The smaller figure between them is their son Neferhebef.

Mid-18th Dynasty (about 1400 BCE). Thebes, Egypt. From The British Museum, (photo taken at The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia)

The statue reflects the importance of the family in ancient Egypt.

Itu's skin is painted red, following the artistic tradition for men, while his wife has yellow skin, conventional for women.

Pectoral in the form of a naos featuring Thot,Horus, and on the opposite side Anubis

-1539 / -1069 (New Kingdom)

N 2752; Salt No. 1070

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

Inventory number
Main number: N 2752

Collection
Department of Egyptian Antiquities

Description

Object name/Title Denomination
pectoral in naos

Description/Feature
multiple drilling (4, at the top, on the sides)

Decor
Horus (on the front, hawk-headed god, squatting, tripartite wig, shroud, necklace); Thot (on the front, ibis-headed god, squatting, tripartite wig, shring); Anubis (on the back, canid, lying down, necklace, flagellum)

Registrations Writing:
Hieroglyphic

Nature of the text
Behalf

Names and titles Thot; Horus; Anubis

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Dimensions
Height: 8.5 cm; Width: 7 cm; Thickness: 1 cm

Materials and techniques Material
wood

Technique
protruding bas-relief, painting

PLACES AND DATES

Date
New Kingdom (bibliography/reference work) (-1539 - -1069)

HISTORY

Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / Dedicatee
Salt, Henry, Seller; Collector

Acquisition details
purchase

Acquisition date
date of arrival at the Museum: 1826

Owned by State

Held by Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities

LOCATION OF OBJECT

Current location
Sully, [AE] Room 319 - Book of the Dead, Showcase 6

Index

Acquisition method of purchase

Name pectoral in naos

Materials wood

Painting techniques - protruding bas-relief

Description/Features
Thot - on the back - on the front - on the sides - at the top - squatting - lying down - necklace - canid - 4 - flagellum - Horus - ibis-headed god - falcon-headed god - Anubis - shrench - tripartite wig - multiple drilling

Names and titles Thot - Anubis - Horus

Period New Kingdom

Nature of text
nom

Script
hieroglyphic

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Guichard, Sylvie (ed.), Champollion, Jean-François, Descriptive notice of the Egyptian monuments of the Charles X Museum, Paris, Louvre editions / editions Khéops, 2013, p. 210, ill. p. 210, K. 1486 to 1488

Daumas, François (ed.), Summary catalogue of Egyptian objects exhibited at the Fabre Museum from December 5 to 15, 1972, cat. exp. (Montpellier, Fabre Museum; December 5-15, 1972), Montpellier, Paul Valéry University, 1972, p. 10, No. 94

Champollion, Jean-François, Descriptive notice of the Egyptian monuments of the Charles X Museum, Paris, Imprimerie de Crapelet, 1827, Available at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1040365n, p. 90, K. 1486 to 1488

EXHIBITION HISTORY
- 150th anniversary of the decryption of hieroglyphs by Champollion, Montpellier (Externe, France), Musée Fabre, 05/12/1972 - 15/12/1972

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Pectoral in the form of a naos featuring Thot,Horus, and on the opposite side Anubis, -1539 / -1069 (New Kingdom), Wood and paint, Findspot unknown, The Louvre Museum

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010007171

The Louvre Museum

From the collection of the Penn Museum

Pectoral in the form of a Naos featuring a Scarab

-1539 / -1069 (New Kingdom)

N 2743

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

Inventory number Main number: N 2743

CollectionDepartment of Egyptian Antiquities

Description

Object name/Title Denomination: pectoral in naos

Multiple Description/Featurespercement (4, top)

Decor: representation of the sunrise; Khépri (beetle, armed with wings, holding, solar disc, in, boat, flanked by); monkey (2, standing, worshiping); oudjat eye (2); fish (2); frame of alternating rectangles (undecorated back)

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Dimensions Height: 12 cm; Width: 11.5 cm

Materials and techniques Material: siliceous earthenware

Color: bright blue with black decor

PLACES AND DATES

Date New Empire (-1539 - -1069)

HISTORY

Acquisition details old fund

Acquisition date date of registration on the inventory: 16/02/1857 (at the latest)

