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This unusual carrying chest with four sliding poles was found in the Antechamber. It was designed to be carried on the shoulders of four or perhaps eight bearers. The box and lid are constructed from red wood panels inside ebony frames. A scene on the f…
Found inside a yellow-painted wooden box in the Antechamber, this elegant box is decorated in different coloured pigments. There are two bouquets of papyrus, mandrake fruits, cornflowers and lotus petals on the lid and rows of blue lotus flower petals a…
This group statue was found in the Karnak Cache (CK 96). It represents the god Amun-Re enthroned between King Thutmose I and Queen Ahmose, reflecting the close relationship between the divine and royalty. Thutmose I passes his left arm behind Amun and h…
This coarse-grained granite sarcophagus of Djehutymose was discovered in 1915 in a burial shaft at Tuna el-Gebel. Djehutymose served as the ‘Great Overseer of Cattle of Amun-Re in Upper and Lower Egypt’ and ‘Overseer of Works in the House of Thoth’ duri…
This figure of a woman carrying a child on her back was dedicated as a votive offering to the goddess Hathor.
A round-topped limestone stela discovered in Qurna (West Thebes) in 1887. In the upper register of the stela is a double scene of the deified King Amenhotep I and his mother Queen Ahmose-Nefertari seated at an offering table. In the lower register, Smen…
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…
Canopic chests held the embalmed internal organs of the deceased in ancient Egypt. This travertine canopic chest was concealed in a niche cut in the west wall of the burial chamber of Queen Hetepheres I whose tomb was discovered in 1925 on the Giza Plat…
Queen Hatshepsut was a daughter of King Thutmose I and chief royal wife of King Thutmose II. Following her husband’s death, she first acted as regent to his son Thutmose III. Then, she assumed the position of a king by asserting her direct royal lineage…
An extraordinary limestone votive stela from the tomb of Djefaihapy III at Asyut (also known as the Salakhana tomb). It was dedicated by two men named Ramose and Wepmose to Amun-Re and Wepwawet (the local deity of Asyut). The iconography of the stela su…
