r/ancientegypt • • 14h ago

Discussion What's your favourite era of Egyptian art?

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Pics 1- 3 old Kingdom: so underrated and quickly becoming some of my favourites I love the colours they're so bright

Pics 4-5 middle kingdom everyones sadder looking and has bigger hair it feels like and huge ears!

Pics: 6-7 new kingdom the most famous style

Pics 8-9 amarna style when everything went a bit crazy I should've added the inbetween style here( but only had so many pics allowed to post at once) by amenhotep and tiye which began to show them with more imperfections like amenhotep being chubby and tiye being mad all the time

Pics 10 (for some reason won't let me post the nefertari pic to go with) when the new kingdom went back to normal style and the great monuments of ramses

Pics 11-13 late kingdom

I'm sorry but I really don't like this style for some reason just me?

This isn't all the styles just all the space I had! What's your favourite style? It doesn't have to be one of these!


r/ancientegypt • • 2h ago

Photo My collection

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My first steps towards an Egyptian collection. Tiny little amulets and ushabti figures. Last one not entirely Egyptian though. It's supposed to be Isis-as-Fortuna from the Roman period. It's so exciting. These are by far the oldest things I own.


r/ancientegypt • • 6h ago

Video Over 3,000 years ago, Egyptian tomb builders went on strike because their grain pay was late, and it worked

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The craftsmen who carved and painted the royal tombs weren’t slaves. They lived with their families in their own village near the Valley of the Kings and were paid in grain, which was their food for the month.

Under Ramesses III, the rations came late, then late again. So the workers put down their tools, marched out, and sat outside the temples, refusing to return until they were paid. Officials made excuses, and the workers didn’t move. The grain was eventually delivered, but payments kept slipping and they walked out more than once.

We know all this because a scribe recorded it on papyrus. It’s often called the first recorded strike in history.

I researched and wrote the script, visuals and voiceover were made with AI tools. Full video in the comments


r/ancientegypt • • 8h ago

Photo Funerary Mask 02, Ptolemaic Period, c. 323 - 30 BC, Findspot unknown Egypt, Cartonnage, National Museums of Scotland

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Funerary Mask 02

Funerary mask of gilded and painted cartonnage, from an unidentified mummified person : Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, possibly Abydos or Faiyum, Ptolemaic Period, c. 323 - 30 BC

This item is not on display

Collection
World Culture

Object number
A.1902.306.29

Object name
Funerary mask

Production information
Egypt, Northern Africa
323 - 30 BC

Culture / Style
Ptolemaic Period, Ancient Egyptian

Materials
Cartonnage

Collection place(s)
Abydos, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa
Faiyum, Middle Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations
Depicted: Osiris

References
WARD, E 1912. Guide to the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities (Edinburgh: His Majesty’s Stationery Office) : 31, pl. IX
GRIMM, G 1974. Die römische Mumienmasken aus Ägypten (Wiesbaden: Frank Steiner): 45 n.6, 126
Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), Cat. 40, p. 111

Title
Funerary Mask 02, Ptolemaic Period, c. 323 - 30 BC, Findspot unknown Egypt, Cartonnage, National Museums of Scotland

https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections/search/object?entry=301430&school-style-generic=ancient+egyptian&material=Cartonnage&page=1&view=cards

National Museums of Scotland

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r/ancientegypt • • 3h ago

Photo Scorpion Amulet,1st-2nd Dynasty, c.3200-2686 BC, Findspot Upper Egypt, Hierakonpolis, Main Deposit (433), Faience, National Museums of Scotland

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Scorpion Amulet

Amulet in coarse green faience in the form of a scorpion with tail erect: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Hierakonpolis, Main Deposit (433), Early Dynastic Period, 1st-2nd Dynasty, c.3200-2686 BC

This item is on display
National Museum Of Scotland, Level 5, World Cultures, Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Collection
World Culture

Object number
A.1956.325

Object name
Amulet

Production information
Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa
Early Dynastic

Culture / Style
Ancient Egyptian

Materials
Faience

Collection place(s)
Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Exhibitions
Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
National Museum of Scotland
Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008(2003 - 2008)
Royal Scottish Museum

References
Adams, B. (1974) ANCIENT HIERAKONPOLIS (Supplement), Wilts: Aris & Phillips Ltd, pp.7,160,16

Murray, M. (1900) CATALOGUE OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES, Edinburgh , p.51, cat.921

Title
Scorpion Amulet,1st-2nd Dynasty, c.3200-2686 BC, Findspot Upper Egypt, Hierakonpolis, Main Deposit (433), Faience, National Museums of Scotland

https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections/search/object?entry=300826&keyword=Scorpion+&keyword-field=all&page=1&view=cards

National Museums of Scotland


r/ancientegypt • • 1d ago

Photo Triple Compartment Funeral Servant Box, XXIst Dynasty (attribution according to style) (-1069 - -943 ?), Findspot unknown Egypt, Wood and paint, The Louvre Museum

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Triple Compartment Funeral Servant Box
-1069 / -943 (?) (XXI dynasty)

N 4124; Durand no. 292; ED 117

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

Inventory number
Main number: N 4124
Previous coll. no.: Durand no. 292
Sales number: ED 117

Collection: Department of Egyptian Antiquities

Description
Object name/Title: triple-ply funeral servant’s box
Description/Features: The front face shows a heart weight and a standing man wearing a wig in pockets, a pleated front with folding linen skirt, and a shirt with sleeves; Horakhty appears as a seated falcon-headed god in a linen shroud with a uraeus solar disk, holding a heqa scepter, flail, and djed pillar; Anubis stands with a canine head; Thot stands with an ibis head holding a scribe’s palette; a scale is present. The back depicts a scene of worship with a standing man before seated Osiris, standing Isis with her sign, standing Nephthys with her sign, a nebula, and the sign of the West. The right and left sides show an adoring man and the four sons of Horus.

Registrations: Writing is hieroglyphic. The text includes a formula of ouchebtis and funeral formulas. Names and titles include Tchaounhouy (superior of the scribes of the House of Gold of the domain of Amun), Pakaoutyou (?), Horakhty, Osiris, Isis, the four sons of Horus, and Thot.

Physical Characteristics
Dimensions: Height: 43.5 cm; Length: 44 cm; Width: 16 cm
Materials and techniques: Material is wood; technique is painting; color is yellow ochre.

