Egypt
- 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...
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Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) On Saturday, I met up with the Young Archaeologists Club (YAC) to do a spot of hieroglyph translation. For the session, I chose this short text on an object currently displayed in the Museum’s Discovery...
- Photo For Today - More From The Walters Art Museum
WM-EG018 Woman with Lotus Copyright Rick Menges, with my thanks Date (Period): ca. 2170-2020 BC (First Intermediate) Medium: limestone with traces of paint Measurements: 17 11/16 x 18 5/16 in. (45 x 46.5 cm); framed: 20 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 2 15/16 in....
- Photo For Today - Stela Of Ramessesemperre, Brussels
The Musée Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles is light-filled and full of space (the Petrie Museum would do absolute wonders with that sort of real estate), and there are some lovely artefacts from the prehistoric period through to the Coptic...
- Kv-63 Update
KV-63 17 March 2009 Sorry for the delay, for I had intended to have this update out much earlier. My lecture on March 14th at the Mummification Museum went well as I managed to present sixty-eight images in 45 minutes! As mentioned in my 7 February update...
Egypt
Photo for Today - The deity Henut-Mestjet, Brussels
Offering to Henut-Mestjet
Third Intermediate Period.
Necropolis north of Abydos
Limestone with some paint remaining
Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire
E.6251
Text from:
http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=995
"This stela from the necropolis of Abydos was made for a woman whose name cannot be
read with certainty. It shows the owner of the stela accompanied by her daughter Asettanefret;
both wear long transparent robes, which only appear in outline. The mother holds a
libation vase in her right hand. A lotus flower projects from the unguent cone on top of her
head. The offerings, placed on a table, shaped like a lotus flower, consist of food and a large
boughet of lotuses. The owner worships a lion-headed goddess crowned with a large solar
disc with an uraeus; the deity is called Henut-Mestjet, a name not known from other
sources."
Necropolis north of Abydos
Limestone with some paint remaining
Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire
E.6251
Text from:
http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=995
Thanks to Kat Newkirk for the above link with the following details
"This stela from the necropolis of Abydos was made for a woman whose name cannot be
read with certainty. It shows the owner of the stela accompanied by her daughter Asettanefret;
both wear long transparent robes, which only appear in outline. The mother holds a
libation vase in her right hand. A lotus flower projects from the unguent cone on top of her
head. The offerings, placed on a table, shaped like a lotus flower, consist of food and a large
boughet of lotuses. The owner worships a lion-headed goddess crowned with a large solar
disc with an uraeus; the deity is called Henut-Mestjet, a name not known from other
sources."
- 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...
-
Egypt at the Manchester Museum (Campbell Price) On Saturday, I met up with the Young Archaeologists Club (YAC) to do a spot of hieroglyph translation. For the session, I chose this short text on an object currently displayed in the Museum’s Discovery...
- Photo For Today - More From The Walters Art Museum
WM-EG018 Woman with Lotus Copyright Rick Menges, with my thanks Date (Period): ca. 2170-2020 BC (First Intermediate) Medium: limestone with traces of paint Measurements: 17 11/16 x 18 5/16 in. (45 x 46.5 cm); framed: 20 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 2 15/16 in....
- Photo For Today - Stela Of Ramessesemperre, Brussels
The Musée Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles is light-filled and full of space (the Petrie Museum would do absolute wonders with that sort of real estate), and there are some lovely artefacts from the prehistoric period through to the Coptic...
- Kv-63 Update
KV-63 17 March 2009 Sorry for the delay, for I had intended to have this update out much earlier. My lecture on March 14th at the Mummification Museum went well as I managed to present sixty-eight images in 45 minutes! As mentioned in my 7 February update...