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I didn't know where or what the color balance on this should have been. The lighting varied a lot throughout this otherwise fine museum. I had desaturated this a bit rather than muck with the colors.
2018: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
Khafre was an ancient Egyptian King (pharaoh) of the 4th Dynasty during the Old Kingdom. Khafre was the builder who made the second largest pyramid of Giza. The view held by modern Egyptology at large continues to be that the Great Sphinx was built in approximately 2500 BC for Khafre.
Replica - Taken at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, CA.
The pharaoh Ramses II finally died at about 96 years of age, having outlived twelve of his sons. His son Merenptah, the thirteenth heir, was middle-aged when he was crowned king.
He reigned only a few years, but he did keep the Lybians and mysterious “Sea Peoples” at bay when they attempted to invade Egypt during the 19th Dynasty.
Merenptah was buried in tomb KV8, in the Valley of the Kings. When archaeologist discovered his tomb, they found it had been robbed and his mummy was nowhere to be found. His mummy was later recovered with several others in the tomb of Amenhotep II, probably placed there by priests who moved the bodies to keep them from being destroyed by looters.
This piece was cast directly from a mold created by Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at Mereptah’s tomb in Biban el Moluk in Egypt.
Cast obtained from the Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, RC 1636
Camera: LargeSense LS911 Pre Production Large format digital camera (single shot sensor, size bigger than 8x10 inch).
Late afternoon sun. Tri color exposure. Taking separate red, green and blue exposures.
Lens: Schneider Kreuznach G-Claron 9/305
Schott B38 filter
The palm trees were moving in the wind between color exposures making color artifacts on the building.
Taken at the Egyptian Rosicrucian Museum, San Jose, California.
The cuneiform writing on this monumental stela tells of the sieges and conquests of King Esarhaddon (680-669 BCE). He was one of the most powerful kings on the Assyrian Empire. Although he conquered many lands, including Egypt in 671 BCE, he was also renowned as a great builder. His building projects included the reconstruction of the famous ancient city of Babylon.
In this cast, Esarhaddon holds captive two figures, possibly King Ba’al of the city of Tyre and the son of the Nubian pharaoh Taharqa.
This piece was cast by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin’s Gipsformerei (Replica workshop). The Gipsformerei was founded by King Frederick William III to recreate artwork that was not available in Prussia. In 1830 the Gipsformerei became part of the Royal Prussian Museums, now the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Some of the molds in its collection are over 150 years old and can be used to study details on statues that have since been deteriorated by pollution and the elements. This piece arrived at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in1966, and the original is housed in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
Cast obtained in 1966 from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, RC 1832
I don't know what happened to this fellow's legs. Some short--midgets? dwarfs?-- people have particularly short legs, but I have never seen anyone like this.
2018: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
I don't understand the extent to which the power "elite" celebrate themselves.
2018: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum is a museum about Ancient Egypt located at Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis Rosicrucian Park in the Rose Garden neighborhood of San Jose, California.
So the light source here is actually a very large star with a cross in the middle that is made up of many lightbulbs, mixed with a very foggy California morning. My "next door neighbors" are the Rosicrucian Fellowship of Christian Mystics. Not sure what all that entails but I freaking love the shot. Totally made being up at the crack of dawn worth it! I have photographed their temple in the past, its in my stream here www.flickr.com/photos/sebastian_humphreys/4590356756/in/s...
another great abandoned house find by Aces & Eights Photography.
I must admit I had never heard of the Rosicrucians or their beliefs till I seen these old '50s magazines in this great old house near Adeline,IL. The owner of this house was into this and old health "cures"-there was packaging lying around of these mail order health cures promising to cure everything....
I hope he(or she) lived a long life and they are with their fellow Rosicrucians now....
The rosy cross, the Rosicrucian symbol clearly on display at Rosslyn Chapel, Edinburgh. Metaphysic is permanent truths, statements about eternal realities.Metaphysics is what is beyond and above nature.
Replica - Taken at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, CA.
More than one thousand years after its completion, Pharaoh Thutmose IV (1400 – 1390 BCE) undertook the first major restoration of the Great Sphinx. He erected a massive granite stele between the paws of the Sphinx as a monument to that restoration and to commemorate his succession to the throne. The inscription recounts a dream the young prince had while sleeping under the head of the Sphinx, which was half-buried in sand at the time. It states:
“Now the statue of the very great Khepri (The Great Sphinx) rested in this place, great of fame, sacred of respect, the shade of Ra resting on him. Memphis and every city on its two sides came to him, their arms in adoration to his face, bearing great offerings for his ka. One of these days it happened that Prince Thutmose came traveling at the time of midday. He rested in the shadow of this great deity. (Sleep and) dream (took possession of him) at the moment the sun was at its zenith.”
“Then he found the majesty of this noble deity speaking from his own mouth like a father speaks to his son, saying: ‘Look at e, observe me, my son Thutmose. I am your father Horemakhet-Khepri-Ra-Atum. I shall give you the kingship (upon the land before the living)… (Behold, my condition is like one in illness), all (my limbs being ruined). The sand of the desert, upon which I used to be, (now) confronts me; and it is in order to cause that you do what is in my heart that I have waited.’”
During the first year of his reign as king, Thutmose IV fulfilled his promise to the Sphinx. His restoration project freed the Sphinx from the sand and reestablished its worship center at Giza.
This cast is life-size, but only shows the readable portion of the tablet. The original stela is 12 feet (3.6 meters) tall and weighs approximately 15 tons.
RC 1834
San Jose, California
Postmarked July ? 1946
Pub. By D. A.Milligan News Agency, San Jose, Cal – Chamber of Com. Photo Natural Color Post Card Made in U.S.A. by E.C. Kropp Co. Milwaukee, Wis. (Eay)
Postcard from my collection.
Full page illustration found on page 21 of the second part of The Secret Symbols of The Rosicrucians. This is one of the most complex of the diagrams found within the book, showing the connections between God, nature, man, philosophy, magic, alchemy. Peculiar phrases such as "The beginning of a thing is the beginning of its end," "When thou knowesth thyself, shalt thou know this symbol," and "He who has eyes shall see," are found dotted throughout the illustration. The influence of Hermeticism, alchemy, occult beliefs, and religion, is overabundant.
From The Secret Symbols of The Rosicrucians [1888]
The Ferguson Collection (Ref: Ferguson Ag-x.16)
View the catalogue online: eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b1756172