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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…
This kneeling naophoros statuette of a man named Pa-kher-Khonsu was discovered by G. Legrain in the Karnak Cache in 1905 (CK 549). As indicated by the inscriptions on his statuette, Pa-kher-Khonsu held a number of important titles, such as the ‘God’s Fa…
Tutankhamun’s canopic chest was hollowed into four cylindrical hollows, each concealed a miniature coffin wrapped in linen. The coffinettes held the internal organs that were removed during the mummification process. Elaborately fashioned of gold inlaid…
An Egyptian alabaster vessel from the collection of Mesehti, a provincial governor of Asyut in Dynasty 11. It has a wide rounded rim, smooth body and a flat base, the typical form for ointment jars in ancient Egypt. Cosmetic and perfume ointments were u…
A string of fifty-eight irregularly shaped beads of carnelian (a semi-precious gemstone). These beads may mostly have come from Mesopotamia. They were deposited, along with other artefacts, inside four copper-alloy caskets discovered in 1936 in the foun…
A silver statuette of a sphinx, discovered in 1918, among other objects in the Dendera Treasure Hoard (a cache of votive silver, gold and bronze objects discovered in 1918 near the sacred lake of the temple of Dendera). The sphinx wears a nemes headclot…
Funerary masks were used in ancient Egypt to protect the head of the deceased and to ensure that their features were perfectly portrayed. This cartonnage mummy mask belongs to Mesehti who served as a provincial governor of Asyut during the later stages …
Flat stone palettes of various shapes were produced in ancient Egypt since the Predynastic Period. They were first used for grinding minerals into pigments for cosmetic use, but their shape and function evolved over time to include a commemorative and c…
The ‘Dendera Treasure Hoards’ were caches discovered at Dendera in the area between the temple proper and its enclosure wall. They included spectacular silver, gold and bronze objects of great art-historical value. Among the discovered object were statu…
Shields were long used in ancient Egypt to protect soldiers from spears and arrows and to deflect blows during hand-to-hand combat. They were commonly rectangular in shape, made by stretching cow-hide or ox-hide over a wooden frame with a handle or a le…
Excavations made at the end of the nineteenth century in the royal cemetery of Umm el-Qa’ab at Abydos uncovered ten royal tomb stelae (stone markers or monuments) of variable sizes. These stelae belonged to eight Early Dynastic Period rulers and most li…
In these earrings tiny figures of the king stand on a heb festival sign between uraeus snakes, all suspended from a falcon. Each earring is made up of three parts and it would have been impossible for the king to put these on alone. They were fastened b…