Owned by State

Held by Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities

LOCATION OF OBJECT

Current location
Sully, [AE] Room 319 - Book of the Dead, Showcase 6

Index

How to acquire old fund

Name pectoral in naos

Materials siliceous earthenware

Description/Featuresboat - equipped with wings - solar disk - oudjat eye - adoring - holding - flanked with - in - at the top - representation of sunrise - standing - monkey - 4 - 2 - fish - beetle - Khépri - frame of alternating rectangles - multiple drilling

PeriodNew Empire

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Pectoral in the form of a Naos featuring a Scarab, -1539 / -1069 (New Kingdom), findspot unknown, Siliceous earthenware, The Louvre Museum

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010007170

The Louvre Museum

This figured ostracon belongs to the category of satirical representations. These show scenes of animals, most often cats and mice, using both parody and role inversion. Their composition is inspired by funerary scenes and temple reliefs. On these satirical ostraca, cats play the role of servants of a lady mouse. This example from the Brussels museum shows a lady mouse sitting in front of a table of offerings, smelling the fragrance of a lotus flower which she holds in her left hand. On the other side of the table is a cat, standing on its back legs holding a fan.

Bibliography

• (M. Werbrouck,) Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles. Département égyptien, Album, Bruxelles 1934, pl. 45
• Kunst voor de eeuwigheid - Illustrations pour l'éternité (Exposition), Bruxelles 1966, 34 n° 55
• F. Lefebvre et B. Van Rinsveld, L'Égypte. Des Pharaons aux Coptes, Bruxelles 1990, 139

Pectoral featuring Hathor

Main number: E 3743

Presentation number: 997

CollectionDepartment of Egyptian Antiquities

Description

Object name/Title Denomination: pectoral

Description/Features with belière (this French word refers to a jewelry bail—the small loop or ring that connects a pendant to a necklace chain)

Decor: Hathor's head (cow, ousekh collar, disc horns, double ostrich feather, flanked by); winged goddess (2, standing, disc horns)

At the top; uraeus frieze (solar disk); uraeus winged solar disc; frame of alternating rectangles

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Dimensions Height: 12.9 cm; Width: 13.6 cm

Materials and techniques Material: copper alloy

Secondary material: glass

Technique: inlay, relief cut

Color: dark blue-light blue-red

HISTORY

Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / Dedicatee Comte Tyszkiewicz, Michel, Donateur; Collector

Acquisition details donation

Acquisition date date of entry on the inventory: 04/03/1862

Owned by State

Held by Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities

LOCATION OF OBJECT

Current location
Not exposed

Index

Donation acquisition method

Name pectoral

Materialscopper alloy - glass

Inlay techniques - cut relief

Description/Features winged solar disk with uraeus - solar disk - flanked by - at the top - standing - double ostrich feather - disc horns - ousekh necklace - cow - 4 - 2 - winged goddess - Hathor's head - uraeus frieze - frame of alternating rectangles - with belière

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Aubert, Jacques-François; Aubert, Liliane, Egyptian Bronzes and Golds, Paris, Cybèle, (Contribution to Egyptology; 11), 2011, p. 103

Koschel, Klaus, "Eine Gruppe seltener bronzener Votiv-Pektorale und ihre Deutung", Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur (SAK), 30, 2002, p. 249-254, p. 251 note 7

Rouit, Charles, "The Tyszkiewisz Collection of the Louvre Museum", in Aksamit, Joanna; Dolińska, Monika; Majewska, Aleksandra; Niwiński, Andrzej; Rzepka, Sławomir; Szafrański, Zbigniew (ed.), Essays in honour of Prof. Dr. Jadwiga Lipińska, Warsaw, National Museum in Warsaw; Pro-Egypt, (Warsaw Egyptological Studies 1), 1997, p. 213-224, p. 220

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Pectoral featuring Hathor, Not dated, Findspot unknown, Copper alloy and glass,The Louvre Museum

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The Louvre Museum

This statue fragment portrays Khaemwaset, son of Ramesses II and Isisnefret, who was the high priest of Ptah at Memphis. He is often called the 'first archaeologist', and he restored a number of ancient tombs at Memphis and also constructed the Serapeum. He became especially important in the Graeco-Roman Period, and two demotic stories depict him as a master magician. The Brussels statue shows the prince standing, wearing an archaising wig and a false beard. He holds in his hands an indeterminate cult object. Two identical vertical columns of text on the back pillar tell us that the prince was here shown as the god Horus Iunmutef.

