Votive Menit Counterweight with Images of the Goddess Hathor and the Sacred Cow in a Papyrus Boat
Small Pitcher with an Ibex Head and Neck as an Handle
Egyptian alabaster jug
Figure of an Ibex, perhaps from a Perfume Flask
I captured this in 2008, and noted I'd missed something interesting at far right...
So in 2009 I went back and got it:
(Do Click to see larger)
I don't have info for the two pieces at far left, but I do have, in order left to right:
Tube for Eye Paint (Kohl) in the Shape of a Papyrus Column
Dynasty 18, reigns of Thutmose IV to Amenhotep III (ca. 1400-1352 BCE)
Dark blue glass with dragged patterns, lines and edging in green and yellow.
(MMA 26.7.1183)
Bronze, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (ca.1390-1352 BCE)
Cupreous alloy H. 16 cm (6 5/16 in); w. 5 cm (1 15/16 in)
Rogers Fund, 1951 (51.157.2)
Bronze, Dynasty 18, probably reign of Amenhotep III (ca.1390-1352 BCE)
Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926 (26.7.838)
Dynasty 18, reigns of Thutmose IV to Amenhotep III (ca. 1400-1352 BCE)
Rogers Fund, 1944 (44.4.77)
Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (ca.1390-1352 BCE)
Mottled, semitranslucent quartz; two vertical holes in bottom, two horizontal holes in front and rear
Purchase, Vaughn Foundation Gift, by exchange, 1980 (1980.2)
Fragment of a Vase Decorated with an Ibex among Plants
Faience, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (ca.1390-1352 BCE)
From the king's palace at Malqatta
Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926 (26.7.954)
Petrie, in his _Six Temples at Thebes_, shares an illustration of a similar ibex, also likely to be from Amunhotep III's reign: |
Petrie found the ground at Amunhotep II's temple was levelled by filling it in with broken pottery. Because the columns there were built by Amunhotep III, he figured the infill also belonged to Amunhotep III. The Brooklyn museum has a kohl tube (container for cosmetic paint), from Amunhotep III's reign: |
Kohl Tube Inscribed for Amunhotep III and Queen Tiye |
The foreleg has a role in Egyptian mythology:
"In the stars of the Great Bear the Egyptians saw an adze (mshtyu) or a fore-leg (hps)"
(Text TeVelde, Illustration Ann Macy Roth)
(There's more on the adze HERE)