Title: upper section of steatite shabti
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Cent
Description: Upper body of a finely carved steatite shabti. The shabti has arms crossed over the chest with a broad hoe in the left hand, a narrow hoe in the right hand and a bracelet worn on the left wrist. He wears a beard, duplex wig and a wesekh collar over a pleated tunic with pleated sleeves. On the back of the shabti is a trapezoid bag/basket, slung over the left shoulder.
The lower part of the shabti is missing. There is a round hole bored into the underside of the piece, pres
Title: wooden shabti of Huy
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visua
Description: Finely carved wooden shabti of Huy. The shabti is mummiform in shape with arms crossed over the chest and holding a hoe in each hand, arms not visible. He wears a striated tripartite wig and wesekh collar. Between his hands is a scarab beetle pectoral, suspended from his neck by straps. The eyes and eyebrows are emphasised using black and white paint and the lips are painted red. There is an incised inscription in one column of hieroglyphs down the front of the legs and eigh
Title: amphora
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Description: Clay shouldered amphora with the lower body tapering to form a point. The amphora would originally have had two loop handles applied vertically to the shoulder; one handle has broken off and is missing. The rim is slightly flared and is broken.
Title: funerary stela of Amenemhat
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre fo
Description: Round-topped funerary stela in two registers, carved in fairly crude raised relief with incised inscriptions.
In the upper register is a scene depicting a man, Amenemhat, and his wife Tutemhotep seated at the left hand side of the stela. Amenemhat wears a wesekh collar and long kilt and sniffs a lotus flower, held in his left hand. Tutemhotep wears a wesekh collar and long sheath dress. On the right hand side of the stela stands a man, offering to the couple. There are se
Title: painted false door stela
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for V
Description: Limestone false door, with architectural features carved in relief and details painted in red and black.
Painted cavetto cornice with a second cavetto cornice within a raised frame. Within the upper section of the frame is a relief-carved false door with cavetto cornice, decorated with a check design painted in black, supported on relief-carved pillars. Painted in the central niche of the false door is an ibis, wearing the composite crown and standing on a neb-symbol with
Title: fragment of a tomb relief of Pepy
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Cen
Description: Fragment of a wall painting from an unidentified tomb.
Pepy stands facing to the left holding a rod in his right hand and a kherep-sceptre in his left. He wears a short kilt, broad collar and short wig and bracelets on both wrists.
The lower sections of two columns of hieroglyphs are above his head, carved in sunk relief and painted blue. Pepy's jewellery is painted blue and his skin red. There is a broad red band under the baseline.
Title: commemorative stela of a king smiting his enemies
VADS Collection: Artworl
Description: Upper section of a round-topped stela showing a king smiting with a scimitar, held high in his left hand. He wears the double crown and uraeus with a ?tail attached to the back of the crown. The inscription above the king gives his Horus name and the two cartouches to the left of the king contain the prenomen and the nomen.
The king depicted on the stela is possibly Merenptah.
Title: funerary stela in adoration to Osiris
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury
Description: Round-topped stela with three registers.
In the upper register is a scene depicting the god Wepwawet as a jackal-headed man with a was-sceptre in his left hand. Osiris is seated on a block throne before an elaborate offering table; he is depicted mummiform, wearing the atef-crown and holding a was-sceptre. Isis stands behind Osiris wearing a modius and uraeus on her head, holding an ankh-symbol in her left hand and her right hand raised to Osiris.
In the middle registe
Title: funerary stela of Menty-em-hat
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre
Description: Round-topped funerary stela.
In the lunette is the winged sun-disk with 2 uraei. Below are two recumbent jackals facing each other, on shrines. Between the two jackals is a shen-symbol with 3 water ripples below, all set on a sky-symbol.
The upper register shows Osiris seated on a block throne on a pedestal. Osiris is depicted mummiform, wearing the atef-crown and holding a heqa-sceptre and flail. Isis stands behind on a small pedestal with her right hand raised to pro
Title: funerary stela of Dedu
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Vis
Description: Finely carved round-topped funerary stela of Dedu.
In the lunette is the date of the burial of the deceased, year 13 of the reign of Senwosret I. Below are 12 rows of inscription incised at the top of the stela. Part of the inscription includes the hotep-di-nesw offering formula invoking Osiris, Wepwawet, Heqet, Khnum and all the gods in Abydos on behalf of the Overseer of the Estate, Dedu. Other formulae are the call to the living and the festivals of Abydos including th
Title: offering table
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Description: Rectangular offering table carved in raised relief with a water channel (possibly stained through use) around the perimeter, meeting in a spout at the front. Offerings are represented in the central panel, which has a main design of two hes-jars, two hollowed out cartouches/shen-hieroglyphs and two lotus flowers, both curving over and flanked by two and two lotus buds. Above this is a raised line on which stand smaller objects including a water pot, vases and circular cakes.
Title: funerary stela of Amunhotep
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre fo
Description: Round-topped funerary stela, with two registers.
The upper register depicts mummiform Osiris, wearing the white crown and holding the crook, flail and was-sceptre, standing on a pedestal before an ewer on an offering table. Amenhotep, the scribe of god's wife, and his son the 'Troop Captain' Amenemhat (called Haty) stand before Osiris offering incense, water and flowers. Both men are wearing bag wigs and long transparent garments over shendyt kilts. There are six columns
Title: funerary stela of Py
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visua
Description: Triangular funerary stela with flat apex.
At the top of the stela is a single-winged sun-disk with two ankh-symbols below. Below are three columns of inscription on left hand side and three columns on the right hand side.
Below the inscription is a depiction of Anubis seated on a block throne on a pedestal, on the left hand side of the stela. Anubis is seated before an offering table, laden with bread, vegetables and flowers and holds an ankh-symbol in his right hand a
Title: funerary stela of XXX
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visu
Description: Round-topped stela with two scenes and eight lines of inscription, the hotep-di-nesw, below. The lunette contains a winged sun-disk below a curved sky-symbol. There is a was-sceptre down both sides of the stela, supporting the sky-symbol. The first register depicts Osiris, Re-Harakhty and Isis standing on the left hand side facing to the right, with an offering table in front of Osiris and a couple facing them adoring. A small figure of Penamun is standing behind Isis, his a
Title: lintel of false door of Khafre
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre
Description: Limestone lintel of a false door with incised inscription in one row of hieroglyphs facing to the right.
Title: ivory female statuette
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Vis
Description: Naked female statuette carved from one piece of ivory. The woman has a narrow waist and broad hips and stands with hunched shoulders, her arms held at her sides and legs together. The facial features of the statuette are simple whereas the features of the body are more finely carved. The pubic area is exaggerated and highlighted by punctate decoration. The eyes, eyebrows and pubic triangle have been emphasised with black pigment.
The figure is broken; the legs have been r
Title: incense stand
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts<
Description: Bronze trumpet-shaped incense stand dating from the Late Period to Ptolemaic Period. The stem was made from a sheet of metal folded over and the bell and rim were added separately. On the front of the bell of the trumpet is an incised inscription in two columns of hieroglyphs facing to the right. Part of the rim is missing and the surface is slightly pitting, with signs of erosion.
Description Source: K.M. Exell
Title: beer jar
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Description: Tall jar with a slender body, made from marl clay. The jar is largely intact except for a piece missing from the rim; it has also been mended around the neck.