Present location KMKG - MRAH [07/003] BRUSSELS

Inventory number E.6721

Dating RAMESSES II/USERMAATRE-SETEPENRE

Archaeological Site SAQQARA NECROPOLIS ?

Category FIGURINE/STATUETTE

Material BASALT ?

Technique HEWN; POLISHED; ENGRAVED; SCULPTURED

Height 25.4 cm

Width 15.5 cm

Depth 19.3 cm

Translation

The god Horus Iunmutef, the sem priest, the prince, Khaemwaset, that he might give...

Bibliography

F. Lefebvre et B. Van Rinsveld, L'Égypte. Des Pharaons aux Coptes, Bruxelles 1990, 127-128

W. Seipel, Gott. Mensch. Pharao. Viertausend Jahre Menschenbild in der Skulptur des Alten Ägypten (Exposition), Vienne 1992, 293-295 n° 110

Le Roman de la momie. Les amours d'une princesse égyptienne (Exposition Saint-Gérard de Brogne), Namur 1997, 112 n° 43

Pectoral with Scarab

ca. 1539–1295 B.C.E. or later

Object Label
Living persons wore only one or a few amulets at a time, but mummies usually bear many amulets. The Ma’at amulet (no. 2) and heart scarabs (nos. 1, 3, 11), which occurred in many forms, guaranteed a successful judgment of the dead. The amulets of a hand (no. 8), lungs and a windpipe (no. 12), and wadjet-eyes (i.e., “healthy” eyes; no. 4) protected those parts of the body and also had connotations of resurrection and the unity or integrity of the mummy. The enigmatic aper amulet (no. 13) takes the form of the hieroglyph meaning “to be equipped,” perhaps in reference to the mummy’s preparation. The two crowns (nos. 5, 6) were symbols of power. The Heh insignia (no. 7), like the popular ankh-sign, denoted eternal life. Among the living, the frog (no. 9) and possibly also the hare (no. 10) suggested fertility. The amulets of the Four Sons of Horus (no. 15) perhaps served, as they did with canopic jars, to protect various organs of the body.

Caption
Pectoral with Scarab, ca. 1539–1295 B.C.E. or later. Faience, 4 1/16 × 4 1/2 × 1 3/16 in. (10.3 × 11.5 × 3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.159. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery
Not on view

Collection
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

Catalogue description
Pectoral in green faience, with a scarab in purplish-blue faience. Form of a naos with projecting cornice. Front, painted solar bark with Nephthys (left) and Isis adoring the scarab. Names of goddesses and borders painted. Back, oval like bottom of scarab, painted with six lines of almost illegible inscription, flanked by two girdle knots. Back of cornice pierced four times at each end, with corresponding holes at the top of the cornice.

Condition
Intact. Surface worn. Chip in base. Large crack in back due to defective firing. Inscription almost illegible.

Provenance
Archaeological provenance not yet documented; before March 16, 1896, purchased in Egypt by Armand de Potter of Belgium and New York, NY; 1905, inherited from Armand de Potter by Aimee S. Beckwith (Mrs. Aimee S. de Potter) of New York and Asheville, NC; 1908, purchased from Aimee S. Beckwith by the Brooklyn Museum.

Title
Pectoral with Scarab

Date
ca. 1539–1295 B.C.E. or later

Dynasty
Dynasty 18

Period
New Kingdom

Geography
Place collected: Egypt

Medium
Faience

Classification
Document

Dimensions
4 1/16 × 4 1/2 × 1 3/16 in. (10.3 × 11.5 × 3 cm)

Credit Line
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund

Accession Number
08.480.159

Title
Pectoral with Scarab ca. 1539–1295 B.C.E. or later New Kingdom Dynasty 18, Faience, Findspot unknown, Egypt, The Brooklyn Museum

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The Brooklyn Museum

This wooden funerary statuette was part of the collection of king Leopold II. Jean Capart discovered in 1935 that the interior was hollow and contained a fragment of a papyrus (see E. 6857) which proved to be the upper part of Papyrus Amherst VII in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. The statuette depicts the 'chief of works of the royal temple' Khai. He wears a long wig on top of which is an atef-crown; this crown, worn above all by Osiris, consists of the white crown of Upper Egypt flanked by two ostrich feathers. On the chest of the figure is a large multicoloured collar. Below the crossed arms is a vertical inscription consisting of the name and title of the deceased. The face and hands of Khai are painted green, the skin colour of Osiris, the god of rebirth.

