The Royal Prince Tutankhuaton. An Innovation in the Art of Amarna
A block from Ashmunein showing Tutankhuaton as royal prince, an innovation in the art of Amarna.
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Lunar Rituals with Hair in the Ancient Egyptian City of Heliopolis.
Lunar Rituals with Hair in the Ancient Egyptian City of Heliopolis.
It seems that in Ancient Egypt there were a relationship between the hair element and some rites of Heliopolis. The funerary texts show that the hair, the lock of hair and the cut of this lock of hair were somehow connected with religious practices of this ancient...
Young Girls with Common Mourners in Ancient Egypt.
Young Girls with Common Mourners in Ancient Egypt.
Tha artist in Ancient Egypt followed the rule of depicting children with the side lock of hair. However, this archetype so common in the Old and Middle Kingdom, had some changes from the New Kingdom on. It is specially evident in the mourning scenes. Among the...
A New Ancient Egyptian Tomb with Typical Funerary Scene Discovered.
A New Ancient Egyptian Tomb with Typical Funerary Scene Discovered.
Ancient Egypt gives us again a good document. The tomb of Amenhotep, the Gater's keeper of god Amun, has been discovered in Gourna. Although it is still too soon for seeing the whole decoration, some images of the walls can help us to imagine how could be some...
In Ancient Egypt Isis and Nephthys became Midwifes of Nut.
In Ancient Egypt Isis and Nephthys became Midwifes of Nut.
The most evident proof of the importance in Ancient Egypt of Isis and Nephthys in a rebirth process is in the Books of the Day and Night, which describe the journey of the sun god through the sky. According to the thought of Ancient Egypt, especially during the New...
Isis and Nephthys rising Osiris-Re in the XX Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.
Isis and Nephthys rising Osiris-Re in the XX Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.
The religion of Ancient Egypt developed during the New Kingdom sophisticated religious texts, which combined the solar theology with the Myth of Osiris. As a consequence, the art of ancient Egypt included in its corpus of images a new solar-Osirian iconography. As...
Isis and Nephthys in Ancient Egyptian Solar Iconography.
Isis and Nephthys in Ancient Egyptian Solar Iconography.
It was a fact, that the ancient Egyptian corpus of images needed an iconography for expressing the union of Re and Osiris. And little by little in this iconography Isis and Nephthys, the two mourners of Osiris, became essential. In the XIX Dynasty the ancient...
Isis and Nephthys, Essential in the Ancient Egyptian Union of Re and Osiris.
Isis and Nephthys, Essential in the Ancient Egyptian Union of Re and Osiris.
The union of Re and Osiris supposed a challenge to the Ancient Egyptian Art, since new iconography was needed for decorating the tomb walls and the papyri. From the XVIII Dynasty, some passages of the Book of the Dead were introduced in the royal tombs decoration...
Ancient Egyptian Union and Rebirth of Re and Osiris.
Ancient Egyptian Union and Rebirth of Re and Osiris.
The union of Re and Osiris in ancient Egyptian culture produced as a result new decorative motives in the ancient Egyptian iconography. The earth god and the sky god needed to be reconciled in religious scenes and from the New Kingdom artist worked in creating new...
A challenge in the Art of Ancient Egypt: Osirian-Solar Iconography.
A challenge in the Art of Ancient Egypt: Osirian-Solar Iconography.
One of the main challenges for priests and artists in Ancient Egypt were to combine the osirian and solar cosmogonies in the funerary literature and iconography. The two main pillars in the belief of resurrection in Ancient Egypt were the myth of Osiris and the...
Ancient Egypt Resurrection. The Penis of Tutankhamun.
Ancient Egypt Resurrection. The Penis of Tutankhamun.
In Ancient Egypt, virility was an essential faculty for granting the dead's resurrection. All along my work I have been showing that, among the many practices in Ancient Egypt for reviving the corpse, there was one made by the professional mourners in the role of...
Isis in Ancient Egypt: A Winged Snake with Hathoric Crown.
Isis in Ancient Egypt: A Winged Snake with Hathoric Crown.
There is always news about artifacts of Ancient Egypt. Now it is the turn of the coffin of "Denit-Ast". It dates from the Persian Period and it is in the Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum. As Gayle Gibson exposed, this coffin has many oddities in its decoration, which...
Isis with Apis in Ancient Egypt Iconography.
Isis with Apis in Ancient Egypt Iconography.
Isis and Osiris were in the religion of Ancient Egypt the perfect couple. Despite the murder of Osiris, they could go on, Isis could revive her husband and both could have a boy. But Osiris was replaced by Apis. In the mortuary iconography of Ancient Egypt the...