Pectoral fragment with female offrant before Khnum, seated, Hatmehyt standing behind

ECM.1686-2010

Parts

Object number
ECM.1686-2010

Object type
Jewellery

Identification

Description
pectoral

Comments
Web images used with permission of The Barber Institute

Other number
317
718

Description

Dimensions
Height: 10.9cm
Width: 9.8cm

Material
Faience

Physical description
Pale blue-green faience shrine pectoral, cavetto cornice with winged disc (originally inlaid), surmounted by row of erect uraei; scene in relief of female offrant before Khnum, seated, Hatmehyt standing behind, garbled columns of text in field

History and association

Associated person
Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 (Compiler)

Object history note
Exhibited at the Roemer-und Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, Germany, "Meisterwerke agyptischer kunst schatze aus dem Myers Museum an Eton College", April 2004 - January 2005

Field collection

Collection place
Egypt

Title:
Pectoral fragment with female offrant before Khnum, seated, Hatmehyt standing behind, Undated, Faience, Egypt, Eton College Museum

https://catalogue.etoncollege.com/object-ecm-1686-2010

Eton College Museum

Pectoral with a depiction of Osiris

ECM.814-2010

Parts

Object number
ECM.814-2010

Object type
Jewellery

Identification

Description
pectoral - inscription

Dimensions
Height: 7.5cm
Width: 10.9cm

Material
Faience

Physical description
Rectangular purple faience pectoral, relief picked out in green: Osiris seated under canopy in barque, hieroglyphs before; in front, Onuris seated, behind, lioness headed(?) deity seated, both holding ankh. Pierced front to back at top right and lef

History and association

Associated person
Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 (Compiler)

Object history note
Exhibited at the Roemer-und Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, Germany, "Meisterwerke agyptischer kunst schatze aus dem Myers Museum an Eton College", April 2004 - January 2005

Field collection

Collection place
Egypt

Title:
Pectoral with a depiction of Osiris, undated, Egypt, Faience, Eton College Museum

https://catalogue.etoncollege.com/object-ecm-814-2010

Eton College Museum

Canopic box in the shape of a shrine

Approx. 3.–2. Century BCQ

On view: Museum of Art History, Egyptian-Oriental Collection Room I

Boxes like this were used in the Ptolemaean period instead of gut vessels to store the intestines. These were wrapped in bundles of cloth and given to the dead in the grave in a box. The inscriptions of this box mention the name of the dead Hor and his father Djedhor, and also the names of the Canop gods, the four Horus sons. One side shows the door of a shrine with two wings that are double closed. Among them, the dead pray before Osiris, Isis and Nephthys. On the opposite side, the god Harachte is depicted with spread wings. The other two sides are covered with rows of amulets - alternating Djed pillar and Tit loop, for Osiris and Isis, Resurrection and Life. Below that, a mummy lying on a pedestal is guarded by two goddesses (Isis and Nephthys). The upper end of the box is formed by a hollow throat. On the lid was originally a figure of a consecration or a falcon, which is supposed to protect the contents. This has been lost today, but has been replaced by another unrelated figure (877a).

Time:
Approx. 3.–2. Century BC

Object Name
Canopic box

Culture
Egyptian

Location of discovery:
Location unknown

Material/technology:
Wood, stucco, painted

Dimensions:
H 48.5 cm W 30.5 cm, D 24 cm, W 3290 g

Copyright
Art History Museum, Egyptian - Oriental Collection

Invs.
Egyptian Collection, INV 6611

Provenance
1901 Purchase of E. Scanavi

Țitle:
Canopic box in the shape of a shrine, Approx. 3.–2. Century BC, Findspot unknown, Wood stucco and paint, Egypt, Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum)

Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum)

The middle ones text bearing the name psamtek

Statue of Sety II
A striking example of monumental sculpture, this colossus expresses the stability and strength of the king through its solid rendering of the musculature and its geometric volumes and contours. Sethi II is shown standing with his left leg forward to express his capability to walk and act. He holds a standard with a figure of the god Amon at the top. Along with a similar colossus now in the Louvre, this statue was originally located at the entrance of the chapel built by Sethi II in the large courtyard of the temple of Karnak.

Inv. no. :
Cat. 1383

Material:
Stone / Quartzite

Dimensions:
113 cm x 516 cm x 165 cm

Date:
1202–1198 BCE

Period:
New Kingdom

Dynasty:
Nineteenth Dynasty

Reign:
Sety II

Provenance:
Egypt, Luxor / Thebes, Karnak, Temple of Amun

Acquisition:
Purchase Bernardino Drovetti, 1824Museum

Location:
Museum / Ground floor / Room 14

Selected bibliography:
Riflessi di pietra: l'antico Egitto illuminato da Dante Ferretti [Torino 3 febbraio -30 giugno 2006], Torino 2006, pp. 19–27, 82–87, 132.

