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Nymphéas, Claude Monet

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Nymphéas, Claude Monet

Statue of Horemheb and Horus

This nearly life-size statue is made of white limestone. Horemheb is seated on the right side of Horus, who places his right arm around the king’s waist. The god’s left hand is holding the sign of life. The two figures greatly resemble each other. Both have bare upper bodies and wear the short ritual kilt and the double crown. The king is also wearing the striped royal headdress and a false beard.

On first inspection, the sculpture appears to be in a perfect state of preservation, but this is deceptive. The statue has been extensively restored in modern times and several parts were added: the two outer arms and the feet of both statues, the left hand, beard, and the tip of the nose of the king, as well as the beak of the falcon.

The appeal of this work lies particularly in the contrast between the traditional rigidity of the overall modelling on the one hand and the face on the other, the style of which has been largely determined by late Amarna art. The realism with which the anatomical details have been represented and the retaining of the portraiture despite the idealizing nature of the piece are a continuation of the art of the pharaoh Akhenaten. All in all, this sculpture seems to bring us closer to the personality of the forceful statesman Horemheb more than any other of his portraits.

New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, reign of Horemheb, ca. 1319-1292 BC. Now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Inv. 8301

Ms. Codex 273 - Liber ethicorum Aristotelis

This manuscript features a compendium of Aristotle’s Ethics (both the Nicomachean and the Eudemian, or Great Ethics) in the translation made by the Italian doctor and scholar Taddeo Alderotti in the 13th century, followed by a list of the electors of the Holy Roman Empire. It was written in Italy, before 1356 CE, in Italian.

Click here for additional information, or here for the facsimile.

Mummy of a Monkey

This sad-looking young baboon is seated with its knees drawn up to its chest, and its tail curving around the right side of its body.

The monkey appears to have been mummified through an enlarged cut in the anal area rather than evisceration through enema; radiographs show that a series of large packets that appear to contain soil were inserted into the animal’s torso to help hold its original shape. Traces of resin, natron, and exterior bandages are still visible on the animal.

Excavated by Mr. Theodore M. Davis in 1906 from Tomb (KV51) nearby the Tomb of Amenhotep II (KV35), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 38747; CG 29837

La actriz mexicana María Félix.

La actriz mexicana Dolores del Río.

Mummy of Queen Henuttawy

The whole body of Queen Henuttawy’s mummy was colored in yellow, while the cheeks and lips were painted red to improve her appearance. The head is adorned with an artificial wig made of strands of black string; she was given stone eyes. Her mummy was found in the Deir el-Bahari cache (“DB320”).

Her embalming wound was covered with a gold plaque that bears the wadjet eye and the queen’s name and titles. Her body exhibits many of the new techniques that developed for mummification in the Third Intermediate Period, notably the subcutaneous packing of linen and sawdust to preserve the shape of the body. In this case, however, the face of the mummy had burst due to being too tightly packed, it was restored to its original form in 1974.

Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 26204; CG 61090

Nun Raises the Sun

Nun, god of the primeval waters, origin of all life and chaos, lifts the barque of the sun god Ra (represented by both the scarab and the sun disk) into the sky at the beginning of time. Nut, goddess of the Sky, is hanging from above, holding the god Osiris, also hanging from upside down, who holds the sun from above. This union, between the sun and Osiris, represents a solid eternal union between the soul and the body which meant to be a complete resurrection of the human being.

Vignette from Book of the Dead of Anhay. Ramesside Period, New Kingdom, 20th Dynasty, ca. 1189-1070 BC. Now in the British Museum.

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Mummy of Thutmose III

The mummy of king Thutmose III was moved from its original burial place in tomb KV34, in the Valley of the Kings, to the Deir el-Bahari cache (“DB320”) in his original middle coffin.

The mummy was badly damaged by tomb-robbers, probably during the 21st Dynasty. When they moved the royal mummies, they had to use narrow wooden splints to hold the body together.

Apparently, the king was about 1.61 meters tall. His hands were crossed over his chest, in the Osirian position. His face was covered with resin.

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479-1425 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 26213

Girdle of Princess Sithathor

This girdle of the Princess Sithathor is made of eight gold, half-open cowry shells. The ones at each end have flat reverses, and were joined by means of grooves to serve as a clasp, fastening the girdle when they slid one into the other. The shells are separated from each other by rhomboidal polychrome beads of carnelian, feldspar, and lapis lazuli.

Gold cowry shells were imitations of the real cowry shells that had been used in belts, bracelets, anklets, and necklaces since the pre-dynastic period. People thought that cowry shells possessed powerful magical properties and increase female fertility.

Princess Sithathor was a daughter of King Senusret II, and was most probably a sister of Senusret III, as she was buried within his pyramid complex at Dahshur. Very fine pieces of jewelry that belonged to her were found in her tomb; they are now preserved in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, reign of Senusret II, ca. 1897-1878 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 30858

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Portrait of Anna Pitt as Hebe, by Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1792 (detail) 

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Necklace of Psusennes I

This necklace is very simple, it consists of two rows of beads, made from lapis lazuli. In the middle, two golden beads can be seen, and the name of the king is found on the clasp. Curiously, one bead also has an Assyrian inscription mentioning the gods of Assur. 

Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, reign of Psusennes I, ca. 1069-945 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 85755

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The Mummy of Queen Hatshepsut

The Mummy of Hatshepsut was found by Howard Carter in KV60, in the Valley of the Kings. While assembling all unidentified mummies with their right arms placed across their chests a royal posture for the Egyptian Mummy Project, some were studied with a CT-scan machine. 

At the same time a canopic box from the Deir el-Bahri cachette that was inscribed for Hatshepsut and contained her liver was also scanned. There was also a tooth inside, a molar with a root; and when examined it was found that it fitted exactly into the mouth of one of the royal women. 

After analysis of Hatshepsut’s mummy, it was concluded that she had died at about the age of fifty, that she had been obese, and that she had diabetes and cancer. The box that contained the tooth is also on display near the mummy.

Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

Pectoral of king Amenemopet

The central feature of this pectoral is a lapis lazuli scarab pushing the sun-disc with its front legs. His rear legs hold the cartouche of Amenemopet. 

To either side, the goddesses Isis and Nephthys protect him. At the bottom of the pectoral an inscription provides the name of the king. The frame of the piece presents a winged sun-disc at the top. 

Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 1069-945 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 86037

Photo: Sandro Vannini

Canopic Jars of Maiherpri

Four canopic jars, from the tomb of Maiherpri (KV36), made of alabaster. 

Used to hold viscera after mummification. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479-1425 BC. Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.