| Musicians
E-75 Musicians Size: 17" H x 15" W |
Dynasty XVIII 1450 B.C |
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According to the great quantity of musical instruments found in the tombs, music was a source of pleasure and relaxation for rich Egyptians. The main instrument was the harp, followed by the flute. In this representation of a painting in the tomb of Nakht (an astronomer of the God Amun during the kingdom of Amenhotep III) we see a flute player, A harp player and a youth playing the norva; the latter one being close to our banjo and made out of a turtle shell. The three instrumentalists are lightly dressed with transparent clothes and veils. They have incense sticks over the head to perfume the body and hair. |
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| Musicians
E-08 Musicians Size: 9" H x 14" W |
Dynasty XVIII 1450 B.C |
| Musicians
E-08S Musicians Size: 9" H x 14" W |
Dynasty XVIII 1450 B.C |
| Frog Goddess Heket
E-52 Frog Goddess Heket Size: 3" H (7.5cm) |
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| The Goddess Heket, who was represented in the form of an Egyptian frog or with a frog's head, was worshipped especially in the town of Hew-Wer as the female complement of Khnum. Together with other Gods she assisted in fashioning the child in the womb and presided over the birth in her capacity of midwife. Amulets and scarabs worn by women to protect them during childbirth often bear the image of the Frog Goddess. The life-giving powers of Heket enabled her to be adopted as a benign deity fit to accompany Osiris, in whose temble at Abidos she receives wine from King Seti I and is labelled "Mistress of the Two Lands". | |
| Cat Relief
E-78 Cat Relief Size: 3" H (7.5cm) |
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The first reference to the domestic cat appears in the eleventh dynasty. Because it was hostile to snakes, it became a sacred animal of the Sun God. In the New Kingdom, the male cat was regarded as an incarnation of the Sun God and the female cat was equated with the solar eye. Feline figures may display a scarab, the symbol of the rising sun, engraved on the head or breast thus showing their solar significance. The domestic cat attained special significance as the sacred animal of the Goddess Bastet. Hundreds of figures were set up as votive offerings in the temple at Bubastis in order that the donor might share in the Goddess's grace. Actual mummies of cats were buried by the thousands in special cemeteries in the area. |
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| Obelisk
E-118 Obelisk Size: 16.5" H (42cm) |
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Obelisks are slender four-sided tapering monuments, usually hewn of single pieces of stone, with pyramid-like terminations, sometimes encased in copper or another metal. Traditionally, they were sacred to the Sun God, Ra. Usually the four faces were deeply incised with hieroglyphs and symbols related to the names and titles of the kings who commissioned them. Metaphysically, the obelisk can be considered an extended pyramid, a conduit which draws down spiritual energy and grounds it on the physical plane. |
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