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Mother and Child
This figure of a woman carrying a child on her back was dedicated as a votive offering to the goddess Hathor.
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Stela of Neskhonsu
This round-topped painted wooden stela of Neskhons was found at Deir el-Bahri in an area dedicated for the burials of the priests of god Montu. Neskhons' husband was a priest of Montu. The stela is framed by the arched body of the sky goddess Nut who to…
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Stela of Nehemesbastet
A painted limestone stela from Abydos. It belongs to Nehemesbastet daughter of Padewen and Neshathor and is dated to the reign of Psamtek I who ruled Egypt in Dynasty 26. A curved sign of the sky and a winged sun disc with two uraeus snakes fill the rou…
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Isis and Horus
A rectangular sandstone stela from Armant in Upper Egypt. The top is decorated with an Egyptian cavetto cornice and a winged sun disk. Below, is a double scene of goddess Isis seated at an offering table, nursing her child Horus. The low-backed throne o…
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Isis Protecting an Osiris Figurine
A small yet impressive statuette showing Isis protecting a small figure of Osiris with her wings. The goddess wears a crown of uraeus snakes, topped by a pair of cow horns and a sun disc. Osiris appears in his usual mummy form, wearing an atef crown, ho…
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Mask and Bead Net of Hekaemsaf
A golden mask and mummy trappings from the wooden coffin and mummy of Hekaemsaf who served as a ‘Chief of Royal Boats’ under King Amasis in Dynasty 26. His intact burial was found at Saqqara and the mummy was covered with a golden mask and richly embroi…
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Sphinx of Shepenwepet II
The ‘god’s Wife of Amun’ was the highest-ranking priestess of that deity whose cult was centred in Thebes in Upper Egypt. It first appeared as an office in the Middle Kingdom. Its political potential reached its zenith in the Late Third Intermediate Per…
