize the rising sun....
