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: funerary stela of Iba-ankhu and Seneb
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury
Description: Round-topped funerary stela.
At the top of the stela are five rows of text, hotep-di-nesw offering formula to Anubis for Iba-ankhu and his brother, the Scribe of the Residence of the Great House Seneb. Both men are represented on sitting on either side of a laden offering table, holding a flail in one hand and a double sash in the other. Below the scene are six rows of hieroglyphs on either side of a second offering table, listing the names of their relatives.
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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: funerary stela of Memu, Overseer of Boats
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sains
Description: Round-topped funerary stela.
The lunette has two udjat-eyes and two recumbent jackals. Below the lunette are four rows of hieroglyphs facing to the right, a hotep-di-nesw offering formula to Osiris and Wepwawet for Memu, the Overseer of Boats and his wife Ipepi. Below is a representation of Memu sitting on a bull-legged chair before an offering table and Ipepi kneeling on a mat before another offering table. To the right of the scene there is one column of hieroglyphs fac
Title: funerary stela of Ibi
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visu
Description: Round-topped funerary stela, made for Ibi by his brother Ibi, the elder of the portal.
There is a lunette with two udjat-eyes above two water ripples with a shen-symbol between. Inscribed in five rows of hieroglyphs facing to the right is a hotep-di-nesw offering formula for the retainer Ibi, son of Iret. Below the text is a representation of the deceased seated before an offering table, sniffing a lotus.
The stela is precisely incised and the back is smoothed.
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Title: lapis-lazuli papyrus sceptre amulet
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury C
Description: Amulet representing a wadj or papyrus sceptre, with three horizontal bands carved around the neck and a ring for suspension near the throat. Carved from lapis lazuli.
Description Source: Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 228
Andrews, C. 1990. Ancient Egyptian Jewellery. London: British Museum Publications, p. 81-82
Title: green jasper amulet
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual
Description: Oval amulet carved from green jasper with two lizards in relief on one side and a ceremonial naos-shaped sistrum flanked by 2 seated cats on the other. Both the sistrum and the cat are symbolic of the goddess Hathor.
The amulet is pierced along its length.
Description Source: Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 119-120
Title: bead with name of Queen Tiye
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre f
Description: Blue faience bead with an inlaid inscription in pale green, bearing the name of queen Tiye.
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: bronze disc of a mirror
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Vi
Description: Bronze disc with a spike to fit into a handle to form a hand-mirror.
Description Source: Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 103
Title: sole of a sandal
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Ar
Description: Sandal made by binding parallel bundles of rushes together with strips to form a flat surface and then edged to finish the sole. A circular hole can be seen to have been pushed between the fibres in order to secure the thong between the toes.
The sandal is in poor condition and is very fragile.
Title: sole of a sandal
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Ar
Description: Sandal made by binding parallel bundles of rushes together with strips to form a flat surface and then edged to finish the sole. A circular hole can be seen to have been pushed between the fibres in order to secure the thong between the toes.
The sandal is in poor condition and is very fragile.
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
Title: limestone stela of Anubis leading dead man
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sain
Description: Round-topped stela with lunette and main scene. Very crude carved relief with traces of red paint on the flesh of the two men and on the wings of the sun-disk.
There is a winged sun-disk across the top of the lunette, with two pendant uraei. Below are two seated dogs/jackals facing each other with a cross/ankh between them. The head of the jackal on the right hand side is broken off.
The main scene depicts Osiris seated on a block throne to the left hand side of the sc
Title: fishtail lance head
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual
Description: Light brown pressure-flaked fishtail lance blade. Both sides of the lance blade are heavily worked to form sharp, denticulated edges.
The fishtail section of the blade is incomplete and has been broken and repaired.
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: wooden funerary stela of Tasameni
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Cen
Description: Plastered and painted wooden round-topped stela.
There is a curved sky-symbol across the top of the lunette, below which is a winged sun disk with two pendulous uraei and an ankh-symbol between. On the upper register is a vignette surrounded on three sides by triglyph border with heker-frieze above. The scene depicts Thoth leading the deceased (the lady Tasameni), wearing a long wig and tight red dress with fringe, to Osiris. Osiris is depicted as a mummiform man, wearing
Title: limestone canopic jar lid
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for
Description: Limestone canopic jar lid in the shape of a human head. The man is depicted with large ears, typical of the 18th dynasty. The eyes and eyebrows are painted in black paint.
Title: terracotta coffin lid
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visu
Description: Section of a terracotta coffin lid depicting a man's face, with eyes closed. The reverse has been left unworked.
There is some damage to the eyebrows, nose and lower section of the face.
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.
