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

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