Catalogue: Fifth Dynasty
100. Head of King Userkaf Fifth Dynasty, reign of Userkaf Red granite H. 75 cm (29 5/8 in.) Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 52501 This imposing head of Userkaf, first king […]
Culturas
Catalogue: Fourth Dynasty
21. Colossal Head Late Third or early Fourth Dynasty Red granite H. 54.3 cm (2103/8 in.); w. 29 cm (11 1/2 in.) Brooklyn Museum of Art, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund […]
Catalogue: Third Dynasty
1. Wall Decoration from the Funerary Apartments of King Djoser. Third Dynasty, reign of Djoser Blue-green Egyptian faience H. 113 cm (44 1/2 in); w. 73.7 cm (29 in) The […]
Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Egyptian Archaeologists
In Egypt today it is generally believed that most of the archaeological discoveries that have been made in the country were achieved by foreign expeditions. Very little has been written […]
Excavating the old kingdom. The Giza Necropolis and Other Mastaba Fields
The Giza necropolis, doubtless the most famous archaeological site in the world, has experienced two golden ages. The first took place in the Fourth Dynasty, when the pharaoh Khufu (Cheops) […]
Excavating the old kingdom. From Khafre's Valley Temple to Governor's City at Balat
Before the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette started to clear the Serapeum at Saqqara in the balmy autumn of 1850; before Howard Vyse and John Shae Perring joined forces to study […]
Stone vessels. Luxury Items with Manifold Implications
Stone vessels of the Old Kingdom are luxury items that owe their beauty to skilled craftsmanship and an exquisite sense of refinement in design and decoration. The art of stone-vessel […]
Furniture of the Old Kingdom
Carpentry and furniture manufacture were among the earliest trades plied in ancient Egypt, and by the Old Kingdom woodworking had become a well-developed craft practiced by accomplished artisans. The elegant […]
The human image in Old Kingdom nonroyal reliefs
When Van Eyck or Titian painted the portrait of a bourgeois or grandee of his day, several factors entered into the composition of the picture: the painter's own personality, the […]
Royal reliefs
By the beginning of the Middle Kingdom the royal temples of the Pyramid Age had already started to fall into decay.1 What remained was often dismantled under the Ramesside kings […]