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Painted wooden procession of a priest and female offering bearers, Dynasty 11.

tomb of Djehuty-Nakht (local governor) at Deir el-Bersheh Reisner and the MFA in 1915.

Wooden 3D statues - phenomenon of middle kingdom. off walls, now 3D. daily life scene. hard to put back together. tomb 10a had largest burial assemblage

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(Neb-hepet-re) Mentuhotep seated statue from the “Bab el-Hosan” (chamber at end of long passageway under the temple found by Carter). Dynasty 11. Unified egypt. black africans, or black land silt that Nile brings in yearly - fertility or importance of nile. birthname changed to mentuhotep. famous found wrapped in linen. bab el hosan - originally a tomb, converted to symbolic cenotaph for osiris. in heb sed costume. red crown is of lower egypt

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Wooden model estate of Meket-re as found by the Metropolitan Museum expedition under Herbert Winlock (review of cattle and livestock by Meket- re and his scribes). meketre was chancellor and high steward during Mentuhotep II and III. Dynasty 11. wooden 3d models of daily life scenes boats etc. Middle Kingdom. More objects in tombs . At Met.

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Granite statue of the noblewoman Sennuwy , wife of Hep-djefa, originally from Asyut in Middle Egypt, but discovered by Reisner and the MFA
Expedition in a Kerma chieftain’s tumulus grave at Kerma, Third Cataract in Nubia. Dynasty 12, reign of Senwosret I. HIgh calibre, woman, big

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Beni Hasan, painting in the rock-cut tomb of Khnumhotep showing Asiatics. Dynasty 12. Shows infiltration of asiatics. Kingdom is consolidated, different clothing, dont look egyptian

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Mortally wounded skull of Seqenenre Tao. Deir ir Bahari. Dynasty 17. Father of Ahmose and Kamose (new kingdom starters) under attack,

found in strange condition limbs not straighetend out. poorly embalmed

earliest mummy in cairo museum. start of war of liberations against hyksos

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Quartzite sarcophagus C of Hatshepsut (her second of three), reinscribed for Thutmose I, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Dynasty 18. She changed for her dad. lengthened. reinscribed with different gender. associate with her dad. Wants dominance over him also. KV 20

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Queen of Punt relief, from Hatshepsut’s temple at Deir el-Bahari, now in the Cairo Museum. Dynasty 18. Realistic depiction of Queeen. fat rolls etc. Evidence of consolidated power throughout kingdom under Hatshepsut. international relations and trade. far to go.

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Thutmose III offering to Amen, from the Hathor chapel of his temple beside that of Hatshepsut at Deir el- Bahari, now in the Cairo Museum. Dynasty 18. Remaining images of Amen: after akhenaten. speaking in different directions hieroglyps

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Quartzite sarcophagus of Thutmose III in the burial chamber of his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, KV34. Dynasty 18. Robbers plundered tomb, threw objects against wall to remove gold gilding . in shape of cartouche. lid taken off. oval room. Very fine craftsmanship. Thutmose III co regent with step mum hatshepsut. 17 military campaigns

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Sphinx (“Dream”) stela of Thutmose IV. Dynasty 18. legitimization. had dream in which he was told to make. sphinx told him he'd be a king if he uncovered next. stela thutmose IV ruled for 10 years and suppressed an uprising in nubia

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Grape vine ceiling, walls and columns of the subterranean chamber of Sennefer, mayor of Thebes under Amenhotep II, TT96b. One of the few Theban burial chambers to bear decoration. Dynasty 18. Intricate: interesting coz it's a noble

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“Colossi of Memnon” flanking the entrance to the (now destroyed) mortuary temple of Amenhotep III on the west bank at Thebes. Dynasty 18. sandstone; amenhotep III was the father of Ahkenatun, married to queen Tiye, worshipped as a god on earth during and after lifetime at the temple; temple complex was the most complicated and opulent in egypt

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Head of Queen Tiye (foreign princess from akhmim) from Amarna, now in Berlin. Dynasty 18. Wife of Amenhotep III. important influential woman. Headdress shows deification - her son did this. Worshipped as god in Nubia. yew wood w silver gold and faience

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Seated representation of Amenhotep IV in the tomb of the vizier Ramose, TT55. Thebes Dynasty 18. BEcomes akhenaten. Few normal depicitions compared to others - no pot belly, long limbs, egg head . before cultural revolution. Tomb of vizier v important high quality decor. later changed his name cultural revolution. present in both forms.

