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There have been so many mummified cats found in Egypt that in the 19th Century they were shipped to the UK in their thousands to be ground up & used as fertiliser. There are still a lot of cat mummies that survived, and this is one that is now in the Liverpool World Museum.
It’s a fine looking specimen, with a nicely modelled head and geometric patterns in the w...
The relief in this photo comes from the same site and time as the ram headed sphinx I posted about a couple of weeks ago – Kawa in Sudan during the reign of Taharqo of the 25th Dynasty. And it also depicts the god Amun, this time in a scene of the pharaoh offering to the gods.
The scene is carved on the west wall of a shrine built by Taharqo in a temple at Kawa. The...
This pot is of a type we call Decorated Ware which was made primarily during the Naqada II period of Egyptian history, around 5.5 thousand years ago. The name is self-explanatory & was invented by Petrie as part of his classification of pottery from ancient Egyptian sites.
It has many of the typical motifs of this sort of pot. The central feature in my photograp...
This statue was found at a site called Kawa in modern Sudan (and ancient Kush) roughly halfway between the Egyptian border & Khartoum. It is very clearly Egyptian in style, and the Pharaoh it depicts is Taharqo (the penultimate king of the 25th Dynasty, who were from Kush).
The 25th Dynasty either begin the Late Period or end the Third Intermediate Period, and t...
I like this large fragment of a stela because of how neat and crisp the hieroglyphs are. This was made by someone who knew what they were doing, and took the time to do it well. And the person who commissioned it was therefore a person of status & wealth.
The text itself is autobiographical, but not in the same way that a modern autobiography is structured as a ...
