SIIAS @ CSI Artifacts - EGYPTIAN/NEAR EAST

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1. Two statuettes of ISIS with HORUS. Terracotta (A3285.3) and bronze (Ax54.111.11)

2. MACE HEAD showing HORUS in the form of a hawk. Bronze, c. 663-535 BCE (A56.73.1)

3. Three statuettes of OSIRIS. Bronze, Late Period, 712-30 BCE. (58.68; A449.2; 58.68.8 - A449.3)

4. Head of SACRED IBIS BIRD (THOTH). Bronze, XXVI Dynasty, 664-525 BCE (A56.80.1).

5-6. Four SCARABS (Beetle-shaped amulets). Heart scarab with human face, steatite (AX54.111.8a); faience, A58.68.4; A70.7.20; A70.7.10). Late Period? 712-30 BCE.

7. Hand of a MUMMY. Embalmed human tissue and linen (L78.21)

8. Canopic jar lid representing IMSETY, one of the four GENII of the DEAD. Wood, painted (A58.3.2)

9. SHAWABTY figurine. Wood with traces of gesso and polychromy. Egyptian. (A70.70.29)

10. Four SHAWABTY figurines, some with hieroglyphics, of various periods. Faience, wood, and terracotta, some with traces polychromy.

11. SHAWABTY figurine with hieroglyphics. Blue faience (A70.70.26)

12. Kneeling figurine of a MAN, perhaps an Oarsman from a Model Ship. Wood with polychromy. Middle Kingdom(?), c. 2040-1790 BCE (58.5)

13-15. Funerary statue of a MAN. Wood and polychromy. Middle Kingdom, XII Dynasty, 1991-1784 BCE (A58.3.1)

16. Mesopotamian Cuneiform TABLET, with 5-6 lines of script. Terracotta (inv. 84)

17-18. NECKLACE of beads and amulets. Modern stringing, faience (A70.70.29)



Photographs by Peter Finger or Linda Roccos
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