Tuesday, March 30, 2010
"two splendid gold-and-faience headdresses, one decorated with antelope heads of great vivacity; three broad collars fashioned in gold; seven gold bracelets, including one with small reclining cats carved in feldspar; eight rings; six large gold pectorals in the form of vultures and hawks; thirty solid gold toe-stalls; three solid-gold sandals; dozens of gold rings; heart scarabs; amulets; alabaster jars banded in gold (and made for cold cream!); two gold-handled silver mirrors of exceptional beauty; a half-dozen cups and small jugs in gold; and vessels and goblets in silver, amethyst, serpentine and feldspar." (Pages 128-129) I remember seeing SOME of those treasures when I was at the Met museum, and included a sampling of them in my photo gallery. Seven rings, two pectorals and a belt with fishes are among them. I remembered the "two gold-handled silver mirrors of exceptional beauty". But I couldn't recall any gold jugs, nor a bracelet with 'reclining cats', nor a headress with antelope heads. I checked my camera raw photo files. No, I'd sent up all that I'd photographed. I checked Flicker photos. Hans Ollermann gives an overview of the treasures. I'd missed the jeweled wig, the bracelets, a lovely silver jug, I'd missed quite a lot. But returning to my own photo files I found a couple of pieces I'd not included in my own gallery. This cute monkey is irresistable:
Cosmetic Vessel in the Shape of a Squatting Monkey Dynasty 13-17 (ca. 1800-1550 BCE), From Girga (near Abydos) Anhydrite (blue marble), eyes originally inlaid with copper Rogers Fund, 1910 (10.176.54a,b)
He's there, now. I have also a huge offering table, possibly found in the room with all the reliefs of Amenemhat, so it is likely from the 12th Dynasty.
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