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Tag: Nephthys

Iconopgraphy in the Clay Coffin of Men.
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The Puzzle of Egyptian Art. Dismembering an Iconography to Understand it.

Posted on 27/12/2021 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

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...

The foot of the lid of the coffin showing Isis and Nephthys in mourning gesture. Photo National Museum of Scotland.
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Isis and Nephthys: Key for the Eternity of “Qurna Queen”.

Posted on 28/10/2020 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

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...

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Isis and Nephthys Separated after Death.

Posted on 20/10/2020 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

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...

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Hair and Movement in the Post-Amarna Period.

Posted on 27/06/2020 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

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 ...

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The Egyptian Coffin of Iineferty and Her Two Daughters.

Posted on 18/03/2020 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

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...

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The Ancient Egyptian Funerary Rite of Theban Tomb TT175.

Posted on 21/01/2020 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

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 ...

Senet board. Arizona State Museum (ASM 12496)
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The Senet Game: Three Steps to Eternity.

Posted on 18/12/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

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...

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Funerary Mask of Artemidora: Solar and Osirian Resurrection.

Posted on 21/08/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

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...

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The two Mourners in the funerary Mask of Artemidora.

Posted on 19/08/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 1 Comment

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...

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Osiris at both sides of Artemidora.

Posted on 02/04/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 1 Comment

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...

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Isis and Nephthys on the feet of Artemidora.

Posted on 26/03/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 1 Comment

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...

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Isis and Nephthys on the Mummy of Artemidora

Posted on 21/03/2019 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

Looking carefully at the decoration on the mummy of Artemidora we can discover the intentions of the artist.

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Nefertiti granted the resurrection of Akhenaten. Part I

Posted on 04/09/2017 by mrvaldesogo / 3 Comments

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...

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SUPERPOSITION IN ANCIENT EGYPT. ISIS AND NEPHTHYS OVERLAPED.

Posted on 22/02/2016 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

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. ...

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In Ancient Egypt were Isis and Nephthys Essential in Cartonnages.

Posted on 23/04/2015 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

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...

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In Ancient Egypt Isis and Nephthys became Midwifes of Nut.

Posted on 02/03/2015 by mrvaldesogo / 1 Comment

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...

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Isis and Nephthys rising Osiris-Re in the XX Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

Posted on 16/02/2015 by mrvaldesogo / 1 Comment

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...

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Isis and Nephthys in Ancient Egyptian Solar Iconography.

Posted on 09/02/2015 by mrvaldesogo / 3 Comments

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...

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A challenge in the Art of Ancient Egypt: Osirian-Solar Iconography.

Posted on 19/01/2015 by mrvaldesogo / 0 Comment

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...

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Nephthys in Ancient Egypt, Assitant of Isis.

Posted on 19/11/2014 by mrvaldesogo / 2 Comments

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 ...

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Had in Ancient Egypt the Goddess Nephthys a Lower Status?

Posted on 05/11/2014 by mrvaldesogo / 2 Comments

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...

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