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Eternal Egypt: Single Comb
The rectangular comb has a thick beveled handle decorated with water lilies in high relief. The teeth of the comb are quite strong and spaced at one-and-a-half to two-millimeter intervals.
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Eternal Egypt: Osirian Jar
The lid of this white marble jar depicts the head of the god Osiris, while the body is in the shape of the canopic jars that contain the viscera of the deceased. The body of the jar is decorated with a high relief of Harpocrates and Isis.
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Eternal Egypt: Mask of Yuya
On this mask of Yuya, the eyes are inlaid with white marble and black obsidian. The necklace is depicted in relief on the plaster. However, the chin is missing.
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Eternal Egypt: Mastaba of Ti
The mastaba, or tomb, of Ti is about 500 meters or 1640 feet northwest of the Pyramid of Djoser. Its entrance leads to a huge columned courtyard with superb reliefs of agriculture and daily life scenes.
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Eternal Egypt: Limestone Frieze
This limestone frieze is carved in relief with vine leaves and two bunches of grapes. This frieze originally adorned a wall.
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Eternal Egypt: Model of a Column
The capital of this column is in the form of a lotus flower and its details are carved in relief. The shaft is cylindrical and is set on a rounded base.
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Eternal Egypt: Marble Statue of a Stylized Lion
The marble Statue, of a stylized lion carved in relief demonstrates the craftsman's skill. The lion, a symbol of Sultan Baybars Al-Bunduqdari, was originally painted and a rosette can be seen on its shoulder.
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Eternal Egypt: Panel of Zeus and Leda
The low-relief carved in limestone shows the mythological union of Leda and Zeus, who is disguised in the form of a swan.
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Eternal Egypt: Part of a Wall of a Tomb
This is part of a wall from a tomb, on which the deceased is depicted in high relief, seated and wearing a pectoral around his neck.
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Eternal Egypt: Scenes of the Opet Feast
The relief on both long walls of the colonnade of Amenhotep the Third at the Luxor Temple shows the Opet feast, which celebrates the journey of the small ships that carry the statues of the Theban Triad from the Temple at Karnak to the...
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Eternal Egypt: Piece of Doll Shaped Bone
This piece of bone is fashioned in the shape of a doll; the head is square, almost rectangular, and the nose is narrow and straight in low-relief.
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Eternal Egypt: Painting of Zeus and Leda
A painted low-relief depicts Zeus and Leda. Zeus took the shape of a swan and abducted Leda with the help of Eros, the god of love. The engraving shows the influence of Ancient Greek mythology in the Christian era.
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Eternal Egypt: Sarcophagus of Queen Kawit
The sarcophagus of Queen Kawit, who was the wife of King Montuhotep the Second, was one of the most noteworthy in terms of the low-relief sculpture in the Theban court. The outer faces of this limestone sarcophagus are decorated with...
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Eternal Egypt: Marble Capital of a Column
The marble capital, the remainder of what was once a column, is decorated with Naskh inscriptions carved in relief. It is from the Ayyubid period.
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Eternal Egypt: Refined Shawabti Statuette
This shawabti statuette wears a broad collar and a long tripartite wig. The facial features of the shawabti are modeled in relief. Its crossed hands hold a pair of bladed hoes against his shoulders.
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Eternal Egypt: Portion of a Wall of a Tomb
This raised relief cut from a tomb shows the deceased together with his wife.
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Eternal Egypt: Naos of Ramesses the Second
The naos, or shrine, was found as part of a pair that stood in the great Temple of Amun-Re in Tanis. It is carved both inside and out in sunk relief with scenes of Ramesses the Second making offerings to the gods of Heliopolis.
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Eternal Egypt: Horus With the Double Crown
The statue depicts the falcon Horus wearing the Double Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. It stands majestically, as if prepared to protect its dedicator. The eyes are large and outlined with relief and the beak is short and neat. Some...
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Eternal Egypt: Stela of Ahmose Mery Netjer
This Serapeum stela contains a low relief text giving the genelogy of Ahmose-Mery-Netjer. The Serapeum is the necropolis of the Apis Bulls
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Eternal Egypt: Tombstone With Floral Designs
This part of a square tombstone is made of limestone. The two pillars that flank the main part of the tombstone are carved in high relief.
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Eternal Egypt: Glass Dish Fragment With Peacock
The glass dish bowed fragment has a carving in high relief of an abstracted bird resembling a peacock.
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Eternal Egypt: Stela of Shedi
This stela shows the owner, Shedi, in a starched kilt in one scene and wearing the traditional kilt in another. The main scene depicts him sitting at an offering table.
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Eternal Egypt: Musicians Playing
This block shows a musical party. The left side of the block shows six girls holding musical instruments. To the right, two men are playing a harp and others are keeping the rhythm by clapping their hands.
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Eternal Egypt: Nefertiti Worshiping Aten
This block illustrates Queen Nefertiti worshiping the god Aten in the form of the sun disk, the rays of which end in human hands holding Ankh signs.