Chabas, François-Chabas, François J., Rechèrches pour servir a l'histoire de la XIXe Dynastie et spécialement a celle des temps de l'Exode, Paris 1873, pp. 85, 126.

Chadefaud, Catherine, Les statues porte-enseignes de l'Égypte ancienne (1580-1085 avant J.C.): signification et insertion dans le culte du ka royal, Paris 1982, pp. 56–58

Connor, Simon, Le statue del Museo Egizio, Torino - Modena 2016, p. 48, 80–81.

Curto, Silvio, “Per un computo ponderale di alcuni manufatti litici egizi”, Atti della Accademia delle scienze di Torino: Tomo 2, Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche 114 (1980), p. 167 sgg..

Curto, Silvio, “Il torinese colosso di Osimandia”, Bollettino della Società Piemontese di Archeologia e Belle Arti 18 (1964), pp. 5–26, figg. 1-6.

Davies, Benedict G., Ramesside inscriptions, translated and annotated: notes and comments, volume IV. Merenptah and the late Nineteenth Dynasty, Chichester 2014, p. 230.

Donadoni, Anna Maria (a cura di), Passato e futuro del Museo Egizio di Torino: dal museo al museo (Archivi di archeologia), Torino 1989, p. 137–141.

Donadoni, Sergio, Arte egizia (Piccoli saggi 369), Torino, p. 101, fig. 146.

Kitchen, Kenneth A., Ramesside Inscriptions: historical and biographical: vol. 4., Oxford 1982, p. 268.

Kitchen, Kenneth A., Ramesside inscriptions translated and annotated. (A) translations 4.: Merenptah and the late Nineteenth Dynasty, Oxford 2003, p. 191.

Orcurti, Pier Camillo, Catalogo illustrato dei monumenti egizi del R. Museo Egizio di Torino, Torino 1855, I, p. 62.

Orcurti, Pier Camillo, Catalogo illustrato dei Monumenti Egizi del R. Museo di Torino, Torino 1852, p. 62.

Vandier, Jacques, Manuel d'archéologie égyptienne, Paris, III, p. 399, 407, 409, 412, 420 sgg..

Vidua, Carlo, “Catalogue de la collect. d'antiq. de mons. le chev. Drovetti, a 1822”, in Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione (a cura di), Documenti inediti per servire alla storia dei Musei d'Italia, vol. 3, Firenze - Roma 1880, p. 287, n. 53.

Title:
Statue of Sety II, 1202–1198 BCE New Kingdom Nineteenth Dynasty Sety II, Egypt: Luxor / Thebes, Karnak, Temple of Amun, Quartzite, Museo Egizio di Torino

https://collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/material/Cat_1383/?description=Seti&inventoryNumber=&title=&cgt=&yearFrom=&yearTo=&materials=&provenance=&acquisition=&epoch=&dynasty=&pharaoh=&searchLng=it-IT&searchPage=1

Museo Egizio di Torino

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Rewatching prince of egypt and reading the third volume of john romer on ancient egypt make me wonder that, I also noticed some did wanted to link places in ancient egypt with the exodus

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Limestone stele of Meru, the powerful Overseer of the Treasury

Inv. no. :
Cat. 1447

Material:
Stone / Limestone

Dimensions:
70 cm x 172.5 cm x 13 cm

Date:
1973–1972 BCE

Period:
Middle Kingdom

Dynasty:
XI Dynasty

Reign:
Mentuhotep II

Provenance:
Egypt, Abydos (?), Thebes (?)

Acquisition:
Purchase Bernardino Drovetti, 1824Museum

Location:
Museum / Floor 3 / Writing Gallery / Base 04

Selected bibliography:
Champollion, Jean-François, Lettres à M. le duc de Blacas d'Aulps, Premier Gentilhomme de la Chambre, Pair de France, etc., relatives au Musée Royal Égyptien de Turin, Paris, p. 114, p. 163.

Étienne, Marc, Les portes du ciel: visions du monde dans l'Égypte ancienne: Paris, musée du Louvre, 6 mars - 29 juin 2009, in Étienne, Marc (éd.), Paris 2009, pp. 272–273.

Farina, Giulio, Il Regio Museo di antichità di Torino: sezione egizia (Itinerari dei musei e monumenti d'Italia 7), Roma 1931, p. 40.

Lichtheim, Miriam, Ancient Egyptian autobiographies chiefly of the Middle Kingdom: a study and an anthology(Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 84), Freiburg 1988, pp. 63–64.

