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A remarkable painted wooden statue of a high official named Ishetji who served as ‘Sealer of the King of Lower Egypt’ towards the end of Dynasty 6. His burial shaft, discovered at Saqqara in 1950, housed a group of wooden statues and statuettes includin…
A rectangular sandstone stela from the tomb of Neibunesut at Dendera. The stela owner is depicted standing on the right, facing left, holding the kherep sceptre and a flail. He wears a shoulder length hair wig and a leopard skin. According to the short …
A standing theophoros statue of a man named Wesirwer who served as the ‘Chief of Prophets of god Montu at Thebes’ probably about Dynasty 30. The statue originally stood in the great temple of Amun-Re at Karnak. The statue's head was acquired by the Broo…
A round-topped limestone funerary stela discovered in Abydos. The top of the stela is decorated with the winged sun disk with the recumbent figure of Anubis holding a sekhem sceptre between his front legs and a flail over his back. The main scene on the…
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…
This life-sized statue of King Tutankhamun is one of a pair that stood face to face before the sealed doorway to his Burial Chamber. Scenes of the deceased holding a staff and a sceptre frequently appear on false doors from the Old Kingdom onwards as we…
This small gold bowl was discovered in 1936 among other artefacts of the Tod Treasure. It is made of a very thin sheet of gold. The base has three circles and curving bands emanate from this central motif, all made by repoussé (shaping metal by hammerin…
This cartonnage mummy mask was discovered during excavations made in Asyut in Upper Egypt by Ch. Palanque under the direction of E. Chassinat in 1903. It originally belonged to a nobleman named ‘Kheti’ who lived in the Herakleopolitan Period (Dynasties …
A Ptolemaic golden necklace discovered at Dendera in 1914. The necklace is made of a solid gold wire with fourteen ornaments and closes at each end by a hook. The central pendant is a large gold plaque whose upper corners are rounded. The bottom of the …
The central part of this footed cup is in the form of an open white lotus flower on a stem. Two handles in the form of blue lotus flowers and buds, support baskets carrying kneeling figures of Heh, god of eternity, who holds ankh (life) signs and palm b…
These elaborate earrings were attached by tubes that passed through the king’s lobes. Both outer ends are closed by round disks of transparent quartz. The front faces show tiny portraits of the king and are decorated with two uraeus snakes. Multi-colour…
This ivory headrest has a slim wide base with a central pillar shaped as a kneeling figure of god Shu (air) holding with upraised arms a gracefully curved head support. Flanking god Shu are two crouching lions representing the two guardians of the horiz…