Places and Dates
Date: XXIst dynasty (attribution according to style) (-1069 – -943)

HistoryCollector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / DedicateeDurand, Edme, Antoine, Seller; Collector

Acquisition details purchase

Acquisition date date of registration in the inventory: 02/03/1825

Owned by State

Held by the Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities

LOCATION OF OBJECT

Current location
Sully, [AE] Room 320 - The tombs, Vitrine 5

index

Mode of acquisition purchase

Name Box for funeral servants with triple compartments

Materials wood

Painting techniques

Description/Features scribe palette - scale - djed pillar - nemes - uraeus solar disk - Osiris - Thot - Isis sign - Nephthys sign - sign of the West - worshipping - holding - front - left face - right face - front face - back face - weighing of the heart - man - worship scene - seated - standing - heqa scepter - flail - Isis - Nephthys - Horakhty - the four sons of Horus - ibis-headed god - falcon-headed god - jackal-headed god - Anubis - pleated linen draped over a banner and hanging down - shroud - pouch wig - long-sleeved shirt

Names and titles
Pakaoutyou - Tchaounhouy - Thot - the 4 sons of Horus - Horakhty - Isis - Osiris - superior of the scribes of the house of money of the domain of Amun

Period XXI dynasty

Nature of text formules of ouchebtis - funeral formulas

Scriptigraphic

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Farout, Dominique, Ancient Egypt and hieroglyphs, Paris, Louvre editions; Flammarion jeunesse, 2022, ill. p. 50

Siesse, Julien, "About some unpublished elements of the funerary furniture of Soutymès (beginning of the XXIst dynasty)," Revue d'Égyptologie (RdE), 70, 2020, p. 161-188, p. 173-175

Guichard, Sylvie (dir.), Champollion, Jean-François, Descriptive notice of Egyptian monuments of the Charles X Museum, Paris, Louvre editions / editions Khéops, 2013, p. 292, ill. p. 290-291, R. 12

Sousa, Rogério, The Heart of Wisdom: Studies on the Heart Amulet in Ancient Egypt, Oxford, Archaeopress, (BAR International Series 2211), 2011, p. 32 note 34

Etienne, Marc (dir.), Journey to the Afterlife. Egyptian Antiquities from the Louvre, cat. exp. (Australia, Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, November 17, 2006 - February 25, 2007; Adelaide, March 21 - July 1, 2007; Perth, July 21 - October 28, 2007), Sidney; Paris, Art Exhibitions Australia; Louvre Museum, 2006, p. 85, ill. p. 85, no. 109

Ziegler, Christiane; Andreu, Guillemette; Suzuki, Madoka (dir.), The Egyptian man based on the masterpieces of the Louvre, exhibition cat. (Nagoya, Municipal Museum, March 29-May 22, 2005; Fukuoka, Municipal Museum June 4-July 18, 2005; Tokyo, Metropolitan Museum, August 2-October 2, 2005), NHK Promotions, 2005, p. 177; 250-251, ill. p. 177, no. 141

Link, Li-Li (dir.), Eternal Egypt: 4000 years of civilization, exhibition cat. (Taipei, November 21, 2003 - November 7, 2004), Taipei, Jio Kuan Culture, Production and Management, 2004, p. 240-241, 295, illus. p. 240-241, No. 161

Chaouabtis, pharaonic workers for eternity, cat. exp. (Paris, Louvre Museum, 2003), Paris, Editions of the National Museums Union, 2003, p. 16, 42, ill. p. 42, no. 20

Munro, Irmtraut, Spruchvorkommen auf Totenbuch-Textzeugen der Dritten Zwischenzeit, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, (Studien zum Altägyptischen Totenbuch (SAT) ; 5), 2001, p. 100, 134, no. 328

Faivre-Martin, Évelyne, Hieroglyphs user guide, Paris, Reunion des musées nationaux, 2000, p. 37, ill. p. 37

Andreu, Guillemette; Rigault, Patricia; Traunecker, Claude, The ABCdaire of Ancient Egypt, Paris, Flammarion, 1999, p. 84, ill. p. 84

Andreu, Guillemette; Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène; Ziegler, Christiane, Ancient Egypt at the Louvre, [Louvre Museum, Paris], Paris, Hachette, 1997, p. 163-164; 254, ill. p. 164; p. 165, no. 78

Ziegler, Christiane; Letellier, Bernadette; Delange, Élisabeth; Pierrat-Bonnefois, Geneviève; Barbotin, Christophe; Étienne, Marc, Egyptian antiquities: visitor guide, 1, [Louvre Museum, Paris], Paris, Editions of the National Museums Association, 1997, p. 90

Aston, David A., "The shabti box: a typological study", Oudheidkundige mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (OMRO), 74, 1994, p. 21-54, p. 26-27, 43, 45

Delacampagne, Christian; Lessing, Erich, Immortelle Egypt, Paris, Éditions de la Martinière, 1994, p. 101, ill. p. 101

Bridonneau, Catherine, "The Book of Death and Funeral Customs", Le Monde de la Bible, 78, 1992, p. 29-35, p. 33, fig. 37 p. 33

De Meulenaere, Herman; Clarysse, Willy, "Notes on Theban prosopography", Chronique d'Égypte (CdE), 53, 106, 1978, p. 226-253, p. 228

Beinlich-Seeber, Christine, Untersuchungen zur Darstellung des Totengerichts im alten Ägypten, Munich / Berlin, Deutscher Kunstverlag, (Münchner Ägyptologische Studien (MÄS) ; 35), 1976, p. 215, no. 26

Porter, Bertha; Moss, Rosalind L.B., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings, 1.2, The Theban Necropolis. Royal Tombs and Smaller Cemeteries, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1964, Available at: http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/topbib/pdf/pm1-2.pdf, p. 837

Vandier, Jacques, Summary Guide, [Louvre Museum, Paris. Department of Egyptian Antiquities], Paris, Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1952, p. 69

Vandier, Jacques, Summary Guide, [Louvre Museum, Paris. Department of Egyptian Antiquities], Paris, Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1948, p. 68

Boreux, Charles, Summary catalogue guide, vol.2, First floor halls (Charles X halls), [Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian antiquities], Paris, Editions des musées nationaux, 1932, Available at: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.56340 , p. 327

Champollion, Jean-François, Descriptive notice of Egyptian monuments of the Charles X Museum, Paris, Crapelet printing press, 1827, Available at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1040365n, p. 139, R. 12

Totenbuchprojekt Bonn, [University of Bonn], Available at: https://totenbuch.awk.nrw.de/ , totenbuch.awk.nrw.de/objekt/tm135420, TM 135420

Trismegistos, Available on: <www.trismegistos.org>, www.trismegistos.org/text/135420, TM 135420

EXHIBITION HISTORY
- Journey to the Afterlife. Egyptian Antiquities from the Louvre, Perth (Australia), Art Gallery of western Australia, 21/07/2007 - 28/10/2007, stage of an itinerant exhibition

- Journey to the Afterlife. Egyptian Antiquities from the Louvre, Adelaide (Australia), Art Gallery of South Australia, 21/03/2007 - 01/07/2007, stage of a touring exhibition

- Journey to the Afterlife. Egyptian Antiquities from the Louvre, Canberra (Australia), National Gallery of Australia, 11/17/2006 - 02/25/2007, stage of a touring exhibition

- The Egyptian man according to the masterpieces of the Louvre, Nagoya (Japan), City Art Museum, 29/03/2005 - 22/05/2005

- Eternal Egypt, 4,000 years of history, Taipei (External, Taiwan), Tchang Kaï-Chek Memorial, 21/11/2003 - 28/03/2004

Last updated on 18.03.2024

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Title
Triple Compartment Funeral Servant Box, XXIst Dynasty (attribution according to style) (-1069 - -943 ?), Findspot unknown Egypt, Wood and paint, The Louvre Museum

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010008065

The Louvre Museum


r/ancientegypt • • 18h ago

Photo Votive Statuette / God / Crocodile, Late Period, c.664 - 332 BC, Findspot unknown Egypt, Copper alloy, National Museums of Scotland