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Stela of the royal family, Akhenaten, Nefertiti and daughters in intimate setting, now in Berlin. Dynasty 18. Discovered in tell el-amarna. limestone. few pictures with children and woman. curvy, pot bellies, intimacy, elongated limbs. Sun disc - Aten. proto-monotheistic

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Cuneiform letter discovered in the Amarna records office from the king of Alashiya (Cyprus) to Akhenaten, mentioning a gift of 100 talents of copper and suggesting an alliance between the two kings. Dynasty 18. Amarna letters. language of mesopotamia

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Enigmatic erased/reused coffin from tomb KV55 in the Valley of the Kings, holding a mummy whose identity is still in dispute. believed to possibly be Akhenaten after ct and dna scans. face scratched off - could be moving back to aten. Dynasty 18.

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Howard Carter (1874-1939), discoverer of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922. he tripped and found underground passage to gate of horses. Archaelogist. he was an examiner at thebes.

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View into the antechamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, KV62, taken in 1922. Dynasty 18. found 5000 pieces. greatest collection, moved capital back to thebes

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Detail of Tutankhamen and Ankhesenamun (with Aten’s disk) on the gold throne found in the king’s tomb KV62. found by carter and carnarvon. Dynasty 18. Sun disk aten and amun. style of amarna period. transition

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General view of workmen’s village and their tombs of Deir el-Medineh, looking south. New Kingdom D 18-19. craftsman best evidence of everyday life. worked on valley of kings. fragments that have letters and handwriting since the craftsmen were literate. built their own tombs during time off

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View into the tomb of Nefertari (great royal wife of Ramesses II) in the Valley of Queens, west bank at Thebes. Dynasty 19. v66. largest tomb and most spectacular valley of queens tomb. power and significance. gender

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Silver coffin of Psusennes I (originally Merneptah’s from Thebes) from his tomb in the temple precinct at Tanis. Dynasty 21, reign of Psusennes (1040-992 B.C.). Silver was rare, trend of recycling / reusing.

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Bust of Montemhet as an aged official; now in the Cairo Museum. End of Dynasty 25-beginning of Dynasty 26, about 650 BC. Tombs look backward - mimics period. bust similar features of old Nubian King. black granite. theban official

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The island containing Philae temple dedicated to Isis (moved to the island of Agilkia in the 1960s due to flood waters from the Aswan High Dam). From Dynasty 30 to the Roman Period. They closed in later roman. changing religion - byzantine empire forbids last hiero site

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The Rosetta Stone, key to the decipherment of hieroglyphs; discovered in 1799 by Napoleon, handed over to the British in 1802 as war spoils; in the British Museum. Trilingual decree of the ninth year of Ptolemy V Epiphanes (196 BC). Demotic, greek, hieroglyphs. deciphered in 1822 by champolion. phonetic and ideographic. repatriation. ptolemy and cleopatras names

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Roman mummy portrait from Hawara, Fayum the final version of the ancient Egyptian funerary mask. Second century AD. naturalistic painted portrait on a wooden board and attached to mummies. found by petrie. rome was in control - more western

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Jean-Francois Champollion (1790-1832), decipherer of hieroglyphs in 1822. from rosetta stone. recognised as ideographic and phonetic. father of egyptology

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Lord Carnarvon (George Edward Stanhope Molyneux, fifth earl of Carnarvon) (1866-1923), patron funding Tutankhamun’s tomb excavation in Thebes V of the Kings. with Howard Carter. most famous

curse of tutankhamun. found in 1922. big find.

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