BM: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Art (Bot)

Yellow limestone statuette of a seated man. He wears a long cloak drawn tightly around body and grasped with right hand. Left hand extended flat on breast, palm down. Pleated wig. Simple block throne with plinth extending up to base of wig. Inscription on plinth, sides of throne and base. Name lost. Inscriptions: inscriptions on throne seem to be conventional offering formula texts. Inscription on plinth not entirely clear. “An offering which the king gives and Geb for” are the following words titles of the deceased? Condition: Broken at hips and assembled. Major portion of sides and back of throne missing. Portion of left foot missing. Area around left knee missing. Remains of paint, entire cloak originally painted pinkish-red. Wig and eyes painted black.

Statuette of a Cloaked Figure https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3457

Cylinder Seal

Cylinder Seal https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/104135

One of Fifteen Circular Stones

One of Fifteen Circular Stones https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/67956

Pottery funerary cone. The cone is inscribed for a man Ny-ta. For a translation of the inscription see 37.1845E. The clay is brick red on the surface. Condition: Tip broken; buff slip (?) only partially preserved; white incrustation on pointed end.

Funerary Cone https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/118378

Shabti of Setau

Shabti of Setau https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3493

Turtle

Turtle https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/8637

Pale green faience mummiform ushabti of Padineith. He wears a non-striated tripartite wig. His hands are crossed and juxtaposed on his chest, the right holding a mattock and the left a pick. There is an incised bag behind left shoulder. There are eight lines of inscription on the front of the figure which continue with a single column of text on the back pillar. Condition: The condition of the piece is good. The glaze is for the most part faded. The figure is wholly intact.

Shabty of the Chief Steward Pedi-neit https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3987

Faience figurine of a dancing-girl. Turquoise blue glaze with details (hair, eyes, and eyebrows, ornaments) in purplish black. The figure is rather well-modeled, with slender waist and swelling thighs. The upper arms are free from the body, but hands and lower arms lie close to the thighs. The legs end (as is frequent in servant-figurines of the period) in rounded stumps at the knees. The girl wears a “Hathor” wig with spiral curls in front and straight, squared lock in back, and is nude save for a girdle of cowrie-shells and beads and bead necklaces, indicated by black markings. Black dots arranged in lozenges on legs probably indicate tattooing. The pubic triangle is emphasized by black dots. Condition: Broken through the middle and repaired. Black spots worn in places. Brownish traces of (?) clay mould. Otherwise perfect.

Fertility Figurine https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3481

Small Scarab

Small Scarab https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/56769

Band Fragment with Figural, Animal, and Floral Decoration

Band Fragment with Figural, Animal, and Floral Decoration https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/48855

Fragment of limestone relief retaining portion of single column of inscription. Only three hieroglyphs preserved, of outstanding quality. Condition: Edges chipped.

Fragment of a Column of Hieroglyphics https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/124492

Cylindrical Vase

Cylindrical Vase https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/21138

Alabaster ear stud. In shape it is similar to a papyrus column with widely flaring umbel. Condition: Small chips and some incrustation; otherwise good.

Ear Stud https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/118014

Demotic Ostracon

Demotic Ostracon https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/179299

Small Scarab

Small Scarab https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/56809

Painted terracotta figure of seated female; highly stylized head with pinched nose, elongated, pointed top (so-called polos type), eyes indicated by two large black masses; thick neck resting on broad shoulders extending as tubular arms which bend inward and support two huge breasts; black dots covering upper torso, breasts painted brown; very thick abdomen covered with tan and black spots; legs shown as extremely thick thighs tapering quickly to pointed feet, legs decorated with thickly applied black bands, some with masses of tan paint in between; back of statuette with single line of red paint running up spine and terminating in two oblique lines at shoulder blades creating form resembling an arrow, mass of dark paint at base of figure's rear.

Female Figurine https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/124145

Chapter 15 of the Book of the Dead, The Hymn to Ra. Vignette, in black ink, from a Book of the Dead, showing as official named Djed-khonsu-inf-ankh, son of Nesamun, son of Hor; he stands to the right, worshipping the falcon-headed god Ra-harakhte who is seated left.

Book of the Dead of Djedkhonsuiuefankh https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/118302

Cylinder Bead of Senwosret I

Cylinder Bead of Senwosret I https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3468

Ushabti of the Priest of Nefertem

Ushabti of the Priest of Nefertem https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/19082

Fragment with Geometric Decoration

Fragment with Geometric Decoration https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/9180

Chalice

Chalice https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/148037

Stamp Seal: Scorpion with Star

Stamp Seal: Scorpion with Star https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/101598

Pataikos Amulet

Pataikos Amulet https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/17404

Storage Pot

Storage Pot https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/21071

Pale blue-glazed faience figure of a lioness-headed goddess. She is seated upon a throne the sides of which are decorated with an overlapping scale-like feather pattern. Her right hand is upon her knees; her left hand holds a lotus to her chest. She is crowned with solar disk and uraeus. Condition: Left side of figure broken away. Rear bears kiln rock marks. Chip in rear of sun disk.

Figure of Sekhmet Seated https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/117526

Protective God as Dancer and Musician

Protective God as Dancer and Musician https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/9677

White and yellow glass. The "rim" of the heart is red.

Heart Amulet https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4151

Bottle of Plain Blown Glass

Bottle of Plain Blown Glass https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/13844

Glass inlay representing, in relief (rear surface flat), a high-prowed boat afloat on the water. The prows, which may be in the form of papyrus bundles, are opaque yellow. The remainder of the piece is opaque white with a border of translucent deep blue glass. Condition: Small scratches, some incrustation.

Inlay in the Form of a Boat on Water https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/117708

Standing mummiform figure of the God Osiris. Wood covered with gold leaf and having some bronze accessories. The god wore the white crown flanked by feathers; the arms are indicated through the mummy wrapping and the hands exposed, knuckles meeting and each originally holding an attribute. The figure is provided with a collar which meets behind, consists of two rows of vertically radiating beads, the lower ones are drop pendants. It is not apparent whether the vertical strips behind are a part of the collar or belong to the crown. They appear to hang from the crown. Technic: The entire figure with white crown and a dowel on the under surface of the feet were carved out of a single block of wood. It is inserted in a small rectangular base with paneled sides which is of another single piece of wood. Near the four corners round holes were drilled from the bottom, reaching to within about 6 mm of the upper surface. Two of these holes were drilled too close to the sides and have broken through the panels. In the two front holes two of the round pegs remain which served to fasten the small base to its pedestal. The whole block was cut through to the bottom to receive the dowel in the feet of the figure and this shows below. The accessories separately added include 1) bronze uraeus on the front of the crown; 2) the feathers of the crown for which two dowel holes are visible on backside of each crown, 3) the eyes probably of glass or paste, 4) the beard and its straps (material not evident), 5) the attributes in the hands. The latter are closed and round holes are drilled for the reception of the fly-flap and scepter. The entire figure in each case received a layer of stucco on which gold leaf was laid. The details of the collar and ends behind modeled. The details of the collar were not carved in the wood but modeled in the plaster before the god leaf was applied. Condition: The surface is considerably darkened (by resin?) thus the material of the eyes, and other accessories is difficult to determine. Some gold leaf and stucco has dropped off. The figure has lost feathers from the headdress, the beard and part of the inlay representing beard straps, both attributes, and its pedestal. This objecy has a worm-hole in the exposed wood of the right shoulder and the nose of is hopelessly flattened.The uraeus of 342 proves to be delicately engraved. The beard-straps were not metal but paste. The right eye looks like ivory to which the pupil was added in black paste (to a flattened, perhaps somewhat roughened surface); the left eye, however, is of glass. The cornea is whiter and the pupil blacker. Presumably the original left eye was lost that this is a repair.

Figure of Osiris https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/117926