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Votive Statuette / God / Crocodile

Copper alloy votive statuette in bronze of Sobek as a crocodile, recumbent wearing the atef crown and uraeus, with inlaid eyes: Ancient Egyptian, Late Period, c.664 - 332 BC

This item is on display
National Museum Of Scotland, Level 5, World Cultures, Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Collection
World Culture

Object number
A.1965.388

Object name
Votive statuette / god / crocodile

Production information
Egypt, Northern Africa
Late Period, Ancient Egypt

Culture / Style
Ancient Egyptian

Materials
Copper alloy

Collection place(s)
Egypt, Northern Africa

Exhibitions
Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
National Museum of Scotland
Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008(2003 - 2008)
Royal Scottish Museum

Title
Votive Statuette / God / Crocodile, Late Period, c.664 - 332 BC, Findspot unknown Egypt, Copper alloy, National Museums of Scotland

https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections/search/object?entry=299567&school-style-generic=ancient+egyptian&page=3&view=cards

National Museums of Scotland


r/ancientegypt • • 1d ago

Photo New scarab!

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I got this to ancient resource, I would highly recommend him. This is a great second piece to my collection, he was amazing to work with.
18-19 dynasty
Ex. Art for eternity collection
More is found in the last image


r/ancientegypt • • 14h ago

Translation Request Pronunciation of wnn-nfrw

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Hi, what would wnn-nfrw (as in Wenenneferu) be in reconstructed pronunciation (not Egyptological). Thank you for your help!


r/ancientegypt • • 1d ago

Discussion Could the flooded Nile reach the Sphinx?

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A long time ago, I was in a debate with a guy about the water erosion on the Sphinx. He reckons the Nile flooded and reached the Sphinx which then caused the erosion. I said it wasn't possible because the Sphinx is on top of a hill and also on the West side of Giza: river on the East. This means if the flood did happen it would have to flood the city of Giza and Cairo.

Do you think it's possible for the Nile to reach the Sphinx and cause water erosion?


r/ancientegypt • • 2d ago

Photo Met Professor Joann Fletcher at a screening of The Mummy this weekend.

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Went to Mummies in the Hall at Smithills Hall in Bolton on Saturday and got to meet Professor Joann Fletcher. I’m a fan of her work, and we had a quick chat about my plans to study Egyptology. I’m currently doing the University of Liverpool’s Go Higher course, so meeting her at this stage of my own journey meant a lot.

The afternoon included a talk and a screening of The Mummy. Didn’t get to ask a question during the session, but came away with a photo and had a brilliant day.

Has anyone else been to one of her talks?


r/ancientegypt • • 2d ago

Photo Single compartment funeral servant box, Ramses II (mention of character) (-1279 - -1212), Findspot TT 1 tomb of Sennedjem (West Cemetery->Deir el-Medina->West Thèbes), Wood and paint, The Louvre Museum

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Single compartment funeral servant box
-1279 / -1212 (Ramesses II)

Place of discovery: TT 1 Sennedjem (?)

E 27147

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

Inventory number Main number: E 27147

Collection Department of Egyptian Antiquities

Description

Object name/Title Designation: coffin for funeral attendants with a single compartment

Description/FeaturesDecoration: front face; couple (seated); woman (pleated dress with sleeves, long enveloping wig, front headband, lotus flower, perfume cone, earrings); man (seated, pleated loincloth, breathable, lotus flower); oudjat eye (2); lion foot chair

Back; right side; left side; rectangles (nested)

Registrations Writing:

hieroglyphic

Nature of the text:
behalf
title

Names and titles
Khâbekenet ; Iset (wife, housekeeper)

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Dimensions Height: 30 cm; Length: 17.8 cm; Width: 18.3 cm

Materials and techniques Material: wood

Technique: painting

PLACES AND DATES

Date Ramses II (mention of character) (-1279 - -1212)

Place of discovery TT 1 tomb of Sennedjem (West Cemetery->Deir el-Medina->West Thèbes)

HISTORY

Object history: Given by the Egyptian government to Gaston Maspero; purchased from an antiquary during a public sale in Drouot on 11/2/1973 (no. 41) by the Banque Belgique Industrielle; bought back from this bank by the Louvre at the beginning of May 1974 (Desroches-Noblecourt 2003).

Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / Dedicatee Industrial Belgium, Seller

Maspero, Gaston, Collector

Acquisition details purchase

Acquisition date public sale date: 02/11/1973 (Drouot)

Committee/commission date: 02/05/1974

Date of the council: 08/05/1974

Owned by State

Held by the Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities

LOCATION OF OBJECT

Current location
Sully, [AE] Room 319 - Book of the Dead, Display Case 3

Mode of acquisition purchase

Name box for funerary servants with a single compartment

Materials wood

Painting techniques

Description/Features lion foot chair - oudjat eye - breathable - left side - right side - front side - back side - couple - lotus flower - woman - man - sitting - earrings - long enveloping wig - forehead band - perfume cone - 2 - pleated dress with sleeves - pleated pañne - interwoven - rectangles

Names and titles
set - Khâbekenet - housekeeper - wife

Period Ramses II

PlacesTT 1 Sennedjem

Nature of textnom - title

Scriptigraphic

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Näser, Claudia, Der Alltag des Todes. Funeräre Praktiken in Deir el-Medine im Neuen Reich, London, Golden House Publications, 2024, Available at: http://www.goldenhp.co.uk/978-1-906137885.pdf, p. 210, 212, 216

Gaber, Hanane; Bazin Rizzo, Laure; Servajean, Frédéric (dir.), At Work: We Know the Artisan... of Pharaoh! A century of French research in Deir el-Medina (1917-2017), exhibition cat. (Cairo, Egyptian Museum, 2017), Milan; Montpellier, Silvana Editoriale, 2017, p. 172

Kraemer, Bryan, "A Tight-Lipped "Shawabti" from Deir el-Medina in the Princeton University Art Museum", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 74, 2015, p. 20-31, p. 29, note 14

Piacentini, Patrizia, "The antiquities path: from the Sale Room of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, through dealers, to private and public collections. A work in progress", in Piacentini, Patrizia; Orsenigo, Christian; Quirke, Stephen G. (eds.), Forming material Egypt: proceedings of the International Conference London 20-21 May, 2013, Milano, Pontremoli, (Egyptian & Egyptological Documents, Archives, Libraries (EDAL) 4), 2013-2014, p. 105-130, p. 110

Donnat, Sylvie (dir.), Mahmoud Abd el-Qader, Adel, Catalogue of funerary objects from the tomb of the Servant in the Place of Truth Sennedjem (TT1): ushabtis, ushabtis in coffins, ushabti boxes, canopic coffins, canopic chests, cosmetic chests, furniture, dummy vases, pottery jars, and walking sticks, mainly from Egyptian Museum in Cairo and Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, Cairo, Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO), (Bibliothèque générale 37), 2011, p. 5-6, 15, 43, cat. 7

Link, Li-Li (dir.), Eternal Egypt: 4000 years of civilization, exhibition cat. (Taipei, November 21, 2003 - November 7, 2004), Taipei, Jio Kuan Culture, Production and Management, 2004, p. 236,295, No. 157

