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Painted limestone statue of Nenkheftka
This statue comes from Nenkheftka's tomb at Deshasha. Free-s…
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Painted mummy case of an unnamed man
The British Museum has a number of mummy cases from a tomb a…
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Painted plaster from the exterior of a house
Finds of painted plaster show that Egyptian houses were orig…
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Painted pottery group of cattle
The clay from which it is made was fired to only a low tempe…
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Painted votive cloth
A votive object is one that is offered to a deity, often wit…
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Painted wooden cippus showing Horus standing on crocodiles
A cippus was a type of stela that healed and protected again…
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Painted wooden coffin of Bakrenes
The face of this mummiform coffin represents Bakrenes in the…
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Painted wooden figure of a crouching baboon
The baboon was associated with several deities, in particula…
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Painted wooden figure of Osiris
From the Nineteenth Dynasty (about 1295-1186 BC), figures of…
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Painted wooden lion's head
Churches and other religious buildings were highly decorated…
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Painted wooden paddle doll with mud beads for hair
Female figurines were included in burials from the Predynast…
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Pair of ivory clappers
These ivory clappers are made in the form of a pair of hands…
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Papyrus from the Abusir papyri
The Abusir papyri are the most important set of administrati…
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Papyrus from the Book of the Dead of Anhai
The final judgement of the deceased was a popular vignette (…
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Papyrus from the Book of the Dead of Ani
This scene from the Book of the Dead of Ani reads from left …
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Papyrus from the Book of the Dead of Ani
These vignettes (small scenes that illustrate the text) acco…
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Papyrus from the Book of the Dead of Ani
Chapter 17 of the Book of the Dead is a long and complicated…
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Papyrus from the Book of the Dead of Nakht
Nakht was a royal scribe and overseer of the army (general) …
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Papyrus from the Book of the Dead of Nakht
Nakht was a royal scribe and overseer of the army ('general'…
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Papyrus from the Book of the Dead of Nakht
Nakht was a royal scribe and overseer of the army (general) …
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Papyrus from the Book of the Dead of Nedjmet
Some ten years before it was drawn to the attention of Egypt…
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Papyrus letter to Paiankh
A large number of papyri were found in Western Thebes in the…
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Papyrus with a calendar of lucky and unlucky days
It was important to many people whether a day is lucky or no…
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Papyrus with the will of Neskhonsu
A number of document archives have survived from the area ar…
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Part of a calcite canopic jar with a sketch of a saint
In Egypt, fragments of pottery and limestone chips have been…
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Pot decorated with a boat
The pink colour of the fabric of this vessel is typical of t…
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Pottery bowl containing dom palm fruits
The fruit of the dom palm was among the commonest foods enjo…
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Pottery jug in human form
The pale colour of this anthropomorphic (that is, in human f…
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Gebelein Man
This man died more than five thousand years ago. The reconst…
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Quartzite block statue of Senmut
Senmut is shown squatting with his robe wrapped around his k…
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Red granite block of Khufu (Cheops)
This block, and another bearing the name of Khafre, one of K…
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Red granite statue of Sobekemzaf I
This impressive sculpture is a very rare example of a royal …
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Relief from the mastaba of Werirenptah
In the early years of the twentieth century, museums in Euro…
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Relief showing two royal figures
In addition to the human figures at the right of this object…
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Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
It is not a theoretical treatise, but a list of practical pr…
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Sandstone statue of Paser
This statue was discovered by Giovanni Belzoni in the area o…
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Sandstone stela showing Ptolemy II offering to the Buchis bull
The Buchis bull was one of several sacred bulls, the most fa…
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Scene from a satirical papyrus
This scene comes from a document dating to the Twentieth Dyn…
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Shabti coffin and lid of the royal fanbearer Amenmose
From their earliest examples in the Middle Kingdom (about 20…
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Shabti of Qeniherkhepeshef
Shabti figures of the New Kingdom (about 1550-1070 BC) were …
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Shallow, pale green-blue, circular glass dish
Although glass and glazed stone beads appeared sporadically …
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Shrine stela of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye
The reign of King Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) (1352-1336 BC) br…
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Skull of Meryrahashtef
Many diseases and injuries leave distinctive evidence on the…
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Statue of Isis protecting Osiris
This statue was dedicated by Sheshonq, a steward of the god'…
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Stela fragment of Horiraa
The surviving hieroglyphic inscription on this funerary stel…
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Stela of Neswy
Numerous wooden stelae made in the Ptolemaic period have bee…
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Stela of the chief craftsman Qeh
Several gods and goddesses were imported from Syria-Palestin…
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String of beads with amulets in gold and semi-precious stones
The amulets strung together here were probably originally fr…
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Terracotta bottle in the shape of a female lute player
The form of this bottle is often compared to the female musi…
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Textile showing Artemis and Actaeon
During the Coptic period textiles for clothing, wall hanging…
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Textile with Erotes figures in a boat
The design on this textile, perhaps a wall hanging or rug, i…
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The Abbott Papyrus
A scandal erupted in Thebes in about year sixteen of the rei…
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The Battlefield Palette
Mudstone palettes are distinctive objects from the Predynast…
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The 'crossword' stela of Paser
The frieze at the top of this limestone stela shows a line o…
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The Dream Book
The meaning of dreams is a subject that fascinated the ancie…
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The Great Harris Papyrus
At forty-two metres, this is one of the longest papyri still…
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The Shabako Stone
During the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Dynasties (about 74…
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The shrine stela of Ineny
This shrine is presumably from Ineny's tomb. It combines ele…
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Turtle-headed protective wooden figure
Strange creatures were thought to inhabit the dark and unsee…
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Unwrapped mummy of a woman
This mummy was originally identified as Ankhpakhered, son of…
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Upper part of a limestone statue of Queen Ahmose-Merytamun
Giovanni Belzoni discovered this piece of a rare early Eight…
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Vignette from the Book of the Dead of Nesitanebtashru
This vignette is part of the Greenfield papyrus , the Book …
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Wig of human hair
This wig is made of human hair, and is supposed to have come…
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Winnowing fan
Wall scenes from tombs in ancient Egypt show the four stages…
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Wooden adze with bronze blade
Copper tools were first used in the Early Dynastic period, f…
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Wooden bed frame with bull's legs
Wooden beds are first recorded in the First Dynasty but thei…
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Wooden coffin with the remains of a skeleton
In Predynastic Egyptian burials (that is before about 3100 B…
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Wooden cosmetic pot of Ahmose of Peniati
The owner of this object, Ahmose of Peniati, served as overs…
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