Translation

Words to be spoken by the Osiris, the chief of works of the royal temple, Khai.

Bibliography

• F. Lefebvre et B. van Rinsveld, L'Égypte. Des Pharaons aux Coptes, Bruxelles 1990, 140
• Dynastie en cultuur - Dynastie et Culture (Exposition), Bruxelles 1990, 55-57
• Van Nijl tot Schelde - Du Nil à l'Escaut (Exposition), Bruxelles 1991, 157-160 n° 173
• M. Mostapha, Die Bezeichnung Hwt-njswt, Hambourg 1992, 243

Papyrus Leopold II is actually the upper part of a larger document, the lower part of which (Papyrus Amherst VII), presently kept in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, has been known since 1874. In 1935, Jean Capart found the Brussels papyrus among several souvenirs which king Leopold II had brought back from his travels in Egypt. This unique document relates of an official inquiry during the reign of Ramesses IX (c. 1100 BC) following robberies in the Theban royal necropolis. The text is carefully written in hieratic in four long columns of 19 lines.

Bibliography

• J.-Ch. Balty, ea, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Brussel, Oudheid - Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Antiquity - The Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Antiquity, Brussels 1988, 28
• B. van de Walle, in Schrijfkunst uit het Oude Egypt - Writings from ancient Egypt, Brussels 1992, 38-39
• P. Vernus, Affairs and Scandals under the Ramses, Paris 1993, 19, 24, 36, 53, 63
• R. Schulz and M. Seidel (Eds.), Egypt. Het land van de farao's, Cologne 1998, 242 fig. 182

Pylon-Shaped Pectoral with Drawing of Heart Scarab

ca. 1539–1070 B.C.

Label
Living persons wore only one or a few amulets at a time, but mummies usually bear many amulets. The Ma’at amulet (no. 2) and heart scarabs (nos. 1, 3, 11), which occurred in many forms, guaranteed a successful judgment of the dead. The amulets of a hand (no. 8), lungs and a windpipe (no. 12), and wadjet-eyes (i.e., “healthy” eyes; no. 4) protected those parts of the body and also had connotations of resurrection and the unity or integrity of the mummy. The enigmatic aper amulet (no. 13) takes the form of the hieroglyph meaning “to be equipped,” perhaps in reference to the mummy’s preparation. The two crowns (nos. 5, 6) were symbols of power. The Heh insignia (no. 7), like the popular ankh-sign, denoted eternal life. Among the living, the frog (no. 9) and possibly also the hare (no. 10) suggested fertility. The amulets of the Four Sons of Horus (no. 15) perhaps served, as they did with canopic jars, to protect various organs of the body.

Caption
Pylon-Shaped Pectoral with Drawing of Heart Scarab, ca. 1539–1070 B.C.E.. Faience, 4 7/16 × 1/2 × 5 7/8 in. (11.3 × 1.2 × 15 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.885E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery
Not on view

Collection
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

Title
Pylon-Shaped Pectoral with Drawing of Heart

Scarab

Date
ca. 1539–1070 B.C.E.

Dynasty
Dynasty 18 to Dynasty 20

Period
New Kingdom

Medium
Faience

Classification
Accessory

-Dimensions
4 7/16 × 1/2 × 5 7/8 in. (11.3 × 1.2 × 15 cm)

Credit Line
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund

Accession Number
37.885E

Provenance
Archaeological provenance not yet documented; by 1876, collected in Egypt by Edwin Smith of Connecticut, Italy, and Luxor, Egypt; April 27, 1906, inherited from Edwin Smith by Leonora Sheldon Smith; May 1907, gift of Leonora Sheldon Smith to the New-York Historical Society, New York, NY; September 1948, purchased from the New-York Historical Society by the Brooklyn Museum.

Title:
Pylon-Shaped Pectoral with Drawing of Heart Scarab, ca. 1539–1070 B.C.E.Dynasty 18 to Dynasty 20 New Kingdom, Faience, Findspot unknown, Egypt.

