Bastet, the Egyptian cat goddess, was said to protect women and children as well as guard the sun s power to ripen crops. Our museum-quality standing sculpture, with details including an ankh, scarab and traditional Egyptian dress, is crafted of quality designer resin, hand-painted in a ...
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The limestone funerary stela of Neankhteti, c.2,250 BCE, is a fine example (Merseyside County Museums, Liverpool). The major part of the stela, the figure and the horizontal inscription above it, is in low relief, but an incised vertical panel of hieroglyphs repeats his name with another...
All Egyptian remains have sets of teeth in quite poor states. Dental disease could even be fatal, such as for Djedmaatesankh a musician from Thebes who dies around the age of thirty five from extensive dental diseases and a huge infected cyst. If an individuals teeth escaped being worn dow...
is seen as a mummified man who wears a skull cap and holds theWas sceptercombined with the Ankh and theDjedforming the scepter of authority. The name of Egypt was derived from the Greek word Aigyptos which corresponds to the word Hat-Ka-Ptah which means "Temple of the Soul of Ptah" ...
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the wide rounded collar originated as a type of armor. One famous Bastet statue showed her wearingan earring and a nose piercing.Classically, she carried a sistrum, which was a percussion instrument that resembles a rattle. On occasion, she was pictured holding an ankh (symbol of life) or ...
There is no article in Akehnaton's name; and there is no article in Tutankhamon's original name, which was Tutankhaton, . No article. However, we then see the articles in the names of the royal women, such as Tutankhamon's sister, wife, and Queen, originally Ankhesenpaaton, , "...
Note:The Ankh symbol is a symbol of life, protection, faith, energy, transformation, light, and fertility. The Ankh can also refer to the concepts and symbols of sexual union between the two opposite sexes and fertility due to its connection to the goddess Isis. The Ankh is the clearest ...
Section of wall relief depicting a scene of statue-dragging before the tomb owner, with offering bearers below, from the tomb chapel of Niankhnesut, Saqqara, early 6th Dynasty (NMS A.1958.46). The king and his officials used their ability to dominate the natural world to justify their righ...