Chaouabtis, pharaonic workers for eternity, cat. exp. (Paris, Louvre Museum, 2003), Paris, Editions of the National Museums Union, 2003, p. 39 note 55, 58 note 118, 51 note 84

Bovot, Jean-Luc, "About the Louvre exhibition "Chaouabtis: pharaonic workers for eternity" ", Egypt, Africa & Orient, 29, 2003, p. 57-62, p. 60

Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane, Under the gaze of the gods, Paris, Albin Michel, (General Library 37), 2003, p. 326-329, fig. XVI

Andreu, Guillemette (dir.), The Artists of Pharaoh. Deir el-Medinah and the Valley of Kings, exhibition cat. (Paris, Louvre Museum, April 15 - July 22, 2002; Brussels, Royal Museums of Art and History, September 10, 2002 - January 12, 2003), Paris / Turnhout, Réunion des musées nationaux (RMN) / Brepols, 2002, p. 298-299, ill. p. 298, no. 246 c

Andreu, Guillemette; Gombert, Florence, Deir el-Medineh: the artisans of the pharaoh, Paris, Hazan, 2002, p. 43

Bovot, Jean-Luc, "The funerary servants of Deir Al-Medina", Egypt, Africa & Orient, 25, 2002, p. 59-64, p. 62, fig. 1 p. 59

Podvin, Jean-Louis, "The funerary furniture of the tomb of Sennedjem", Göttinger Miszellen (GM), 191, 2002, p. 77-84, p. 79 note 10, 81

Ziegler, Christiane; Bovot, Jean-Luc, Art and archaeology: Ancient Egypt, Paris, Louvre School / La Documentation française / National Museums Association, 2001 (Manuals of the Louvre School), p. 240-241, fig. 140 p. 240

Andreu, Guillemette; Rigault, Patricia; Traunecker, Claude, The ABCdaire of Ancient Egypt, Paris, Flammarion, 1999, p. 81, ill. p. 80-81

Eisenberg, Jerome M., "The New Egyptian Galleries at the Louvre", Minerva. The International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology, 9, fasc. 5, 1998, p. 8-14, p. 10, fig. 12

Bovot, Jean-Luc, "The catalogue of funerary servants (shaouabti, ouchebti) of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre Museum", in Eyre, Christopher J. (dir.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge, September 3-9, 1995, Louvain, Peeters, (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta (OLA) ; 82), 1998, p. 201-213, p. 205

Andreu, Guillemette; Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène; Ziegler, Christiane, Ancient Egypt at the Louvre, [Louvre Museum, Paris], Paris, Hachette, 1997, p. 157-158; 254, ill. p. 158, no. 74

Ziegler, Christiane; Letellier, Bernadette; Delange, Élisabeth; Pierrat-Bonnefois, Geneviève; Barbotin, Christophe; Étienne, Marc, The Egyptian antiquities: visitor guide, 1, [Louvre Museum, Paris], Paris, Editions of the National Museums Association, 1997, p. 93, ill. p. 93

Labbé-Toutée, Sophie, "Aspect of a civilization", Fine Arts Special Issue, Special No.: Egypt: Louvre collections, 1997, p. 12-26, fig. 46 p. 25

Podvin, Jean-Louis, Composition, position and orientation of funerary furniture in private Egyptian tombs of the Middle Empire to the Late Period, Lille, National Workshop of Thesis Reproduction, 197, p. 340

Donadoni Roveri, Anna Maria (dir.), Nefertari: Light of Egypt, exhibition cat. (Turin, Palazzo della Promotrice delle Belle Arti, 1995), Rome, 1996, p. 204, ill. p. 204, no. 65

Aston, David A., "The shabti box: a typological study", Oudheidkundige mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (OMRO), 74, 1994, p. 21-54, p. 23

Davies, W. Vivian; Ziegler, Christiane; Donadoni Roveri, Anna Maria; Bierbrier, Morris L.; Barbotin, Christophe; Guidotti, Maria Cristina; Leospo, Enrichetta (dir.), Nefertari: Luce d'Egitto, exhibition cat. (Rome (Italy), Palazzo Ruspoli, October 6, 1994 - February 19, 1995), Italy, Leonardo Arte, 1994, p. 205, fig. p. 205, no. 67

Bresc-Bautier, Geneviève (dir.), Durand, Jannic; Alcouffe, Daniel, Le Louvre. Treasures of the largest museum in the world, Paris, Brussels, Montreal, Zurich, Selection of Reader's Digest, 1991, p. 79, ill. p. 79

Maruéjol, Florence, Egyptian Art at the Louvre, [Musée du Louvre, Paris], Paris, Scala, 1991, p. 85, ill. p. 85

Leclant, Jean, The pharaohs, 2, The empire of conquerors, Paris, Gallimard, (The universe of forms), 1979, fig. 212 p. 219

"Main acquisitions of museums in 1975," La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité. Supplement to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 26, 1286, 1976, p. 1, fig. 2, no. 2

Knowledge of the Arts, Special number on public sales in Paris 1973-1974, 1974, p. 170

EXHIBITION HISTORY
- Nefertari, in search of eternal life, Rome (Italy), Palazzo Ruspoli - Fondazione Memmo, 02/20/1995 - 06/06/1995

- Nefertari: Light of Egypt, Rome (External, Italy), Palazzo Ruspoli - Fondazione Memmo, 06/10/1994 - 19/02/1995

Title
Single compartment funeral servant box, Ramses II (mention of character) (-1279 - -1212), Findspot TT 1 tomb of Sennedjem (West Cemetery->Deir el-Medina->West Thèbes), Wood and paint, The Louvre Museum

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010013300

The Louvre Museum


r/ancientegypt • • 1d ago

Question Are there references in ancient Egyptian texts or art to ethnic/cultural groups such as the Beja, the Bisharin, and the Fellahin?

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I know that the ancient Egyptians were aware of the Medjay, but does that nomadic group of people still exist today as a identifiable ethno-cultural group?


r/ancientegypt • • 1d ago

Photo Mummiform funerary servant, Ramses II (mention of character) (-1279 - -1212), Findspot Deir el-Medina (West Thebes->Thebes->Theban region), Calcium, The Louvre Museum

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Mummiform funerary servant

-1279 / -1212 (Ramesses II)

Place of discovery: Deir el-Medina

E 27149; E 27147 ERR

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

Inventory numberMain number: E 27149

Other inventory number: E 27147 ERR

Collection Department of Egyptian Antiquities

description

Object name/Title Designation: momiform funerary servant

Description/Featuresman (tripartite wig, ousekh necklace, crossed arms, holder, two umbrellas)

Registrations Writing:

Hierarchical (in the back)

hieroglyphic

Nature of the text:

Formula of ouchebtis

Names and titles
Sennedjem (servant-sedjem-ach in the Place of Truth)

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Dimensions Height: 19.4 cm; Width: 6.5 cm; Thickness: 4.3 cm

Materials and techniques Material: limestone

Technique: painting

PLACES AND DATES

Date Ramses II (mention of character) (-1279 - -1212)

Place of discovery Deir el-Medina (West Thebes->Thebes->Theban region)

HISTORY
Object history Given by the Egyptian government to Gaston Maspero; purchased from an antiquary during a public sale in Drouot on 11/2/1973 (no. 40) by the Banque Belgique Industrielle; bought back from this bank by the Louvre at the beginning of May 1974 (Desroches-Noblecourt 2003).

Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / Dedicatee Industrial Belgium, Seller

Maspero, Gaston, Collector

Acquisition details purchase

Acquisition date public sale date: 02/11/1973 (Drouot)

Committee/commission date: 02/05/1974

Date of the council: 08/05/1974

Owned by State

Held by the Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities

LOCATION OF OBJECT

Current location
Sully, [AE] Room 319 - Book of the Dead, Display Case 3

index

Mode of acquisition purchase

Mummiform funerary name servant

Calcium material

Painting techniques

Description/Features Cross-braids - holder - men - ousekh necklace - tripartite wig - two hoods

Names and titles
Sennedjem - servant-sedjem-ach in the Place of Truth

Period Ramsès II

Places Deir el-Medina

Nature of textformule of ouchebtis
Scriptural - hieroglyphic

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Piacentini, Patrizia, "The antiquities path: from the Sale Room of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, through dealers, to private and public collections. A work in progress", in Piacentini, Patrizia; Orsenigo, Christian; Quirke, Stephen G. (eds.), Forming material Egypt: proceedings of the International Conference London 20-21 May, 2013, Milano, Pontremoli, (Egyptian & Egyptological Documents, Archives, Libraries (EDAL) 4), 2013-2014, p. 105-130, p. 110

Donnat, Sylvie (dir.), Mahmoud Abd el-Qader, Adel, Catalogue of funerary objects from the tomb of the Servant in the Place of Truth Sennedjem (TT1): ushabtis, ushabtis in coffins, ushabti boxes, canopic coffins, canopic chests, cosmetic chests, furniture, dummy vases, pottery jars, and walking sticks, mainly from Egyptian Museum in Cairo and Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, Cairo, Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO), (Bibliothèque générale 37), 2011, p. 5-6, 48, cat. 85

Bovot, Jean-Luc, "The funerary servants of artists and artisans in the collections of the Louvre", Egypt, Africa & Orient, 57, 2010, p. 3-14, p. 8, note 30

Link, Li-Li (dir.), Eternal Egypt: 4000 years of civilization, exhibition cat. (Taipei, November 21, 2003 - November 7, 2004), Taipei, Jio Kuan Culture, Production and Management, 2004, p. 236, 295, illus. p. 236, no. 157

Bovot, Jean-Luc, "About the Louvre exhibition "Chaouabtis: pharaonic workers for eternity" ", Egypt, Africa & Orient, 29, 2003, p. 57-62, p. 60

Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane, Under the gaze of the gods, Paris, Albin Michel, (General Library 37), 2003, p. 326-329, fig. XVI

Andreu, Guillemette (dir.), The Artists of Pharaoh. Deir el-Medinah and the Valley of the Kings, exhibition cat. (Paris, Louvre Museum, April 15 - July 22, 2002; Brussels, Royal Museums of Art and History, September 10, 2002 - January 12, 2003), Paris / Turnhout, Réunion des musées nationaux (RMN) / Brepols, 2002, p. 298-299, ill. p. 298, no. 246a

Andreu, Guillemette; Gombert, Florence, Deir el-Medineh: the artisans of the pharaoh, Paris, Hazan, 2002, p. 42

Bovot, Jean-Luc, "The funerary servants of Deir Al-Medina", Egypt, Africa & Orient, 25, 2002, p. 59-64, p. 63, fig. 1 p. 59

Podvin, Jean-Louis, "The funerary furniture of the tomb of Sennedjem", Göttinger Miszellen (GM), 191, 2002, p. 77-84, p. 79 note 10, 82

Egyptian art in the time of the Pharaohs, collections of the Louvre Museum, exhibition cat. (Sao Paulo, Museu de Arte Brasileira, May 2-July 22, 2001), Sao Paulo, Fundaçao Armando Alvares Penteado, 2001, p. 156-158, ill. p. 158, no. 15

Andreu, Guillemette; Rigault, Patricia; Traunecker, Claude, The ABCdaire of Ancient Egypt, Paris, Flammarion, 1999, p. 81, ill. p. 80-81

Bovot, Jean-Luc, "The catalogue of funerary servants (shaouabti, ouchebti) of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre Museum", in Eyre, Christopher J. (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge, September 3-9, 1995, Louvain, Peeters, (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta (OLA) ; 82), 1998, p. 201-213

Andreu, Guillemette; Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène; Ziegler, Christiane, Ancient Egypt at the Louvre, [Louvre Museum, Paris], Paris, Hachette, 1997, p. 157-158; 254, ill. p. 158, no. 74

Ziegler, Christiane; Letellier, Bernadette; Delange, Élisabeth; Pierrat-Bonnefois, Geneviève; Barbotin, Christophe; Étienne, Marc, Egyptian antiquities: visitor guide, 1, [Louvre Museum, Paris], Paris, Editions of the National Museums Association, 1997, p. 94

Donadoni Roveri, Anna Maria (dir.), Nefertari: Light of Egypt, exhibition cat. (Turin, Palazzo della Promotrice delle Belle Arti, 1995), Rome, 1996, p. 205, ill. p. 205, no. 67

Davies, W. Vivian; Ziegler, Christiane; Donadoni Roveri, Anna Maria; Bierbrier, Morris L.; Barbotin, Christophe; Guidotti, Maria Cristina; Leospo, Enrichetta (dir.), Nefertari: Luce d'Egitto, exhibition cat. (Rome (Italy), Palazzo Ruspoli, October 6, 1994 - February 19, 1995), Italy, Leonardo Arte, 1994, p. 204, illus. p. 204, no. 66

Bridonneau, Catherine, "The Book of Death and Funeral Customs", Le Monde de la Bible, 78, 1992, p. 29-35, p. 33, fig. 38 p. 35

Spanel, Donald B., "Notes on the terminology for funerary figurines", Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur (SAK), 13, 1986, p. 249-253, p. 252 note 17

Leclant, Jean, The pharaohs, 2, The empire of conquerors, Paris, Gallimard, (The universe of forms), 1979, fig. 265 p. 255

"Major acquisitions of museums in 1975," La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité. Supplement to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 26, 1286, 1976, p. 82

Knowledge of the Arts, Special number on public sales in Paris 1973-1974, 1974, p. 170

EXHIBITION HISTORY
- Eternal Egypt, 4,000 years of history, Taipei (External, Taiwan), Tchang Kaï-Chek Memorial, 21/11/2003 - 28/03/2004

- The Pharaoh artists, Deir El-Medineh and the Valley of the Kings, Brussels (Belgium), Royal Museums of Art and History, 09/11/2002 - 01/12/2003

- Egyptian art in the time of the Pharaohs, collections of the Louvre Museum, Sao Paulo (Brazil), Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation, 02/05/2001 - 22/07/2001

- Nefertari: Light of Egypt, Turin (Italy), Palazzo della Promotrice delle Belle Arti, 12/15/1995 - 04/07/1996

- Nefertari: Light of Egypt, Rome (External, Italy), Palazzo Ruspoli - Fondazione Memmo, 06/10/1994 - 19/02/1995

Title
Mummiform funerary servant, Ramses II (mention of character) (-1279 - -1212), Findspot Deir el-Medina (West Thebes->Thebes->Theban region), Calcium, The Louvre Museum

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010007857

The Louvre Museum


r/ancientegypt • • 19h ago

Information Did the 300 young courtiers at Abydos know they were going to be buried with King Djer, or was it a surprise?