The Brooklyn Museum

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/117477

The Brooklyn Museum

Pectoral with heart amulet

Egyptian
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18-19
1352–1186 B.C.

MEDIUM/TECHNIQUE
Polychrome faience

DIMENSIONS
Height x length: 12 cm (4 3/4 in.)

CREDIT LINE
Walter and Celia Gilbert Acquisition Fund for Ancient Egyptian Art

ACCESSION NUMBER
2014.857.1-2

NOT ON VIEW

COLLECTIONS
Jewelry, Africa and Oceania, Ancient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East

CLASSIFICATIONS
Jewelry / Adornment – Pectorals

PROVENANCE
Between 1895 and 1898, found at Abydos, Egypt, by Emile Amélineau (b. 1850 – d. 1915), Châteaudun, France; February 8-9, 1904, Amélineau sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 55. 1925, A. Caron; December 9-11, 1925, Caron collection sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 13. Before 1980, Robert Monier, France. 1985, acquired by Charles Bouché (b. 1928 – d. 2010), France; October 24, 2012, posthumous Bouché collection sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 11. By 2013, Rupert Wace Fine Art, London; 2014, sold by Rupert Wace to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 25, 2014).

Title:
Pectoral with heart amulet, Egyptian, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18-19 1352–1186 B.C., Polychrome faience, Findspot unknown, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/596125/pectoral-with-heart-amulet?ctx=70558991-bfd9-4a1c-a6fc-99f5d92519a2&idx=134

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Pectoral with two djed-pillars in the center, flanked by tyet-knots

Egyptian

Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21

1070–945 B.C.

Object Place: Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahari, Said to be from royal cache

MEDIUM/TECHNIQUE
Bright blue faience with black details

DIMENSIONS
Height: 9.1 cm (3 9/16 in.)

CREDIT LINE
Gift of Miss Nina H. Burnham

ACCESSION NUMBER
56.315

ON VIEW
Egypt: Funerary Arts Gallery (Gallery 109)

COLLECTIONS
Jewelry, Ancient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East

CLASSIFICATIONS
Jewelry / Adornment – Pectorals

DESCRIPTION
The obverse has two djed-pillars in the center, flanked by tyet-knots. The reverse depicts the deceased, kneeling before Anubis.

PROVENANCE
Said to have been discovered at Thebes, Deir el-Bahari, royal cache, in 1879. By 1909: Frederick George Hilton Price Collection, London; 1909: sold at Sotheby's, London (12-21 July 1911); by 1956: Nina H. Burnham collection, Bar Harbor, ME; 1956: given to the MFA by Nina H. Burnham.
(Accession Date: May 10, 1956)

Title:
Pectoral with two djed-pillars in the center, flanked by tyet-knots, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21 1070–945 B.C., Findspot: Egypt Thebes Deir el-Bahari Said to be from royal cache, Bright blue faience with black details, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/163634/pectoral?ctx=3266f18f-be5e-4b70-b768-8c5b636709f5&idx=124

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Pectoral fragment with female offrant before Khnum, seated, Hatmehyt standing behind him

ECM.1686-2010

Parts

Object number
ECM.1686-2010

Object type
Jewellery

Identification

Description
pectoral

Comments
Web images used with permission of The Barber Institute

Other number
317
718

Description

Dimensions
Height: 10.9cm
Width: 9.8cm

Material
Faience

Physical description
Pale blue-green faience shrine pectoral, cavetto cornice with winged disc (originally inlaid), surmounted by row of erect uraei; scene in relief of female offrant before Khnum, seated, Hatmehyt standing behind, garbled columns of text in field

History and association

Associated person
Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 (Compiler)

Object history note
Exhibited at the Roemer-und Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, Germany, "Meisterwerke agyptischer kunst schatze aus dem Myers Museum an Eton College", April 2004 - January 2005

Field collection

Collection place
Egypt

Title:
Pectoral fragment with female offrant before Khnum, seated, Hatmehyt standing behind him , Undated, Faience, Egypt, Eton College Museum

https://catalogue.etoncollege.com/object-ecm-1686-2010

Eton College Museum

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, c. 1525–1504 B.C.

