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art egyptien - barque mortuaire (detail)
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art egyptien - barque mortuaire
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art egyptien - tete du roi Toutankhamon (1336 B.C. - 1327 B.C.)
This sandstone head depicts the triangular face and recognizable features of Tutankhamen, whose tomb was discovered almost intact in 1922. In the center of the brow is a socket for the addition of a uraeus serpent, symbol of royalty, in another mater ...

bas-relief figurant un harpiste aveugle (-1333 -1319)
Leiden Rijksmuseum van Oudheden ...


art egyptien - tete du roi Toutankhamon (1336 B.C. - 1327 B.C.)
This sandstone head depicts the triangular face and recognizable features of Tutankhamen, whose tomb was discovered almost intact in 1922. In the center of the brow is a socket for the addition of a uraeus serpent, symbol of royalty, in another mater ...

art egyptien - Relief of Akhenaten as a sphinx (1349 B.C. - 1336 B.C.)
The association of royalty with the majestic and powerful lion can be traced back to the earliest periods. The human-headed lion, or sphinx, was also identified with aspects of the sun god. In this example, King Akhenaten crouches before a table of o ...

Ahmose And Baketre (-1488 -1411)
This noble couple are mother and son, but are represented as equally young and vigorous. The statue group does not represent their actual appearance, but shows them as they wished to be in the kingdom of the gods after their death. The refined, elega ...

Mummy Case For A Cat (-696 -296)
Thousands of Egyptian cats were embalmed and presented as offerings to the goddesses Bastet and Pakhet. The mummies were often placed in costly, cat-shaped mummy cases like this one. The Egyptians believed that the “souls” of the goddesse ...

Nekhet-kawi's Double Mummy Case (-2147 -2047)
The eyes on the outside of Nekhet-kawi’s mummy case were magic symbols of multiple aspects. In the first instance they restored the dead person’s sight, so that he or she could see out into the realm of the living. Secondly they were a pr ...

The Stele of Roma the Doorkeeper, Dedicated of the Goddess Astarte (-1401 -1363)
The Egyptians almost never depicted illness. This instance is one of the exceptions. One of the man’s legs is withered and the foot only supports itself on the toes. It is the opinion of quite a number of doctors that these deformities are due ...

art egyptien - Stele of Zezen-nakht (about 2000 BCE)
The figure of Zezen-nakht stands as a commanding presence on this stele, a free-standing marker stone, set up in the offering chamber of Zezen-nakht's tomb in the huge cemetery at Naga-ed-Dęr, a village about seventy miles northwest of Luxor. Zezen- ...