Title: statuette of Nefertem
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visu
Description: Statuette of Nefertem, seated on a throne. His arms are bent, with his right palm flat against his thigh and his left hand clenched slightly. He wears a short pleated shendyt kilt from his navel to his knees and a tripartite wig. He has a plaited beard and wears a headdress of lotus flowers, made of copper alloy.
There are two cartouches between two figures, on the front face of the base. The base is also decorated on the other three faces, with a repeated pattern of an a
Title: statuette of Amenophis III
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for
Description: Incomplete statuette of the king Amenophis III, with most of the head and limbs missing. He is standing with his left foot to the front and his arms pendent. He has a beard and wears a wesekh collar around his neck and an armlet of three bands around his left upper arm. The king's name is inscribed on the middle of the belt with a panther's head is below, over a short pleated shendyt kilt and apron.
There is one column of hieroglyphs facing to the right on the right hand
Title: statuette of an unidentified man
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Cent
Description: Upper part of a statuette of a man walking with left foot to the front. His arms are pendent with the palms of his hands flat on the thighs. He wears a long kilt wrapped around his waist and tied at the front. He wears a tripartite wig.
Underneath this part of the statuette is a hole to join it to the lower part.
Description Source: Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 64
Title: head of jackal
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Description: Right profile of the head of a jackal, made of obsidian. Simple markings to delineate the mouth are incised into the obsidian and the eye is inlaid. There are markings which suggest the ear may also have been inlaid.
Title: gold amulet of Taweret
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Vis
Description: Gold pendant amulet in the form of the goddess Taweret in profile. It would have been worn by a woman for protection during childbirth.
At the top of the amulet, there is a small loop for suspension.
The amulet was made by pouring molten gold into an open terracotta mould.
Description Source: Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 84
Title: hand-shaped clapper
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual
Description: One of a pair of Egyptian clappers carved from ivory, in the form of a left hand and forearm. Two incised lines on the wrist on the front of the clapper represent a bracelet. The fingers and thumb are elongated with a depression between and the nails are carved. The clapper is curved and has a hole drilled at one end, to be attached to the other clapper (now missing). The reverse is undecorated, with a hollow area at one end and scratches on the surface.
It has been broke
Title: statuette of servant girl, carrying an unguent jar
VADS Collection: Artwor
Description: Cosmetic container in the form of a finely carved boxwood statuette of a naked servant girl walking and carrying a large jar on her left hip. The statuette stands on a rectangular wooden pedestal. Her head is shaved except for one lock of hair painted on the right side of the head. The right ear is missing and there is a small circular hole on both sides of the head. There is an ivory mushroom-shaped stud in the left ear lobe. The face is finely carved and painted using blac
Title: wooden jar containing honey
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre fo
Description: Wooden jar carved in the style of a glass or stone cosmetic jar. It has a small base, a globular shouldered body and a wide conical neck that splays out to form a rim. There are two vertical loop handles from the top of the shoulder.
Description Source: Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 182
Title: carnelian bead necklace
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Vi
Description: Carnelian necklace consisting of 61 beads carved in the shape of poppy-heads or cornflowers and 120 spherical beads. The necklace has been restrung.
Title: pressure-flaked flint knife blade
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Cen
Description: Light brown pressure-flaked flint knife blade. One face of the knife blade is heavily worked and the underside is completely smooth except for being worked only along the edge to form a sharp, finely denticulated convex knife edge.
Title: mummy label inscribed on one side
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Cen
Description: Wooden mummy label with two holes to attach the label to the mummy after the embalming process for identification during transportation and in the afterlife. An inscription is incised and written in black ink on one side. The reverse of the label is blank.
Title: carnelian amulet
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Ar
Description: Rectangular amulet carved from carnelian with the prenomen of Amenophis III incised in sunk relief on the front. On the reverse is a diagrammatic representation of the red crown of Lower Egypt with a circular hieroglyph, which could be an inscription reading 'temple of Re'. Both inscriptions are surrounded by a border.
The amulet is pierced along its length.
Description Source: Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castl
Title: faience cosmetic jar in the form of a hedgehog
VADS Collection: Artworld:
Description: Small faience jar to hold scented oil or perfume, in the style of the Greek aryballos. Formed in the shape of a hedgehog, with a rounded body, a criss-cross pattern covering the body to represent spines and a large ruff of spines framing the face. On the top of the hedgehog's back is a short cylindrical neck with circular hole and a square handle.
The jar would have been covered with a turquoise glaze, traces of which still remain.
Description Source: Birch, S.
Title: wooden stick shabti
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Vi
Description: Wooden 'stick' shabti. Crudely carved in the form of a man with rough representations of head, arms and feet. Facial features are roughly carved with eyes and eyebrows painted on in black. There is an inscription in hieratic on the front and sides of the body in black ink.
Title: cippus amulet of Horus-the-child
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Cent
Description: Cippus amulet of Horus-the-child with the sidelock of youth, standing naked on two crocodiles, holding snakes in both hands and with other harmful creatures by his sides. Above his head is the head of the dwarf-god Bes and he is flanked by two gods (one of which is probably Re-Harakhty). The amulet bears spells for protection against bites and stings from creatures such as the crocodiles, scorpions and snakes depicted; on the front of the amulet are two rows of hieroglyphs f
Title: limestone relief of soldiers
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre f
Description: Part of a painted limestone relief of a procession of Nubian soldiers running by the river, in six large fragments cemented together.
There is a band of wavy lines bearing traces of blue paint representing water across the top of the relief. Below are 11 soldiers shown from the head to the waist, each wearing a short curly wig and a kilt, carrying weapons (such as scimitars, spears and axes), shields and standards. The flesh of the soldiers is painted red. There is a row
Title: funerary stela
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Description: Round-topped funerary stela dedicated to Ptah-Sokar-Osiris for ?Nesy-em-netjer-aaptah and to Osiris for ?Aaptah.
In the lunette are two recumbent jackals crouching on shrines, below which are eight rows of hieroglyphs, facing to the right.
There are traces of blue paint on the hieroglyphs.
Description Source: Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 272
Title: rectangular funerary stela
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for
Description: Rectangular funerary stela.
Below the cavetto cornice is a central vertical column with the hotep-di-nesw offering formula, and two rows of text on either side above representations of a seated male Kheper-ha-?seru left and his mother Hor-hut-sat right, both kneeling before offering tables. Below both scenes are six rows of text, listing names of family members. There is a raised relief 'frame' around the text and representations, with a blank space at the bottom. There a
Title: wooden mirror handle
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visua
Description: Wooden handle into which a polished bronze mirror disc fitted. Carved in the shape of a papyrus column terminating in the head of the god Bes.
Description Source: Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 103
Title: funerary mask
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts<
Description: Cartonnage funerary mask, designed to cover the head and shoulders of a mummified body.
The deceased is depicted wearing a tripartite wig and broad collar, gilded and painted in red, blue and black. The face appears to be of smaller proportions to the rest of the mask and is covered in gold foil. The eyes and eyebrows are painted in black and white paint.
There is evidence of a repair and a small section is missing on the lower front of the mask. A larger section at th