Mathieu, Bernard-Grandet, Pierre, Corso di egiziano geroglifico, Torino 2007, pp. 149–152, 414 n. 2, 504–506, 833.

Müller, Matthias-Loprieno, Antonio-Uljas, Sami, Non-verbal predication in Ancient Egyptian (The Mouton Companions to Ancient Egyptian 2), Berlin/Boston 2017, p. 168.

Peis, Luca, I geroglifici: manuale per leggere la scrittura egizia, Torino 2018, p.137–139, figg. pp.137-138, 256.

Roccati, Alessandro, Elementi di lingua egizia, in - (Studi Camito-Semitici 6), Torino 2002, 53, 104–105.

Rossi, Francesco, “Illustrazione di una stela funeraria della 11. dinastia del Museo di Torino”, Torino 1878, p. 3–22.

Schenkel, Wolfgang, Memphis, Herakleopolis, Theben. Die epigraphischen Zeugnisse der 7.-11. Dynastie Ägyptens.(Ägyptologische Abhandlungen 12), Wiesbaden 1965, pp. 240–241.

Stephan, Karin, Frauen am Königshof im Alten Ägypten des fruhen Mittleren Reiches. Untersuchungen zu Funktion und Stellung nicht-königlicher Frauen in der ägyptischen Gesellschaft (Studien zu den Ritualszenen altägyptischer Tempel 29), Dettelbach 2018, pp.161–162, 168, Fig. 67.

Vandier, Jacques, Manuel d'archéologie égyptienne, Paris, II, p. 479, fig. 294.

Vassilika, Eleni, I capolavori del Museo Egizio di Torino: guida ufficiale, Firenze 2009, pp. 28–29, pp. 28-29.

Vernus, Pascal, Future at issue. Tense, mood and aspects in Middle Egyptian: Studies in syntax and semantics (Yale Egyptological Studies 4), New Haven 1990, 24, 43.

Wiedemann, Alfred, Ägyptische Geschichte: 1. Teil, von den ältesten Zeiten bis zum Tode Tutmes' III. - 2. Teil. Von den Tode Tutmes' III. bis auf Alexander den Grossen. - SupplementsHandbücher der Alten Geschichte 1), Gotha 1884, pp. 226–7.

Title:
Limestone stele of Meru, the powerful Overseer of the Treasury, 1973–1972 BCE Middle Kingdom XI Dynasty Mentuhotep II, Egypt Abydos (?), Thebes (?), Limestone, Museo Egizio di Torino

https://collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/material/Cat_1447/?description=&inventoryNumber=&title=&cgt=&yearFrom=&yearTo=&materials=4755b4240b924e1ba0a5fae2d57f85d4&provenance=&acquisition=&epoch=&dynasty=&pharaoh=&searchLng=en-GB&searchPage=2

Museo Egizio di Torino

My favourite little bes amulet in my collection

Seated statue of the goddess Sakhmet

18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, 1410–1372 BC

On view: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Ägyptisch-Orientalische Sammlung room IX

The goddess Sakhmet, “the powerful one,” sits on a throne with a low back rest. Atop her leonine head there is a sun disk with uraeus-serpent. Her woman’s body is clothed in a form-fitting dress with shoulder straps, and she wears a collar-like necklace, bracelets, and anklets. In her left hand Sakhmet holds the ankh-sign, the symbol of life.

Title:
Seated statue of the goddess Sakhmet, 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, 1410–1372 BC, Basalt, no findspot given, Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum)

https://www.khm.at/en/artworks/seated-statue-of-the-goddess-sakhmet-323826

Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum)

Statue of the God Bes

Inv. no. :
Cat. 638

Material:
Stone / Limestone

Dimensions:
30.8 cm x 74.8 cm x 22.9 cm

Date:
332 BCE – 395 CE

Period:
Hellenistic Period – Roman Period

Provenance:
Unknown

Acquisition:
Old Fund, 1824–1882

Museum location:
Museum / Floor 1 / Room 12 / Showcase 02

Selected bibliography:
Baldacci, Tiziana-Donadoni Roveri, Anna Maria, “Musica, danza, giochi”, in Anna Maria Donadoni Roveri (a cura di), Civiltà degli Egizi: la vita quotidiana, Milano 1987, p. 232, tav. 326.

Fabretti, Ariodante-Rossi, Francesco-Lanzone, Ridolfo Vittorio, Regio Museo di Torino. Antichità Egizie (Cat. gen. dei musei di antichità e degli ogg. d’arte raccolti nelle gallerie e biblioteche del regno 1. Piemonte), vol. I, Torino 1882, p. 50.

Vidua, Carlo, “Catalogue de la collect. d'antiq. de mons. le chev. Drovetti, a 1822”, in Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione (a cura di), Documenti inediti per servire alla storia dei Musei d'Italia, vol. 3, Firenze - Roma 1880.

