Relieve de una mujer con una flor de loto.

Relieve de una mujer con una flor de loto.

Piedra.

Reino Antiguo.

La flor de loto está asociada al renacimiento y a la nueva vida ya que se cierra al anochecer y se abre al amanecer.

Roemer-und Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim.

Exposición "HIJAS DEL NILO"

Palacio de las Alhajas, Madrid.

 

 

 

Relieve con una imagen de plañideras.

Relieve con una imagen de plañideras.

Piedra caliza.

Reino Nuevo (1570-1070 a C)

Las plañideras eran mujeres a las que se pagaba para que lloraran y mostraran un profundo dolor durante los sepelios.

La presencia de estas mujeres realzaba la posición social de los difuntos.

Allard Pierson, collections of the University, Amsterdam

Exposición "HIJAS DEL NILO"

Palacio de las Alhajas, Madrid.

Relief with an image of paid mourners.

Limestone.

New Kingdom (1570-1070 BC)

Professiomal mourners were women who where paid to grieve and display great sorrow during burals. The presence of such women was a sign of the deceased´s elevated social status.

 

 

 

Merneptah

Merneptah

Exhibit in the antiquity collection of Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. This artwork is now in the public domain 

 

 

 

a pair of leather sandal soles.

 

This is a pair of leather sandal soles. Each sole consists of a single piece of cut leather. There are fine cracks and some areas of discoloration on the reddish-brown leather, but generally it is in a good state of preservation. The sandals appear to have been worn during life because there are signs of wear on the bottoms and there are molded impressions of the heal, toes and the ball of the foot on the upper surface. There is a round hole punched into each sole for the attachment of a thong between the first and second toes. Leather ankle straps secured the back of the sandal. Complete examples in the Museum of Fine Arts have a strap that completely encircles the ankle heel. On the right sole only an indentation on each side marks the location of the sandal strap. On the left sole a small section of the original strap remains on the right edge and this strap was part of the same piece of leather as the sole. On the left edge we have evidence of a repair, which is also an indication of daily life use. Two holes were punched into the edge of the sole and a new strap was fixed into place by leather thongs. Only a short length of this new strap remains in place. There is a rectangular area of discoloration on the upper surface of the left sole near the toe area.

Thorvaldsens Museum

public domain

 

 

Statuette of Senetmut

Statuette of Senetmut

This statuette in basalt was found in a tomb of the necropolis at Abydos. Dated to the Middle Kingdom, it depicts a woman sitting on a cubic seat. The hieroglyphic inscriptions engraved on the lower part of the long dress of the woman and on the flanks and back side of the seat indicate that the person was called Senetmut.

UPPER EGYPT: GOVERNORATE OF SOHAG: ABYDOS

FORMULA Htp-di-nsw.t

J. Garstang, El Arábah, Londres 1901, pl. III

L. Speleers, Recueil des inscriptions égyptiennes des Musées Royaux du Cinquantenaire à Bruxelles, Bruxelles 1923, 33 nº 109

Porter and Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings V 66

J. Vandier, Manuel d'archéologie égyptienne, Paris 1958, III 239 n. 9, 271 n. 5

Inventory number E.4252

KMKG - MRAH

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=642

 

 

 

 

Mastaba of Unas Ankh

Mastaba of Unas Ankh

V dinastia,

originales y reconstrucciones

wiki/public domain

 

 

 

Family Group of Four.

Family Group of Four.

 

 

This statue is carved in very high relief. It depicts two males and two female figures with their hands at their sides. There may be traces of inscriptions on their dresses. The corner of the base is broken off.

Walters Art Museum

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