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Agriculture

AGRICULTURE

Clothing and Textiles

CLOTHING AND TEXTILES

Furniture

FURNITURE

Illness and Diseases

ILLNESS AND DISEASES

Industry

INDUSTRY

Leisure

LEISURE

Work

WORK

8,731 photos
A Nubian and an Asiatic prisoner                       
fettered at the elbows.                                
Painted soles of two sandals.                          
New Kingdom (1554-1080 BCE), Egypt.                    
Drovetti Collection
#08010839

A Nubian and an Asiatic prisoner fettered at the elbows....

Asian prisoner with short beard and head band.         
Incrustation, Egyptian faience (glazed tile)           
Ramesside period (1320-1085 BCE)                       
from Mesopotamia (Iraq)                                
H: 8,7 cm                       AEO 18966
#08010841

Asian prisoner with short beard and head band. Incrustation, Egyptian f...

Egyptian officials, woman with 2 children on her       
shoulders. Bas relief from the tomb of Horemheb,       
viceroy under Amenophis IV (1365-1347 BCE), then       
Pharaoh (1332-1305 BCE), 19th Dynasty, New Kingdom.    
From Horemheb's tomb in Saqqara,Egypt.
#08010855

Egyptian officials, woman with 2 children on her shoulders. Bas relief fr...

Woman with 2 children on her shoulders. Detail         
of 08-01-08/55. Bas-relief from tomb of Horemheb,      
viceroy under Amenophis IV (1365-1347 BCE),            
then Pharaoh (1332-1305 BCE),19th Dynasty,New Kingdom. 
From Horemheb's tomb in Saqqara,Egypt.                 
Detail of 08-01-08/55
#08010856

Woman with 2 children on her shoulders. Detail of 08-01-08/55. Bas-rel...

Farmers presenting insatisfactory accounts, supervisors
beating the farmers. Bas-relief with traces of         
paint from the mastaba of the official Akhtihetep.     
5th Dynasty (25th-23rd BCE), Old Kingdom, Egypt.       
E 10 958
#08010859

Farmers presenting insatisfactory accounts, supervisors beating the farmers. Bas...

Shepherd Anier with his donkey. Mural from the         
tomb of the high official Iti (about 2100 BCE).        
1st Intermediate Period/Early Middle                   
Kingdom (22nd-20th BCE), Egypt.                        
41x 70 cm
#08010861

Shepherd Anier with his donkey. Mural from the tomb of the high officia...

Labours of the field. Clearing wood, plowing, etc.     
Mural from the tomb of Mennah, scribe and field        
inspector, 18th Dynasty (1555-1350 BCE), New Kingdom,  
Shaykh Abd el-Qurna, Thebes, Egypt.
#08010863

Labours of the field. Clearing wood, plowing, etc. Mural from the tomb of M...

Field labourers ploughing by hand.                     
Mural from the tomb of Mennah,                         
scribe and field inspector.                            
18th Dynasty (1555-1350 BCE), New Kingdom,             
Shaykh Abd el-Qurna, Egypt.
#08010864

Field labourers ploughing by hand. Mural from the tomb of M...

Agricultural scene. Delivery of corn with baskets.     
Mural from the tomb of Ounsou, Thebes.                 
19th Dynasty (1305-1196 BCE),                          
New Kingdom, Egypt.                                    
N 1431
#08010865

Agricultural scene. Delivery of corn with baskets. Mural from the tomb of O...

Agricultural scene. Corn emptied into silo.            
Mural from the tomb of Ounsou, Thebes.                 
19th Dynasty (1350-1200 BCE),                          
New Kingdom, Egypt.                                    
N 1430
#08010866

Agricultural scene. Corn emptied into silo. Mural from the tomb of O...

A male head, so called "reserve-head",from a tomb near 
Giza, Egypt. When the art of embalming was not yet     
far advanced, such sculpted heads were laid in the     
tomb in case the mummy's head was damaged by decay.    
Limestone, around 2.450 BCE, 4th Dynasty, Old Kingdom.
#080109 1

A male head, so called "reserve-head",from a tomb near Giza, Egypt. When the ar...

A male head, so-called "reserve head" from a tomb near 
Giza,Egypt.When the art of embalming was not yet far   
advanced, such sculpted heads were laid in the tomb    
in case the mummy's head was damaged by decay.         
Limestone, around 2.450 BCE, 4th Dynasty, Old Kingdom.
#080109 2

A male head, so-called "reserve head" from a tomb near Giza,Egypt.When the art...