Egypt
- Why Do Museums Collect… Shabtis?
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) One of the most popular and ubiquitous items of ancient Egyptian funerary equipment is the small servant figurine – or shabti. Most museums with an Egyptian collection, however small, include at least...
- Texts In Translation #4: An Akh-iqr-n-ra Stela Of Ptah-hesy
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) With photos. This is a fine example of a rare type of stela, made to honour the ‘effective spirits of Re’ (Akhw iqr n Ra). Only around 60 are known, and these date exclusively to the later New Kingdom...
- Object Biography From Manchester Museum
Manchester Museum Blog (Campbell Price) Each month I hope to highlight an individual object that will feature in our new Ancient Worlds galleries. Many of the objects in the collection have incredible stories behind them but, due to an inevitable lack...
- Object Biography #1: A Vessel Naming Nesi-khonsu
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) So good to see Campbell Price making real use of this blog. Each month I hope to highlight an individual object that will feature in our new Ancient Worlds galleries. Many of the objects in the collection...
- More On The Tomb Of Henu At Deir El Barsha
Al Ahram Weekly A short extract is copied below, but see the article on the above page for full details of the tomb and its contents. There are three photos accompanying the article (click on the photograph on the above page or click here to see all three...
Egypt
Object biography #3: A female figurine from the ‘Magician’s tomb’
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price)
With photos. An extraordinary object.
With photos. An extraordinary object.
This wooden figurine (20.2 cm high) is among Manchester Museum’s most discussed Egyptian objects. It represents a naked female, with the face of a lion and two movable arms, attached with pegs. In each hand she holds serpents made of metal. The figurine is just one piece from an intriguing group found amidst debris at the bottom of a late Middle Kingdom (c. 1773-1650 BC) shaft burial known as the ‘Ramesseum tomb.’ This name derived from the location of the shaft at the rear of what later became the mortuary temple of Ramesses II. Many of the other objects from the tomb are also in the Manchester collection.
Between 1885 and 1886, W. M. Flinders Petrie and James Quibell discovered and cleared the shaft. The tomb’s contents included ivory protective ‘wands’, ivory clappers, model food offerings, and female fertility figurines. In association – but not connected for sure – with these was found a box containing 118 reed pens (Acc. No. 1882) and a large number of texts written on papyrus.
- Why Do Museums Collect… Shabtis?
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) One of the most popular and ubiquitous items of ancient Egyptian funerary equipment is the small servant figurine – or shabti. Most museums with an Egyptian collection, however small, include at least...
- Texts In Translation #4: An Akh-iqr-n-ra Stela Of Ptah-hesy
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) With photos. This is a fine example of a rare type of stela, made to honour the ‘effective spirits of Re’ (Akhw iqr n Ra). Only around 60 are known, and these date exclusively to the later New Kingdom...
- Object Biography From Manchester Museum
Manchester Museum Blog (Campbell Price) Each month I hope to highlight an individual object that will feature in our new Ancient Worlds galleries. Many of the objects in the collection have incredible stories behind them but, due to an inevitable lack...
- Object Biography #1: A Vessel Naming Nesi-khonsu
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) So good to see Campbell Price making real use of this blog. Each month I hope to highlight an individual object that will feature in our new Ancient Worlds galleries. Many of the objects in the collection...
- More On The Tomb Of Henu At Deir El Barsha
Al Ahram Weekly A short extract is copied below, but see the article on the above page for full details of the tomb and its contents. There are three photos accompanying the article (click on the photograph on the above page or click here to see all three...