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Fragment of a wall painting from the tomb of Nabamun, from Thebes, 18th dynasty,around 1350 BCE. Musicians and dancers entertain the guests at a banquet,dressed in typical festive clothing of the period. The women wear heavy wigs and cones of scented fat. They sniff the lotus flower and the round mandrake fruit. The scene hints subtly at rebirth and new life. EA,37984
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Fragment of a wall painting from the tomb of Nabamun, from Thebes, 18th dynasty...

Fragment of a wall painting from the tomb of Nabamun, from Thebes, 18th dynasty,around 1350 BCE. Guests are dressed in festive clothing of the period. The women wear heavy wigs and cones of scented fat. They sniff the lotus flower and the round mandrake fruit. The scene hints subtly at rebirth and new life. Detail Upper register) of /51 EA,37984
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Fragment of a wall painting from the tomb of Nabamun, from Thebes, 18th dynasty...

Head of the cow Hathor, 18th dynasty, around 1450 BCE.The cult statue of Hathor originally had horns and wore a feather headdress, both probably gilded. The eyes were inlaid with rock crystal and lapis lazuli; the colour white was associated with sacredness and purity. From the shrine of Hathor at Deir el-Bahri.Hatshepsut's self-proclaimed divine birth and Hathor's role as a fertility goddess meant that many women left offerings at the shrine in the hope of conceiving a child. EA, 42179
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Head of the cow Hathor, 18th dynasty, around 1450 BCE.The cult statue of Hathor...

Fragment of the beard of the Great Spinx (New Kingdom, 14th BCE?). Part of the plaited, "divine" type of beard, depicted on gods and the dead, rather than kings and the living. The beard was probably added during restoration work in the 18th dynasty (1550-1295 Mill.BCE) and fell off in antiquity. EA, 58
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Fragment of the beard of the Great Spinx (New Kingdom, 14th BCE?). Part of the...

Faience vessel decorated with a depiction of the god Heh, from tomb 61,Enkomi, cyprus. The vase is made in the form of a closed lotus flower and decorated with a picture of Heh. The first meaning of "Heh" was "millions", but heh was reansformed into the Egyptian god of infinity by association with symbols for year and for rebirth. The god is shown in his ususal guise as a kneeling man holding notched palm ribs in each hand. GR, 1897.4-1.999
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Faience vessel decorated with a depiction of the god Heh, from tomb 61,Enkomi, c...

Mummy of a cat, from Abydos, Upper Egypt Roman period, perhaps 1st century. Animals associated with deities were redularly mummified in later periods. The main concentration of cat burials was at sites with an association with a feline deity.It seems likely that a cult was made periodically in the temple catteries to provide subjects for mummification and sale to the pious. The purchase and burial of an animal mummy in a specially designed catacomb was seen as a pious act towards the deity represented by the animal. EA, 37348
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Mummy of a cat, from Abydos, Upper Egypt Roman period, perhaps 1st century. Ani...

Terracotta figurine of a woman riding on a pig, Hellenistic, Egypt, 1st BCE. It shows a large pig, bearing on its back a fat woman riding side-saddle, naked apart from the tall headdress and the long veil that covers it. This object is a calathus, a measuring vessel for corn and the stele or shrine in her left arm shows that she may be linked to Demeter, goddess of corn and fertility. GR, 1926.9-30.48
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Terracotta figurine of a woman riding on a pig, Hellenistic, Egypt, 1st BCE. It...

Bronze oil-lamps with a leaping ibex, from ancient South Arabia, probably 5th-4th BCE. Several bronze oil lamps have been discovered that are decorated with an ibex, a popular decorative motif of the region. See also 08-02-12/67, 08-02-16/9, 08-050-8/52. The animal has a hole through the right foreleg, which maz\y have been used to suspend an object. ANE, 139621
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Bronze oil-lamps with a leaping ibex, from ancient South Arabia, probably 5th-4t...

Calcite relief with the head of an oryx, Sabaean, from Yemen, 1st BCE - 1st CE. During the later part of the first millenium BCE and into the Roman period a prosperous civilization, based largely upon trade in incense, grew up in the area of modern Yemen. ANE, 135307
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Calcite relief with the head of an oryx, Sabaean, from Yemen, 1st BCE - 1st CE....

Sphinx with proto-Sinaitic inscriptions, from Serabit el-Khadim, Sinai, Middle Kingdom, around 1800 BCE. The semi-precious stone turquoise was extracted here from the Middle Kingdom onwards. Hathor, the goddess associated with turquoise, is named in the hieroglyphic inscription on the right shoulder. The proto-sinaitic inscription includes a similar name, the inscriptions are therefore bilingial, like the Rosetta stone. EA 41748
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Sphinx with proto-Sinaitic inscriptions, from Serabit el-Khadim, Sinai, Middle K...

Coffin for a mummified cat, Egypt, Roman Period, after 30 BC. This example has a green painted head and a white body. The coffin shape reproduces the external appearance of the cat squatting on its haunches. The cat was closely associated with the goddess Bastet and many mummified examples have been found in cemeteries at Bubastis in the Delta, the goddess' main cult centre. The mummies were sometimes placed inside coffins made of wood or bronze. Two main species of cats are known from ancient Egypt, the swamp or jungle cat (Felis chaus) and the African wild cat (Felis silvestris libyca). Mummies of both species were made during the first millennium BC, though the majority of examples identified so far have been African wild cats EA, 22753
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Coffin for a mummified cat, Egypt, Roman Period, after 30 BC. This example has a...

Scene in the swamps of the Nile river Around 1450-1400 BCE (in the middle of the 18th dynasty) Thebes, tomb of Neferhetep paint on mud, 43 x 74,50cm E 13101
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Scene in the swamps of the Nile river Around 1450-1400 BCE (in the middle of th...