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The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings) was a funerary figurine used in ancient Egyptian funerary practices. The Egyptological term is derived from 𓅱𓈙𓃀𓏏𓏭𓀾 wšbtj , which replaced earlier 𓆷𓍯𓃀𓏏𓏭𓀾 šwbtj , perhaps the nisba of 𓈙𓍯𓃀𓆭 šwꜣb " Persea tree".
Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts [1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo) British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts [2] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory) [3] [4]
Egyptian faience is a sintered-quartz ceramic material from Ancient Egypt. The sintering process "covered [the material] with a true vitreous coating" as the quartz underwent vitrification , creating a bright lustre of various colours "usually in a transparent blue or green isotropic glass".
Henut-wedjebu was an ancient Egyptian noblewoman buried in the late Eighteenth Dynasty during the reigns of Amenhotep III or Amenhotep IV.She is known from her intact burial at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, discovered in 1896 by French Egyptologist Georges Daressy.
The contents of the tomb, which at the time of the discovery appeared undisturbed, was mainly sold to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Among the objects of the funerary equipment, the most famous are the wooden models of soldiers: a group of striding Egyptian spearmen [ 1 ] equipped with a hide shield and a white skirt, and another group composed ...
Scarab seal of the ancient Egyptian keeper of the seal (i.e. treasurer) Senebsumai. The inscription says: "Royal sealer, companion, keeper of the seal, Senebsumai" . From Kahun, early 13th Dynasty, Second Intermediate Period, now likely in the Petrie Museum
As early as the Old Kingdom (c. 2670–2195 B.C.), Egyptian artisans fashioned images of deities, kings, and mortals wearing broad collars made of molded tubular and teardrop beads. [1] The Usekh or Wesekh is a personal ornament, a type of broad collar or necklace, familiar to many because of its presence in images of the ancient Egyptian elite.
Sennedjem was an ancient Egyptian official active in the early Nineteenth Dynasty during the reigns of the pharaohs Seti I and Ramesses II. [4] He bore the title "servant in the Place of Truth" (sḏm ꜥš m s.t mꜣꜥ.t), [5] which indicates he was part of the community of royal tomb builders at Deir el-Medina. [6]