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I have been reading through Flinders Petrie's original excavation notes and the later German reports by Günter Dreyer on Umm el-Qa'ab.

Around 3000 BC, King Djer was buried surrounded by over 300 small subsidiary graves. The skeletal analysis shows they were mostly young men and women in their late teens and early twenties, laid out in neat rows. What is crazy is that the mudbrick roofs were sealed while the mortar was still wet, so it was clearly done as a single ceremony.

There is no skull trauma or signs of a violent struggle, so researchers generally assume poison or strangulation was used.

I put together a quick 28-second visual clip showing how the subsidiary graves actually surround the main chamber: https://youtube.com/shorts/5wR-UTBQhzI

Do you guys lean toward this being an ultimate religious honor they signed up for, or was it pure political intimidation to keep the royal household in line?


r/ancientegypt • • 2d ago

Photo Mummy form funerary servant, Ramses II (mention of character) (-1279 - -1212), Findspot Deir el-Medina, Calcium and paint, The Louvre Museum

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Mummy form funerary servant

-1279 / -1212 (Ramesses II)

Place of discovery: Deir el-Medina

E 27148

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

Inventory numberMain number: E 27148

Collection Department of Egyptian Antiquities

description

Object name/Title Designation: momiform funerary servant

Description/Features

Registrations Writing:

hieroglyphic

Nature of the text:

Formula of ouchebtis

Names and titles Khâbekenet (servant-sédjem-âch in the Place of Truth)

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Dimensions Height: 18.9 cm; Width: 6.3 cm; Thickness: 3.8 cm

Materials and techniques Material: limestone

Technique: painting

Color: white-black-ocre red-ocre yellow

PLACES AND DATES

Date Ramses II (mention of character) (-1279 - -1212)

Place of discoveryDeir el-Medina (West Thebes->Thebes->Theban region)

HISTORY

Object history Given by the Egyptian government to Gaston Maspero; purchased from an antiquary during a public sale in Drouot on 11/2/1973 (no. 39) by the Banque Belgique Industrielle; bought back from this bank by the Louvre at the beginning of May 1974 (Desroches-Noblecourt 2003).

Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / Dedicatee Industrial Belgium, Seller

Maspero, Gaston, Collector

Acquisition details purchase

Acquisition date public sale date: 02/11/1973 (Drouot)

Committee/commission date: 02/05/1974

Date of the council: 08/05/1974

Owned by State

Held by the Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities

LOCATION OF OBJECT

Current location
Sully, [AE] Room 319 - Book of the Dead, Display Case 3

index

Mode of acquisition purchase

Mummy form funerary servant

Calcium material

Painting techniques

Names and titles
Khâbekenet - servant-sédjem-âch in the Place of Truth

Period Ramsès II

Places Deir el-Medina

Nature of textformule of ouchebtis
Scriptigraphic

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Näser, Claudia, Der Alltag des Todes. Funeräre Praktiken in Deir el-Medine im Neuen Reich, London, Golden House Publications, 2024, Available at: http://www.goldenhp.co.uk/978-1-906137885.pdf, p. 212, 218

Farout, Dominique, Ancient Egypt and hieroglyphs, Paris, Louvre editions; Flammarion jeunesse, 2022, ill. p. 51

Kraemer, Bryan, "A Tight-Lipped "Shawabti" from Deir el-Medina in the Princeton University Art Museum", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, 74, 2015, p. 20-31, p. 29, note 14, 21

Piacentini, Patrizia, "The antiquities path: from the Sale Room of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, through dealers, to private and public collections. A work in progress", in Piacentini, Patrizia; Orsenigo, Christian; Quirke, Stephen G. (eds.), Forming material Egypt: proceedings of the International Conference London 20-21 May, 2013, Milano, Pontremoli, (Egyptian & Egyptological Documents, Archives, Libraries (EDAL) 4), 2013-2014, p. 105-130, p. 110

Donnat, Sylvie (dir.), Mahmoud Abd el-Qader, Adel, Catalogue of funerary objects from the tomb of the Servant in the Place of Truth Sennedjem (TT1): ushabtis, ushabtis in coffins, ushabti boxes, canopic coffins, canopic chests, cosmetic chests, furniture, dummy vases, pottery jars, and walking sticks, mainly from Egyptian Museum in Cairo and Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, Cairo, Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO), (General Library 37), 2011, p. 5-6, 16-17, 45, cat. 27

Chaouabtis, pharaonic workers for eternity, cat. exp. (Paris, Louvre Museum, 2003), Paris, Editions of the National Museums Association, 2003, p. 51 note 85, 58 note 119

Bovot, Jean-Luc, "About the Louvre exhibition "Chaouabtis: pharaonic workers for eternity" ", Egypt, Africa & Orient, 29, 2003, p. 57-62, p. 60

Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane, Under the gaze of the gods, Paris, Albin Michel, (General Library 37), 2003, p. 326-329, fig. XVI

Andreu, Guillemette (dir.), The Artists of Pharaoh. Deir el-Medinah and the Valley of the Kings, exhibition cat. (Paris, Louvre Museum, April 15 - July 22, 2002; Brussels, Royal Museums of Art and History, September 10, 2002 - January 12, 2003), Paris / Turnhout, Réunion des musées nationaux (RMN) / Brepols, 2002, p. 298-299, ill. p. 299, no. 246b

Andreu, Guillemette; Gombert, Florence, Deir el-Medineh: the artisans of the pharaoh, Paris, Hazan, 2002, p. 42

Bovot, Jean-Luc, "The funerary servants of Deir Al-Medina", Egypt, Africa & Orient, 25, 2002, p. 59-64, p. 62, fig. 1 p. 59; fig. 2 p. 62

Podvin, Jean-Louis, "The funerary furniture of the tomb of Sennedjem", Göttinger Miszellen (GM), 191, 2002, p. 77-84, p. 79 note 10, 81

Ziegler, Christiane; Bovot, Jean-Luc, Art and archaeology: Ancient Egypt, Paris, Louvre School / La Documentation française / National Museums Association, 2001 (Manuals of the Louvre School), p. 240-241, fig. 140 p. 240

Andreu, Guillemette; Rigault, Patricia; Traunecker, Claude, The ABCdaire of Ancient Egypt, Paris, Flammarion, 1999, p. 81, ill. p. 80-81

Eisenberg, Jerome M., "The New Egyptian Galleries at the Louvre", Minerva. The International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology, 9, fasc. 5, 1998, p. 8-14, p. 10, fig. 12