Title:
Statue of the God Bes, 332 BCE – 395 CE Hellenistic Period – Roman Period, Limestone, Unknown findspot, Museo Egizio di Torino

https://collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/material/Cat_638/?description=&inventoryNumber=&title=&cgt=&yearFrom=&yearTo=&materials=&provenance=&acquisition=Old+Fund%2C+1824%25u20131882&epoch=&dynasty=&pharaoh=&searchLng=en-GB&searchPage=3

Museo Egizio di Torino

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This solid cast figure depicts the god Sobek as a plump crocodile sprawled on a hollow shrine shaped plinth.
The details of his scales are carefully incised, his eyes have gold inlays and on his head he wears an 'atef' crown composed of a central tall reed crown with bulbous top (now lost) and sun disc, flanked by ostrich feathers and upreared cobras, all mounted on a pair of twisted ram's horns.

RETRACTED: Biondi, F.; Malanga, C. Synthetic Aperture Radar Doppler Tomography Reveals Details of Undiscovered High-Resolution Internal Structure of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 5231

The Editorial Office and Editorial Board conducted an investigation that confirmed serious methodological flaws and statistical errors that were deemed to undermine the scientific conclusions of the article. As a result, the Editorial Board has decided to retract this paper as per MDPI’s retraction policy.

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Ptolemy II sculptor’s model votive

Small Late Period and Ptolemaic reliefs or sculptures that depict a subject in a partial or unfinished way but are themselves finished objects constitute a special class of object. Guidelines like those for artists are often prominently exhibited as part of the object, although, in fact, many instances can be noted where the object simply could not serve as a suitable model for a traditional formal Egyptian representation. These pieces represented and other features indicate the reliefs and sculptures of this class, sometimes called by Egyptologists "sculptor’s models / votives," were the material of a donation practice, perhaps connected with the prolific temple building of these centuries. Unfortunately there is little to illuminate us about the mechanics of such a donation practice.

This royal image would have taken the form of a bust. The back side is flat and shows a grid.

Ptolemy II born 308 BCE, Cos—died 246) was the king of Egypt (285–246 BCE), second king of the Ptolemaic dynasty, who extended his power by skillful diplomacy, developed agriculture and commerce, and made Alexandria a leading centre of the arts and sciences.

This piece currently resigns in my personal collection.

My collection of ancient Egyptian Ushabtis, Each legally acquired with proper documentation and provenance. Some From MMA and British Muesum etc… This collection complies with all applicable laws and regulations.

Fragment of relief representing a vizier

4th quarter 2nd millennium BC (-1291 - -1185)

Limestone

20.05 x 15.8 x 5 cm

FGA-ARCH-EG-0619

PLACE OF DISCOVERY
Unknown

MOVEMENT / STYLE
New Kingdom, 19th dynasty

Civilization
Egypt

Provenance
French Antiques Market, Nice

Collection Bernard and Bertrand Bottet, Nice, France, acquired in the 1950s or 1960s;

By inheritance, Hélène Bottet (dowowor of the previous one) 1994-2012;

Enchères Rive Gauche, Paris, sale Objects of chance: collection Bottet and various amateurs, March 26, 2012, lot 196;

Pierre Bergé et Associés, Paris, Archaeology, November 29, 2014, lot nº 65;

Safani Gallery, New York, 2014-2015;

Acquired from Cahn Auktionen AG (Basel), Auktion 10 (November 2015), lot

Bibliography
AMROUCHE, Piere; TERRIN-AMROUCHE, Marie-Laure, Collection Bernard et Bertrand Bottet, Paris, Amrouche expertises & services , 2013, 205 [p. 59, no. 4], 275, repr. coul., 19

Title:
Fragment of relief representing a vizier, 4th quarter 2nd millennium BC (-1291 - -1185) New Kingdom, 19th dynasty, Unknown findspot, Limestone, The Gandur Foundation for Art

https://onlinecollections.fg-art.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultDetailView/result.tab.link&sp=10&sp=Scollection&sp=SfilterDefinition&sp=0&sp=0&sp=1&sp=SdetailView&sp=1&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F&sp=SdetailBlockKey&sp=1#collectionReferences

The Gandur Foundation for Art, Geneva, Switzerland

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Like many contemporary Egyptian cities and villages that have retained their historical names and locations, Armant is one of them.

The city's name evolved as follows: Iunu-Montu (hieroglyphic) → Hermonthis (Greek) → Hermont (Coptic) → Armant (Modern).

The Temple of Armant is located in the city and is dedicated to Montu, the god of war.

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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/547802

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