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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…

Models of sailing boats were more common in burials of the 11th and 12th Dynasties to aid the deceased’s transportation in the afterlife. This model represents a solar boat with an erroneously placed crew and mast. The original solar boat had a…

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.…

The Egyptian ruler Sety I was buried with over 1000 shabtis of different materials, many of which are found in Egypt and museums around the world. When the king’s tomb (KV 17) was discovered by Giovanni Belzoni in 1817, he found shabtis strewn across…

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 cartonnage head has a gilded face, and a polychrome wig, bust and…

This jug is composed of green, free-blown glass. The body is spherical with a cylindrical neck and a funnel mouth. An applied ring is below the rim and a thick applied festoon rests low on the neck. The ribbon strap handle is pulled up from the jug’s…

Gallery installation photographs from 'And Something Magical Happened': Baseball Photographs by Walter Iooss

Gallery installation photographs from 'And Something Magical Happened': Baseball Photographs by Walter Iooss.