Bovot, Jean-Luc, "The catalogue of funerary servants (shaouabti, ouchebti) of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre Museum", in Eyre, Christopher J. (dir.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge, September 3-9, 1995, Louvain, Peeters, (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta (OLA) ; 82), 1998, p. 201-213, p. 205, 207, fig. 3

Andreu, Guillemette; Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène; Ziegler, Christiane, Ancient Egypt at the Louvre, [Louvre Museum, Paris], Paris, Hachette, 1997, p. 157-158; 254, ill. p. 158, no. 74

Ziegler, Christiane; Letellier, Bernadette; Delange, Élisabeth; Pierrat-Bonnefois, Geneviève; Barbotin, Christophe; Étienne, Marc, The Egyptian antiquities: visitor guide, 1, [Louvre Museum, Paris], Paris, Editions of the National Museums Association, 1997, p. 93, ill. p. 93

Labbé-Toutée, Sophie, "Aspect of a civilization", Fine Arts Special Issue, Special No.: Egypt: Louvre collections, 1997, p. 12-26, fig. 46 p. 25

Podvin, Jean-Louis, Composition, position and orientation of funerary furniture in private Egyptian tombs of the Middle Empire to the Late Period, Lille, National Workshop of Thesis Reproduction, 197, p. 337

Donadoni Roveri, Anna Maria (dir.), Nefertari: Light of Egypt, exhibition cat. (Turin, Palazzo della Promotrice delle Belle Arti, 1995), Rome, 1996, p. 204, ill. p. 204, no. 66

Davies, W. Vivian; Ziegler, Christiane; Donadoni Roveri, Anna Maria; Bierbrier, Morris L.; Barbotin, Christophe; Guidotti, Maria Cristina; Leospo, Enrichetta (dir.), Nefertari: Luce d'Egitto, exhibition cat. (Rome (Italy), Palazzo Ruspoli, October 6, 1994 - February 19, 1995), Italy, Leonardo Arte, 1994, p. 204, illus. p. 204, no. 65

Bresc-Bautier, Geneviève (dir.), Durand, Jannic; Alcouffe, Daniel, Le Louvre. Treasures of the largest museum in the world, Paris, Brussels, Montreal, Zurich, Selection of Reader's Digest, 1991, p. 79, ill. p. 79

Maruéjol, Florence, Egyptian Art at the Louvre, [Musée du Louvre, Paris], Paris, Scala, 1991, p. 85, ill. p. 85

"Major acquisitions of museums in 1975," La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité. Supplement to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 26, 1286, 1976, p. 82

Knowledge of the Arts, Special number on public sales in Paris 1973-1974, 1974, p. 170

EXHIBITION HISTORY
- The Pharaoh artists, Deir El-Medineh and the Valley of the Kings, Brussels (Belgium), Royal Museums of Art and History, 09/11/2002 - 01/12/2003

- Nefertari: Light of Egypt, Turin (Italy), Palazzo della Promotrice delle Belle Arti, 12/15/1995 - 04/07/1996

- Nefertari, in search of eternal life, Rome (Italy), Palazzo Ruspoli - Fondazione Memmo, 02/20/1995 - 06/06/1995

- Nefertari: Light of Egypt, Rome (External, Italy), Palazzo Ruspoli - Fondazione Memmo, 06/10/1994 - 19/02/1995
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Title
Mummy form funerary servant, Ramses II (mention of character) (-1279 - -1212), Findspot Deir el-Medina, Calcium and paint, The Louvre Museum

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010012992

The Louvre Museum


r/ancientegypt • • 2d ago

Other Smithsonian Magazine: A Farmer in Egypt Stumbled Upon a Pink Stone and Called the Authorities; They Found the Remains of Two Colossal Statues of Ramses II Beneath the Property

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r/ancientegypt • • 1d ago

Translation Request Translation help

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My reading so far has been imn-r3 nebw, but I don’t think that the third line that would indicate the w is actually a part of that word/meaning. I’m also new to this so help is greatly appreciated


r/ancientegypt • • 2d ago

Information I know nothing about this lovely object other than that my Dad bought it on a yard sale. Does anyone have any info that they can share to help me start my research? I am new here, hope this post is OK, if there is a more appropriate sub please let me know. Many Thanks!

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r/ancientegypt • • 2d ago

News A Farmer in Egypt Stumbled Upon a Pink Stone and Called the Authorities. They Found the Remains of Two Colossal Statues of Ramses II Beneath the Property

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r/ancientegypt • • 2d ago

Question How true is the claim “Egyptian mummies are rare because people used to eat them as medicine”?

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r/ancientegypt • • 3d ago

News Ancient Egyptians sacrificed servants when kings died, forensic tests show

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r/ancientegypt • • 2d ago

Photo Double-layered compartment funeral servant box, XIXth dynasty; XXth dynasty (known character) (character mention) (-1295 - -1069), Findspot unknown Egypt, Wood straw?, The Louvre Museum

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Double-layered compartmentfuneral servant box

-1295 / -1069 (19th dynasty; 20th dynasty)

N 2642; Salt no. 3297?

Department of Egyptian AntiquitiesInventory number
Main number: N 2642

Previous coll. no.: Salt no. 3297?

Collection Department of Egyptian Antiquities

description

Object name/Title Designation: double-layered per-nou funeral servant's box

Description/Features box set; box lid (2)

Decoration: front face; funerary meal; man (oosekh collar, banner-like loincloth, holding, khérep scepter, sitting on) ; lion's foot chair

Right side; left side; back side; rectangles (nested)

Registrations Writing:

hieroglyphic

Nature of the text:

behalf

Names and titlesIyrnioutef

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Dimensions Height: 33.5 cm; Width: 22.7 cm; Thickness: 13.7 cm

Materials and techniques Material: wood

Secondary material: straw (?) (inside the box)

Technique: painting

PLACES AND DATES

Date XIXth dynasty; XXth dynasty (known character) (character mention) (-1295 - -1069)

HISTORY

Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / DedicateeSalt, Henry, Seller; Collector

Acquisition details purchase

Acquisition date date of registration in the inventory: 1826

Owned by State

Held by the Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities

RENTAL OF OBJECT

Current location

Sully, [AE] Room 319 - Book of the Dead, Display Case 3

index

Mode of acquisition purchase

Name box for double-layered funeral serving trays in per

Materials wood - straw

Painting techniques

Description/Features box cover - box - lion footstool - holder - left side - right side - front - back - funeral meal - man - sitting on - ousekh necklace - 2 - khérep scepter - banner - interlocking - rectangles

Names and titlesIyrnioutef

Period XIX dynasty - XX dynasty

Nature of textnom

Scriptigraphic

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Andreu, Guillemette; Desclaux, Vanessa; Virenque, Hélène (dir.), The Champollion Adventure, in the secret of the hieroglyphs, exhibition cat. (Paris (External, France), National Library of France, François-Mitterrand site, 04/12/2022-07/24/2022), Paris, National Library of France, 2022, p. 236

The Invention of the Louvre, cat. exp. (Beijing, National Museum of China, 2017), Beijing, 2017

Pomarède, Vincent; Mathieux, Néguine (dir.), The Invention of the Louvre, exhibition catalogue (Beijing (External, China), National Museum of China, 2017), Beijing, National Museum of China / Louvre editions, 2017

