The Puzzle of Egyptian Art. Dismembering an Iconography to Understand it.
As we have seen in a previous post, the iconography of this coffin contains traditional images of Egyptian art to guarantee the resurrection of the deceased. In...
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Isis and Nephthys: Key for the Eternity of “Qurna Queen”.
I would like to focus on an exceptional coffin located in the National Museum of Scotland. Because it contains a depiction of Isis and Nephthys, that well deser...
Isis and Nephthys Separated after Death.
In this post I would like to focus on two wooden sculptures of Isis and Nephthys. They are nowadays in two different museums; one is in the Art and History Muse...
Hair and Movement in the Post-Amarna Period.
The artists in ancient Egypt used the bending hair for drawing body movements. The Egyptian artists in Amarna could also depict hair in a more plastic and less ...
The Egyptian Coffin of Iineferty and Her Two Daughters.
Egyptian coffin was a good surface for decoration. And usually this decoration was quite standard. For example, goddess Nut was depicted on the chest of the mum...
The Ancient Egyptian Funerary Rite of Theban Tomb TT175.
Ancient Egyptian archaeology is plenty of small remains which are big in information. For instance the ushabti of Pay and Repit is a small artifact, which goes ...
The Senet Game: Three Steps to Eternity.
The Senet game of Ancient Egypt was a board game for leisure in common life, which also had its funerary side. It was present in the wall decoration and was par...
Funerary Mask of Artemidora: Solar and Osirian Resurrection.
Recently we posted about the decoration on the upper register of the funerary mask of Artemidora. In it, we could differentiate two main elements: to the mourni...
The two Mourners in the funerary Mask of Artemidora.
We know how important was the decoration on the corpse in Ancient Egypt. The egyptian artist selected the most effective iconography for the benefit of the dece...
Osiris at both sides of Artemidora.
The both sides of the mummy was a good place for strategical iconography. At first sight, it seems that the Egyptian artist did not spend many sources in the de...
Isis and Nephthys on the feet of Artemidora.
Isis and Nephthys are the most preeminent figures on the decoration over the mummy of Artemidora. Over the wrappings of the feet, two appliqués of gold depicted...
Isis and Nephthys on the Mummy of Artemidora
Looking carefully at the decoration on the mummy of Artemidora we can discover the intentions of the artist.
Nefertiti granted the resurrection of Akhenaten. Part I
Let’s start with that: women were crucial in Ancient Egypt for the dead’s resurrection. The rite of the professional mourning ritual in ancient Egyptian funeral...
SUPERPOSITION IN ANCIENT EGYPT. ISIS AND NEPHTHYS OVERLAPED.
The artists of Ancient Egypt had a particular conception of perspective, which affected in the way they depicted groups of living beings and amounts of things. ...
In Ancient Egypt were Isis and Nephthys Essential in Cartonnages.
Cartonnages in Ancient Egypt were used over the wrapped mummy mainly for mummy masks and some important parts of the body. The cartonnage of Irtirutja in the Me...
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 jou...
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 co...
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 iconogra...
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...
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...
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 pract...
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 i...
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...
Nephthys in Ancient Egypt, Assitant of Isis.
In the last post it was considered the role of Nephthys in the religion of Ancient Egypt. It is a fact that Nephtys was a very important goddess in the ancient ...
Had in Ancient Egypt the Goddess Nephthys a Lower Status?
There is a scene of the Book of the Dead from the tomb of Ay, in which are depicted on the solar boat the gods of the Heliopolitan cosmogony and the Myth of Osi...
Requirements of Professional Mourners in Ancient Egypt.
Among the Ancient Egypt gods, Isis and Nephtys occupied a very important role. It is an ancient Egypt fact, that the two professional mourners in the role of Is...
Sexual Stimulation in Ancient Egypt: The Ushabti of Pay.
In ancient Egypt the dead needed many faculties for restarting his new life in the Hereafter: breathing, seeing, walking…and virility. Sex was an essentia...