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The deceased is shown wearing a blue tripartite wig with yellow stripes and a false beard. His eyes are inlaid and rimmed. Only three upper rows of the broad collar remain and a portion of drop-shaped beads in red, green, blue and yellow at the…

The falcon-headed coffin and the hieroglyphic text is associated with the funerary deity Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. Inside the coffin is a corn mummy composed of grain and earth wrapped in linen that is covered with resin. The head of the mummy is fitted…

This standing figure represents a lion-headed goddess, most likely Sekhmet, whose name means “The Powerful One.” Her attributes include a sun disk with a uraeus. Together they connect her with the sun god, Re, and emphasize her roles as his daughter,…

A polychromed wooden upper end of a coffin lid. The owner wears the vulture headdress, a circlet, and a blue and yellow striped tripartite wig with lappets ending in a yellow band. Above her forehead is a winged scarab and she wears a broad collar.…

Masks protected the mummified head and presented the transfigured state of the deceased. If the mummified head was lost or damaged, masks ensured the deceased could be whole. This brightly painted cartonnage mummy mask has a gilded face, a tripartite…

This round-topped stela belongs to a man named Smen who was the “standard bearer (of the boat) Menkheperure (Thutmose IV), the destroyer of Syria.” On the top register, Smen gives praise to Osiris-Wennefer, who is seated before an offering table.…

This head depicts the god Amun-Re, wearing the deity’s distinctive crown topped by two tall feathers. A round sun disk rests between the feathers on the modius of the crown. The eyes of the statue are inlaid with white and black stone, which becomes…

This large bronze of the falcon god Horus wears a uraeus and the double-crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. The distinctive eye markings of the falcon are carefully incised as are the individual feathers on the falcon’s back and wings. A portion of the…

Cats, in ancient Egypt, were not just pets but symbols of Bastet, the goddess of fertility and protection. The popularity of Bastet’s cult from the Late Period to the Ptolemaic Period led to the creation of a large number of seated cat statuettes.…

This bronze statuette depicts the mummiform god of the underworld Osiris. The body of the god is wrapped in a close-fitting shroud with his hands poking out of vertical slits. In his right hand he holds a flail, and in his left, a crook. On his head,…