Egiptul Antic
Egiptul este caminul unora dintre cele mai faimoase si mai uimitoare monumente antice din lume si se afla in nordul Africii.
08/02/2024
Goddess Nephthys with her outspread wings, depicted on the second-largest shrine within Tutankhamun's tomb.
Read more: https://egypt-museum.com/goddess-nephthys-with-her-outspread-wings/
06/02/2024
View inside of the Egyptian Museum of Turin Italy
06/02/2024
Golden cuff bracelet of Prince Nemareth (Nimlot B)
22nd Dynasty, c. 940 B.C.
Sa el-Hagar, Sais, Egypt.
British Museum. EA14595
Read more: https://egypt-museum.com/prince-nemareth/
06/02/2024
Canopic shrine of Tutankhamun on gilt wooden sledge, tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings. Tutankhamun was the 18th Dynasty pharaoh who came to the throne at the age of 8 or 9 (reigned c. 1334-1325 BC).
06/02/2024
Pair of gold earrings with an Egyptian Atef crown set with stones and glass
Hellenistic Period, 3rd–2nd century B.C.
Materials: Gold, Silver & Glass
Met Museum. 1995.539.11a, b
06/02/2024
El Trono Dorado de Tutankamon 😱😱
06/02/2024
Scarab necklace found in the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. It dates to the 14th century BC.
It is in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
05/02/2024
Inlaid Gold Bracelet of King Psusennes I
Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, reign of Psusennes I, c. 1047-1001 B.C.
Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 85160
Read more: https://egypt-museum.com/inlaid-gold-bracelet-of-psusennes-i/
05/02/2024
Abu Simbel (6):
Between the two sets of colossal statues outside the Great Temple at Abu Simbel stands a statue of the god Re-Horakhty—to whom the temple is principally dedicated—flanked by a relief of Rameses II on either side.
Re-Horakhty ('Re-flying-high-within-the-horizons') was a falcon-headed combination of the sun god Re and the god Horus (the son of Isis and Osiris) from whom all the kings of Egypt were believed to be descended. Re-Horakhty was essentially the midday representation of Re, when the sun god was at his most powerful in his daily journey across the sky.
In his right hand, Re-Horakhty holds the jackal headed sign for power ('user'), and, in his left, the figure of the goddess of truth, justice and cosmic order, Maat. The ancient Egyptians were fond of word puzzles and this one spells out the first part of the name that Rameses II took when he became king, User-maat-Re ('the justice of Re is powerful' (in full 'Usermaatre-Setpenre'—adding 'chose of Re')).
The principal duty of an Egyptian king was to maintain cosmic order ('maat') in the face of chaos, not least by making offerings to the gods and, here, either side of Re-Horakhty, Rameses II offers an image of Maat to the central figure.
Yet his offering is not only to the central figure in that Rameses—who was certainly no retiring wallflower—is also effectively making the offering to his own name.
The theme of Rameses II's divine ambitions will be explored further as we enter the interior of the Great Temple next Friday.
(Photo: mine; If you are enjoying my posts about Abu Simbel, please consider purchasing my book 'Abu Simbel and the Nubian Temples'.)
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