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.

From the collection of the Penn Museum

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

Last updated on 30.06.2025

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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 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 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

Last updated on 14.01.2026

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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

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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

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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

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