Torres, Pascal; Mathieux, Néguine; Pomarède, Vincent (dir.), The Invention of the Louvre, exhibition cat. (Hong Kong (China), Heritage Museum, 2017), Hong Kong, Louvre Museum, 2017

Guichard, Sylvie (dir.), Champollion, Jean-François, Descriptive notice of Egyptian monuments of the Charles X Museum, Paris, Louvre editions / editions Khéops, 2013, p. 287, ill. p. 286, R. 3 or 4

Chaouabtis, pharaonic workers for eternity, cat. exp. (Paris, Louvre Museum, 2003), Paris, Editions of the National Museums Association, 2003, p. 41, 84, no. 83

Janes, Glenn, Shabtis, private view. Ancient Egyptian funerary statuettes in European private collections, Paris, Cybèle, 2002, p. 14-15

Aston, David A., "The shabti box: a typological study", Oudheidkundige mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (OMRO), 74, 1994, p. 21-54, p. 24, 44

Kitchen, Kenneth Anderson, Ramesside Inscriptions. Historical and Biographical, 5, Oxford, B.H. Blackwell Ltd, 1970-1983, p. 662, no. 248, B.VIII.1, 2

Letellier, Bernadette (dir.), Everyday life among the artisans of the pharaohs, exhibition cat. (Metz, Metz Museums, November 12, 1978-February 28, 1979), Metz, Metz Museums, 1978, p. 104, ill. p. 105, no. 140

Porter, Bertha; Moss, Rosalind L.B., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings, 1.2, The Theban Necropolis. Royal Tombs and Smaller Cemeteries, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1964, Available at: http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/topbib/pdf/pm1-2.pdf, p. 747

Vandier, Jacques, Summary Guide, [Louvre Museum, Paris. Department of Egyptian Antiquities], Paris, Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1952, p. 53

Vandier, Jacques, Summary Guide, [Louvre Museum, Paris. Department of Egyptian Antiquities], Paris, Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1948, p. 52

Bruyère, Bernard, Mert Seger in Deir el Médineh, Cairo, Printing House of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (IFAO), (Memoirs published by the members of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (MIFAO); 58), 1930, p. 16

Champollion, Jean-François, Descriptive notice of Egyptian monuments of the Charles X Museum, Paris, Crapelet Printing House, 1827, Available at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1040365n, p. 137, R. 3 or 4

EXHIBITION HISTORY

- The Champollion adventure: in the secret of the hieroglyphs, Paris (External, France), National Library of France, François Mitterrand site, 04/12/2022 - 07/24/2022

- The Invention of the Louvre, Heritage Museum, 04/26/2017 - 07/24/2017, stage of an itinerant exhibition

- The Invention of the Louvre, Beijing (External, China), National Museum of China, 01/12/2017 - 03/31/2017, stage of a touring exhibition

- Daily life among the pharaonic artisans, Metz (External, France), Museum of Art and History, 11/12/1978 - 02/28/1979

Last updated on 24.11.2025

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Title
Double-layered compartment funeral servant box, XIXth dynasty; XXth dynasty (known character) (character mention) (-1295 - -1069), Findspot unknown Egypt, Wood straw?, The Louvre Museum

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010008139

The Louvre Museum


r/ancientegypt • • 3d ago

Photo Funerary mask, Late Roman Period, 200-300 AD, Findspot Deir el-Bahari? Upper Egypt, Painted and plastered cartonnage, National Museums of Scotlandk

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Funerary mask

Funerary mask and shroud of painted and plastered cartonnage, depicting a woman wearing a decorated wreath, tunic and holding a vase in one hand : Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, probably Deir el-Bahari, Late Roman Period, 200-300 AD

This item is not on display

Collection
World Culture

Object number
A.1956.1187

Object name
Funerary mask, Shroud

Production information
Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa
Roman Period
3rd century

Culture / Style
Ancient Egyptian

Collection place(s)
Deir el-Bahari, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations
Previous owner: Rhind, Alexander Henry, 1833 - 1863

Exhibitions
Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008(2003 - 2008)
Royal Scottish Museum

References
MURRAY, M A 1900. Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland).33
PARLASCA, K 1966. Mumienporträts und verwandte Denkmäler (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz).44, n.185, 128.143, n.135, 188.207 n.76, 209, pl. 52, 1, 3
GRIMM, G 1974. Die römische Mumienmasken aus Ägypten (Wiesbaden: Frank Steiner). 25, 95 n.32
WALKER S & M BIERBRIER 1997. Ancient Faces. Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt (London: British Museum Press).158-159[178]
RIGGS, C 2000. “Roman Period Mummy Masks from Deir el-Bahri”, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 86: pp. 121-144131, 141[1]
RIGGS, C & M DEPAUW 2002. “«Soternalia» from Deir el-Bahri, including Two Coffin Lids with Demotic Inscriptions”, Revue d’Égyptologie 53: p.89 with n. 57
RIGGS, C., 2005. The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt: Art, Identity and Funerary Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press).232-233, 296 [128]
Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), Cat. 63, p.144

Title
Funerary mask, Late Roman Period, 200-300 AD, Findspot Deir el-Bahari? Upper Egypt, Painted and plastered cartonnage, National Museums of Scotland

https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections/search/object?entry=300377&object-name=Shroud&page=1&view=cards

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Photo Funerary mask 01, Roman Period, c20 BC - 70 AD Roman Period, Findspot Hawara Middle Egypt, Cartonnage plaster and gold, National Museums of Scotland

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Funerary Mask 01

Funerary mask of cartonnage, painted in red blue black green and pink, with gilded gold face, and scenes of gods: Ancient Egyptian, Hawara, Middle Egypt, Roman Period, c20 BC - 70 AD

This item is on display
National Museum Of Scotland, Level 5, World Cultures, Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
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Collection
World Culture

Object number
A.1911.275

Object name
Funerary mask

Production information
Hawara, Middle Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa
Roman Period

Culture / Style
Roman Period, Ancient Egyptian

Materials
Cartonnage, Plaster, Gold

Collection place(s)
Hawara, Middle Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations
Depicted: Isis
Depicted: Nephthys

Hilton Price Collection
Collector: Hilton Price, Frederick George, 1842 - 1909
Excavator: Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Professor Sir, 1853 - 1942

Exhibitions
Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
National Museum of Scotland

References
Hilton Price, F. G. (1897 and 1908), A Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the possession of F. G. Hilton Price, 2 Vols, London: Quaritch. 27.
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (1911), Catalogue of the important and extensive collection of Egyptian antiquities, the property of the late F. G. Hilton-Price, Esq. Lot no. 1043.
1897. A Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Collection of F. G. Hilton Price, Dir.S.A. London: Bernard Quaritch, p. 5 (no. 27)
Manley, B. and Dodson, A. (2010), Life Everlasting: national Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins, pp.130-131

Title
Funerary mask 01, Roman Period, c20 BC - 70 AD Roman Period, Findspot Hawara Middle Egypt, Cartonnage plaster and gold, National Museums of Scotland

https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections/search/object?entry=300044&school-style-generic=ancient+egyptian&hasImage=true&material=Cartonnage&page=1&view=cards

National Museums of Scotland