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I went to the desert in search of burning bushes and possibly a tablet or two, but instead found burning towers, seemingly emitting light on their own as the last rays of the sun hit them at day’s end.
Fisher Towers are magnificent structures consisting of slightly darker and harder Moenkopi sandstone caprocks (245 million years old) with lighter, striated mudstones and conglomerates of the Cutler Formation (290 million years old). The rocks are renowned for their brilliant color at sunset, as seen here.
The tower on the left is the Kingfisher (600’/ 183 m from base to top), and the group of towers on the right is called Ancient Arts (400’/ 122 m from base to top).
Amun was one of Egypt's oldest and most important gods. The Egyptians believed that Amun was one of eight gods who rose from the primal waters and made of the first rock. On top of the rock, the holy bird called the Great Cackler laid a smaller stone which became the sun. When Thebes became the capital of the country the power of the city's main god Amun also grew. During the 3rd Intermediate Period, the South was ruled by Amun's clergy. When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC, he procured himself the support of Amun's clergy by visiting the temple of the oracle at the oasis of Siwa. The worship of Amun continued throughout the Roman Period.
Bronze
Late Period
Egypt of Glory exhibition, Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki
From the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
9.10.2020-21.3.2021
This temple was once situated in the vicinity of the Roman fortress of Taphis (Taffeh) in Nubia. Nowadays it has a place in the central hall of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden) in Leiden. It was a gift from the Egyptian authorities in acknowledgment of the Dutch participation in the campaign to save the Nubian monuments near Abu Simbel, which were under threat because of the building of the Aswan High Dam in the Nile. The temple was built during the reign of Roman emperor Augustus.
Ix Wak Jalam Chan (Señora Seis Cielo) llegó a Sa'aal, ahora cerca de la frontera entre Belice y Guatemala, en 682 dC. Hija de un poderoso gobernante en una dinastía centenaria, se casó con un miembro de la familia gobernante local, asegurando una alianza política crítica. Gobernando como regente en lugar de su hijo pequeño, la reina dirigió campañas militares para conquistar las ciudades vecinas a finales del siglo VII y principios del VIII. Este monumento registra su triunfo: aparece con un cautivo bajo los pies y un cuenco con utensilios rituales en los brazos.
La leyenda jeroglífica también indica que ella se hace pasar por una diosa. Los artistas la retratan con atuendos espiritualmente cargados, que incluyen una falda tejida con cuentas de jade, un elaborado conjunto de cinturones con un ser acuático sobrenatural y un caparazón de Spondylus , y un tocado de plumas, que enfatiza la fluidez de la identidad entre los líderes humanos y los dioses. Con este retrato, subrayó tanto su destreza estratégica en la guerra como su derecho divino a gobernar.
Temples of Malta is an exhibition in Rijksmuseum van Oudheden at Leiden NL. It presents Malta’s rich prehistoric culture, a world of temples and tombs. A very old civilization (3600-2500 BC), 1000 years older than the pyramids.
More treasures of Malta at my Blog:
Detail of the Poseidon of Artemision. The statue represents Poseidon brandishing the trident with his raised right hand.
Date: 460 B.C.
It is also sometimes referred to as Zeus of Artemision.
Media: Bronze,
Size: 2.09 m (6' 10.5") high, 2.10 m (6' 10.75")
National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Egypt's final millennium was characterized by the merging of its culture with other Mediterranean cultures, such as the Greek and the Roman. A votive foot wearing a Roman sandal was a sacrifice usually offered to Isis and the Underworld god Serapis, a combination of Osiris and Apis. Both gods are depicted as human-headed snakes on the sides of the foot.
Marble
Roman Period
Provenance Caesareum, Alexandria
S. 17137 Museo Egizio
Egypt of Glory exhibition, Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki
From the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
9.10.2020-21.3.2021
Limestone
New Kingdom, early 19th dynasty
The exhibition 'Nefertari and the Valley of the Queens' from the Museo Egizio, Turin' in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, 2017
Incluye un texto en jeroglíficos egipcios, en escritura demótica y en griego antiguo. Su hallazgo permitió el entendimiento moderno de la escritura de Egipto. Representa un decreto de un consejo de sacerdotes que establece el culto al rey Ptolomeo V
Ostraca are shards of pottery and stone that were used for writing things on. Texts written on ostraca included receipts, letters, messages and hymns. These ostraca are inscribed in the demotic script that was developed in the 7th century BC from the earlier Egyptian hieroglyphic and hieratic scripts.
