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Tag: Middle Kingdom

Model of a Cattle Census

August 11, 2022August 11, 2022 - by Egypt Museum

This large model shows a courtyard where the inspection of cattle took place. Meketre, his son, and four scribes sit under a columned canopy with scribes and guards standing nearby. …

Diadem of Princess Khnumit

August 11, 2022August 11, 2022 - by Egypt Museum

This diadem, or royal headband, is formed of a series of horizontal and vertical decorations made of gold with inlays of semiprecious stones and glass paste. Each horizontal element is …

Stele of Amenemhat’s Family

August 11, 2022August 12, 2022 - by Egypt Museum

This rectangular stele made out of painted limestone shows Amenemhat with his wife, son, and daughter. All the figures are shown seated except his daughter.  She stands before an offering …

Ancient Egyptian Hippopotamus Figurine

August 11, 2022August 11, 2022 - by Egypt Museum

This benevolent-looking hippopotamus slips into the marshes, taking on their color and half-engulfed in water plants. Bright-blue Egyptian faience figures of hippopotami such as this were placed in the tombs …

Girdle of Princess Sithathor

August 11, 2022August 11, 2022 - by Egypt Museum

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 …

Statue of the God Sobek

August 10, 2022August 11, 2022 - by Egypt Museum

Fragment of a limestone statue (snout restored) of the chief god of Faiyum, the crocodile-headed Sobek. The statue comes from the mortuary temple of Amenemhat III, attached to his pyramid …

The Royal Cartouche of Senusret I

August 10, 2022August 10, 2022 - by Egypt Museum

Bas relief depicts the royal cartouche of Senusret I (Kheperkare, The Ka of Ra is created). Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, reign of Senusret I, ca. 1971-1926 BC. Detail of a carving …

Funeral Bed of Osiris

August 3, 2022August 8, 2022 - by Egypt Museum

Osiris on his funeral bed inscribed with the name of king Djedkheperew. The sculpture was tentatively attributed to another 13th Dynasty king, Khendjer, but examinations of the inscriptions proved that …

King Senusret I being embraced by Ptah

July 30, 2022August 10, 2022 - by Egypt Museum

Detail of an elegant pillar of King Senusret I, is finely decorated with relief on four sides. Each side shows the king in the presence of a different deity: the …

Model of Nubian Archers

July 30, 2022August 7, 2022 - by Egypt Museum

These wooden models of 40 Nubian archers are grouped together on the same pedestal and arranged in 10 rows of four. Each archer is holding in one hand a bow …

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