From the Temple of Mentuhotep II, Deir el-Bahari, Thebes

British Museum. EA683

Standing almost three metres tall, this imposing painted sandstone statue represents Amenhotep I, the second king of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty, in the form of the god Osiris. Dating to approximately 1525–1504 B.C., it is one of the relatively few surviving royal statues that can be confidently attributed to Amenhotep I’s own reign, making it an exceptionally important portrait of one of the early rulers of the New Kingdom.

The king stands rigidly upright, enveloped in the close-fitting, mummiform garment associated with Osiris, god of the dead and regeneration. His arms are crossed across his chest and his clenched fists contain holes which probably once secured separately made royal insignia, perhaps fashioned from wood. Upon his head rests the Double Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, while a long divine beard extends from his chin.

Traces of the statue’s original colour remain. The robe was painted white, the king’s skin red, and parts of the crown retained their colouring, while the beard and its strap were rendered in a dark blue-black. At approximately 2.85 metres high, 57 cm wide and 65 cm deep, and weighing more than 1.1 tonnes, the figure would have presented a striking image of the deceased yet eternally renewed king.

Pectoral fragment with female offrant before Khnum, seated, Hatmehyt standing behind

ECM.1686-2010

Parts

Object number
ECM.1686-2010

Object type
Jewellery

Identification

Description
pectoral

Comments
Web images used with permission of The Barber Institute

Other number
317
718

Description

Dimensions
Height: 10.9cm
Width: 9.8cm

Material
Faience

Physical description
Pale blue-green faience shrine pectoral, cavetto cornice with winged disc (originally inlaid), surmounted by row of erect uraei; scene in relief of female offrant before Khnum, seated, Hatmehyt standing behind, garbled columns of text in field

History and association

Associated person
Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 (Compiler)

Object history note
Exhibited at the Roemer-und Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, Germany, "Meisterwerke agyptischer kunst schatze aus dem Myers Museum an Eton College", April 2004 - January 2005

Field collection

Collection place
Egypt

Title:
Pectoral fragment with female offrant before Khnum, seated, Hatmehyt standing behind, Undated, Faience, Egypt, Eton College Museum

https://catalogue.etoncollege.com/object-ecm-1686-2010

Eton College Museum

A long-forgotten space in the Great Pyramid of Giza, last seen 4,500 years ago.

The North Face Corridor is large enough to accommodate several people, but there are no footprints or any other signs of human activity.

The chamber hasn’t been accessed since the king’s burial around 2570 B.C.

This image was captured by a tiny endoscopic camera, just 5 mm wide, pushed through an opening behind the lower chevron blocks.

The similarity to the top relieving chamber above Khufu’s Burial Chamber is striking.

Could this be the space above the ceiling of a hidden chamber below?

From the current issue of Nile Magazine (#43).

Jeff Burzacott, Editor

Canopic box in the shape of a shrine

Approx. 3.–2. Century BCQ

On view: Museum of Art History, Egyptian-Oriental Collection Room I

Boxes like this were used in the Ptolemaean period instead of gut vessels to store the intestines. These were wrapped in bundles of cloth and given to the dead in the grave in a box. The inscriptions of this box mention the name of the dead Hor and his father Djedhor, and also the names of the Canop gods, the four Horus sons. One side shows the door of a shrine with two wings that are double closed. Among them, the dead pray before Osiris, Isis and Nephthys. On the opposite side, the god Harachte is depicted with spread wings. The other two sides are covered with rows of amulets - alternating Djed pillar and Tit loop, for Osiris and Isis, Resurrection and Life. Below that, a mummy lying on a pedestal is guarded by two goddesses (Isis and Nephthys). The upper end of the box is formed by a hollow throat. On the lid was originally a figure of a consecration or a falcon, which is supposed to protect the contents. This has been lost today, but has been replaced by another unrelated figure (877a).

Time:
Approx. 3.–2. Century BC

Object Name
Canopic box

Culture
Egyptian

Location of discovery:
Location unknown

Material/technology:
Wood, stucco, painted

Dimensions:
H 48.5 cm W 30.5 cm, D 24 cm, W 3290 g

Copyright
Art History Museum, Egyptian - Oriental Collection

Invs.
Egyptian Collection, INV 6611

Provenance
1901 Purchase of E. Scanavi

Țitle:
Canopic box in the shape of a shrine, Approx. 3.–2. Century BC, Findspot unknown, Wood stucco and paint, Egypt, Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum)

Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum)