endilletante:

Trésor de l’Egypte par Samivel. Editions Arthaud, 1954.

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ancientpeoples:

Bronze figure of a seated cat

From Saqqara, Egypt
Late Period, after 600 BC

The domesticated cat is probably associated more with ancient Egypt than any other culture in the world. This cat is a particularly fine example of the many statues of cats from ancient Egypt. It has gold rings, a silvered collar round its neck and a silver protective wedjat eye amulet.

The cat is mostly identified with the goddess Bastet, whose cult centre was at Bubastis in the Nile Delta. Bubastis became particularly important when its rulers became the kings of Egypt, forming the Twenty-second Dynasty, sometimes known as the ‘Libyan Dynasty’. The rise of the importance of Bastet and the cat can probably be dated to this period.

As with other creatures sacred to particular deities, it became very popular in the Late Period (661-332 BC) to bury mummies of cats in special cemeteries as a sign of devotion to the goddess. A number of cat cemeteries are known from Egypt. See, for example, a cat mummy dating to the first century AD from Abydos.

This sculpture is now known as the Gayer-Anderson cat, after its donor to The British Museum.

(Source: The British Museum)

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larameeee:

Horus at Edifu…..

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omgthatartifact:

Winged Isis Figure

Egypt, 711 BC- 395 AD

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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omgthatartifact:

Isis-Aphrodite Figure

Egypt, 2nd century AD

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

“Isis-Aphrodite is a form of the great goddess Isis that emphasizes the fertility aspects associated with Aphrodite. She was concerned with marriage and childbirth and, following very ancient pharaonic prototypes, also with rebirth. Elaborate accessories, including an exaggerated calathos (the crown of Egyptian Greco-Roman divinities) emblazoned with a tiny disk and horns of Isis, heighten the effect of her nudity. Figures depicting this goddess are found in both domestic and funerary contexts. Popular already in the 3rd to 2nd centuries B.C., they continued to be made in Roman times. Dating technology places this piece in the Roman period, probably about AD 150, and the long narrow face and rather dry expression do not contradict such a date.”

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hadrian6:

aboutegypt:

Schist sarcophagus lid of the Vizier Sisebek (by Σταύρος)

hadrian6:

toomuchart:

Unknown Artist (Egyptian), Ceiling painting from the palace of Amenhotep III, c. 1390-1353 BCE.

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centuriespast:

Osiris-in-a-Jar

Egypt, mid-1st-2nd century A.D.
Bronze and lead

Indiana University Art Museum

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centuriespast:

Upper Part of Figurine of the Goddess Isis

• Medium: Faience
• Place Made: Egypt
• Dates: 305-30 B.C.E.
• Period: Ptolemaic Period
• The Brooklyn Museum

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