From left: 2,3 and 6 are from the Greco-Roman Period
4 is ostracon with Greek and Demotic writing also from the Greco-Roman Period, 5 and 7 are from the Greek Period
Clay
Egypt of Glory exhibition, Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki
From the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
9.10.2020-21.3.2021
This headrest of King Tutankhamun is similar in shape to a folding stool.
The pillow holder of the headrest is made of strands of ivory beads stained dark green, red-brown, and black.
The two sides are decorated with the face of the god, Bes of Joy, on their outer surface and a lotus flower on the inner surface. The legs end in ducks' heads.
JE 62023
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Head of a royal statue depicting probably Psamtek I (also known as Psamtik I, Psammetichus I)
Greywacke
26th dynasty
Provenance unknown
S. 1225/2 Museo Egizio
Egypt of Glory exhibition, Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki
From the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
9.10.2020-21.3.2021
Claudius. AD 41-54. Æ As (28mm, 12.09 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 42-43. Bare head left / Libertas standing facing, head right, holding pileus in right hand and extending left hand. RIC I 113; Cohen 47.
This is one of two statues that stood guarding the entrance of the burial chamber.
The king is wearing the khat headdress and is shown with black skin, the colour of Nile mud that flooded and gave it fertility every year. Black signified resurrection and the continuity of life.
18th dynasty, from the tomb of Tutankhamun - KV62
JE 60708 = SR 1/2 = Carter 029
Upper floor, gallery 45
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
The head of Sinbad is one of the high points of the San Rafael Swell, with creeks draining to the north, south, east and west. It is known for its monuments, towers, fins and walls, which create colorful and dramatic vistas. In a shallow alcove in a Wingate Sandstone cliff 200 feet tall is a pictograph panel at least 3,000 years old. This pictograph is remarkable for its detail and preservation. The art is attributed to the Barrier Canyon culture, which produced many pictograph panels featuring snakes and figures with large eyes.
I am fascinated with the pair of structures beside the central figure, but I do not know what they represent. Note also the main figure and the small tetrapod both have holes in their hands (or front feet).
The husband Weha and his wife Izuw are equal in size and their two children, Khufu-seneb and Ity are close to them showing respect.
Painted Limestone
From the Old Kingdom period
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
On both sides of the coffin, there is a representation of Agathodaimon, the benevolent and good-hearted spirit, who takes the shape of a snake and whose head is surmounted by the Double Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Wooden coffin from the Ptolemaic Period
Provenance Minya, Sharuna (El-Kom El-Ahmar)
BAAM 608
Antiquities Museum of Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Funerary papyrus, Book of Dead of Maiherpri
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose III
From Maiherpri's tomb KV36, Valley of the Kings, Thebes
CG 24095b - JE 33844
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Plastered and painted linen
Late Period-Greek Period
Egypt of Glory exhibition, Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki
From the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
9.10.2020-21.3.2021
The Marble relief of St. Menas represents him standing in supplication between two parched camels, wearing the Roman soldier's costume and a cloak on his shoulders.
Menas of Egypt, a martyr and wonder-worker, is one of the most well-known Coptic saints in the East and the West, due to the many miracles attributed to his intercession and prayers. Menas was a Coptic soldier in the Roman army who was martyred because he refused to recant his Christian faith. The common date of his commemoration is November 11, 13 days later (November 24) on the Julian calendar.
His feast day is celebrated annually on 15 Hathor in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, corresponding to November 24 on the Gregorian Calendar. In Eastern Orthodox churches that follow the old style or Julian calendar, it is likewise celebrated on November 24. In the Eastern Orthodox churches that follow the new style or Revised Julian calendar, and in the Catholic Church, it is celebrated on November 11.
Marble
No. 22273
6th Century AD
Coptic Art in the Graeco-Roman Museum
Alexandria Egypt
Cult objects reflect the beliefs of the population of a village where, from the 3rd century BC, Egyptians and people of Greek origin were living side by side, influencing each other. The most important divinity was the crocodile god Sobek, known locally by the name of Soknebtynis.
From the exhibition of 'Unexpected treasures - 30 years of excavations and cooperation in Tebtynis (Fayum)'
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
In the upper part of the coffin of Ankhefenamun is the sun-god Ra-Horakhte (Ra-Her-akhutij) in the shape of a falcon with his wings extended to protect the head of the mummy.
