Egypt
Past Horizons
- Egyptian Enigma: The Starving Of Saqqara
World Archaeology (Caitlin McCall) Standing 67cm high, the limestone figures are intriguing and haunting, with their elongated skulls, their slack mouths, and their painfully thin limbs. Squatting naked opposite each other, one rests a hand on the arm...
- Egypt Recovers Ramesside Statue
Ahram Online The Antikhenmuseum in Basel, Switzerland will return to Egypt a limestone relief depicting a hunting scene from the daily life of its owner. The relief is dated to the fifth dynasty of the Old Kingdom (c. 2649-2134 BC) and it is 51cm high...
- New Museum For Hamilton, Ohio
Middletown Journal The building construction has been completed, and for Harry Wilks and his staff at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, it’s now just a matter of getting the art into place before opening up the Museum of Antiquities this summer. The work...
- More Re Loan Of Hemiunu To Egypt
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) On October 2, 2007, Independent Online reported that the Roemer-und Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Germany agreed to lend the massive Hemiunu Seated (ca. 2540 B.C.) sculpture to Egypt for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum...
- Base For Statuette Of Sekhemka
In the Brooklyn Museum is the statuette of Sekhemka, the diorite statue of Sekhemka sits on this base made of limestone and painted to resemble the statuette. The statuette was repaired in ancient times as is seen by an ancient drill hole on the broken...
Egypt
The mystery of ‘The Starving of Saqqara
Past Horizons
Grotesque or beautiful? – Rare antiquity or outright fake? – For more than a decade Concordia University has investigated the origins of a mysterious sculpture. Once part of the Diniacopoulos Collection of Mediterranean antiquities, it has been in the university’s possession since 1999.
The 67-centimetre-high limestone work, with traces of pigments, depicts two nude seated figures with large heads. It also features inscriptions in an unidentified language.
To learn more about the artwork, Concordia’s Director of Special Projects and Cultural Affairs, Clarence Epstein, has consulted experts from Cambridge University, the British Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Israel Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum.
So far, no authority has been able to confirm the sculpture’s pedigree.
- Egyptian Enigma: The Starving Of Saqqara
World Archaeology (Caitlin McCall) Standing 67cm high, the limestone figures are intriguing and haunting, with their elongated skulls, their slack mouths, and their painfully thin limbs. Squatting naked opposite each other, one rests a hand on the arm...
- Egypt Recovers Ramesside Statue
Ahram Online The Antikhenmuseum in Basel, Switzerland will return to Egypt a limestone relief depicting a hunting scene from the daily life of its owner. The relief is dated to the fifth dynasty of the Old Kingdom (c. 2649-2134 BC) and it is 51cm high...
- New Museum For Hamilton, Ohio
Middletown Journal The building construction has been completed, and for Harry Wilks and his staff at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, it’s now just a matter of getting the art into place before opening up the Museum of Antiquities this summer. The work...
- More Re Loan Of Hemiunu To Egypt
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) On October 2, 2007, Independent Online reported that the Roemer-und Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Germany agreed to lend the massive Hemiunu Seated (ca. 2540 B.C.) sculpture to Egypt for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum...
- Base For Statuette Of Sekhemka
In the Brooklyn Museum is the statuette of Sekhemka, the diorite statue of Sekhemka sits on this base made of limestone and painted to resemble the statuette. The statuette was repaired in ancient times as is seen by an ancient drill hole on the broken...