New Kingdom, 21st dynasty
Egypt of Glory exhibition, Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki
9.10.2020-21.3.2021
From the collection of the National Museum of Finland
14460:660 Cat 173
The Minoan column was constructed from the trunk of a cypress tree. The Minoan columns are smaller at the bottom and wider at the top.The columns at the Palace of Minos were painted red and mounted on stone bases with round, pillow-like capitals.
These wooden decorative elements depict the sons of Horus, of whom the jackal-headed Duamutef, the human-headed Imsety and the hawk-headed Qebehsenuef have been preserved. The baboon-headed Hapi is missing but also belongs to this scene. In front of them stands Thoth, the god of writing. Originally each figure would have held a staff in their hand, but they have gone missing over time.
Late Period-Greek Period
Egypt of Glory exhibition, Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki
From the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
9.10.2020-21.3.2021
Limestone group of Neb-neheh, a captain of archers, seated with his wife Bakirat, a chantress of Amun, possibly a foreigner judging from her name.
From Saqqara
19th dynasty
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Limestone stela of the sole companion and Mayor, Meni. Note that in all the figures of him the head has been damaged, probably as an act of vengeance.
Dendera
End of the First Intermediate Period
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Gilt-lacquered and polychrome wood carving
Japan, Kamakura period (1192-1333)
Fujifilm xt2
Leica Leitz Elmar 50mm
This wooden box represents a typically Egyptian shrine or naos with its tapering walls.
The naos is covered with a flat lid guarded by a figurine of a mummified falcon, whose head is equipped with a hole in which was, most probably, fixed the feather headdress - a characteristic depiction of Sokar, patron god of the Memphite necropolis, who is often shown in this position on the roof of the tomb of Osiris. Thus, the shrine is associated with the famous Osireion.
Wood
Provenance Gamhoud, Beni Sueif
Roman era, 1st to 2nd cent. AD
BAAM 618
Antiquities Museum of Bibliotheca Alexandrina
The upper part of the coffin is decorated with a funerary mask. The chest area is adorned with a seven-row pectoral composed of floral and geometrical motifs. On both sides of the coffin, there is a representation of Agathodaimon, the benevolent and good-hearted spirit, who takes the shape of a snake and whose head is surmounted by the Double Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Wooden coffin from the Ptolemaic Period
Provenance Minya, Sharuna (El-Kom El-Ahmar)
BAAM 608
Antiquities Museum of Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Fisher Towers, Utah
The famous 4-summited Ancient Art tower has been the subject of several commercials. Fisher Towers takes on amazing orange and red color (Cutler formation capped by Moenkopi sandstone) at low light in the late afternoon towards sunset. The Professor Valley takes its name from Sylvester Richardson, who settled the valley in the 1870's after purportedly leaving a position at a college- locals called him "the Professor."
Merged image from three shots
God Seth protecting a king
Provenance unknown
19th dynasty
CG 42993
Ground Floor, Room 14
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
The jackal-headed deity Anubis is represented with the serpent-god Nehebu-Kau and below them are depicted two of the mummiform sons of Horus: the human-headed Imsety and the jackal-haded Duamutef.
The naos is covered with a flat lid guarded by a figurine of a mummified falcon.
Wood
From wooden naos of the god Horus
Provenance Gamhoud, Beni Sueif
Roman era, 1st to 2nd cent. AD
BAAM 618
Antiquities Museum of Bibliotheca Alexandrina
A man in his 50's working a loom near Aswan, Egypt.
Click twice to enlarge.
Pentax 645Nii, Pentax-A SMC 55mm f/2.8
Fuji Pro400h (frozen expired)
Cinestill CS41 @ 39C, Filmomat 2.0
Nikon Coolscan 9000 ED
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Upon his arrival from the other world, the sun god purifies himself in the eastern horizon before his shining in Heaven, where the four gods Horus, the Lord of the North, Seth, the Lord of the South, Dewen-anwy, the Lord of the east, and Thoth, the Lord of the West, pour the water of life and power over him from the four corners of the universe.
This rare statue depicts king Amenhotep II, assimilated with the sun god in his shining in the moment of his purification on the horizon.
Alabaster
New Kingdom, 18th dynasty
Valley of the Kings, Thebes
NMEC National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Fustat Cairo
Wood, stucco
Late Period
Egypt of Glory exhibition, Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki
From the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
9.10.2020-21.3.2021