Title: statuette of Duamutef, Son of Horus
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury C
Description: Painted wooden funerary statuette of the jackal-headed Duamutef, one of four Sons of Horus.
Duamutef is depicted mummiform and wears a blue and yellow striped nemes headdress and wesekh collar. The jackal-head is painted black with facial features in yellow. The front of the body is brightly painted in blue, green, white and yellow on a red background. The falcon-head of Re-Horakhty crowned with a solar disc and uraeus is depicted on both shoulders. Below is a multicolour
Title: statuette of Imset, Son of Horus
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Cent
Description: Painted and gilded wooden funerary statuette of the human-headed Imset, one of four Sons of Horus.
Imset is depicted mummiform and wears a tripartite wig and wesekh collar. The face is gilded with facial features painted in black and white. The ears are large and naturalistic. The front of the body is brightly painted in blue, green, white and yellow on a red background. The falcon-head of Re-Horakhty crowned with a solar disc and uraeus is depicted on both shoulders. Bel
Title: two fingers amulet
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual
Description: Obsidian two fingers amulet, representing the index and middle fingers Simple lines have been incised into the surface to resemble nails and knuckles.
Description Source: Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 223
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: cippus amulet of Bes
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visua
Description: Pale green faience cippus amulet of Horus with the face of Bes. He is depicted as a naked male, standing full frontal, with one pair of arms outstretched with the wings of a falcon below. He holds papyrus stems in both hands. The other pair of arms are at the sides of his body. In the left hand he holds a was sceptre and in the right hand he holds the sa, the symbol meaning 'protection'. He stands on a snake that encircles a group of harmful animals including a crocodile, sc
Title: Taweret amulet
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Description: Amulet of the goddess Taweret standing on a rectangular base with her arms at her sides and left foot advanced. Taweret is depicted as a female hippopotamus with the tail of a crocodile, the arms and legs of a lion and the breasts of a woman. The amulet is damaged on the right arm and head. There is evidence to suggest that there was originally a crown attached on top of the head. There are traces of a blue-green glaze on the nemes headdress.
Title: amulet depicting three gods
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre fo
Description: Amulet depicting the triad of Isis, Osiris and Horus, cast in copper alloy. Osiris stands between Isis and Horus and is depicted as a mummiform man wearing a wesekh collar, false beard and atef-crown with uraeus and holding the crook and flail across his chest. To his right stands his sister-wife, Isis, wearing the cow-horn crown with sun disc, tripartite wig and long dress. To his right stands his son, Horus, depicted as a falcon-headed man wearing the double crown, tripart
Title: amulet of Neith
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art
Description: Pale green faience amulet of the goddess Neith, one of the four protectors of the dead. She wears the red crown of Lower Egypt and suckles two crocodiles while walking, holding their tails with her arms by her sides. The crocodiles symbolise Sobek, the son of Neith.
The amulet has a back pillar and stands on a small rectangular base. There is no evidence of a means of suspension.
The amulet has been repaired.
Title: statue of Paser
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art
Description: Black granite statue of Paser kneeling, on a rounded plinth. Paser wears a tripartite wig and false beard and a long wrap-around kilt from chest to ankles, that appears to have straps that are tied at the back of the neck. There is an inscription on both his right and left upper arms. There is one horizontal row of hieroglyphs facing to the right along the top of the kilt and three perpendicular lines of hieroglyphs in dedication to Ptah down the front. Both arms are bent to
Title: bronze cat coffin
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual A
Description: Bronze alloy statue of a cat, symbolic of the goddess Bastet, made using the lost-wax method. The cat is sitting upright and wears a collar that is visible only from the left and back. There are facial features and markings on the ears and body; the eyes would have been inlaid. The statue is hollow and would have been used as a coffin for a mummified cat. It is heavily corroded and the tail is missing.
Description Source: Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collectio
Title: opaque glass flask
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual
Description: Opaque blue core-formed glass flask. The flask has a globular shouldered body and narrow neck with applied base and handle. The decoration consists of a broad band of opaque white yellow and pale blue glass in a feathered pattern on the dark blue background around the main body of the flask and narrower band of the same pattern around the neck. The rim is shaped to form a spout and there is a twisted band of black and white glass around the rim. The handle has parallel strip
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 pendant amulet of Heh
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for
Description: Gold pendant amulet in the form of the god Heh in profile, kneeling and holding a palm rib (the hieroglyph symbolising 'year') in each hand. The amulet wishes the wearer an eternity in the Underworld.
There is a small loop for suspension on the reverse.
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
Title: blue-green scarab
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for Visual A
Description: Scarab made of blue-green glazed steatite inlaid with red jasper and blue faience; the inlay of the right wing is missing. On the underside of the scarab there is a scene in sunk relief, depicting a king before the god Amun-Re with the udjat-eye above.
Description Source: Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 106
Title: naturalistic funerary scarab
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre f
Description: Pale turquoise faience naturalistic funerary scarab with detailed upper and undersides. There is a central loop on the underside to attach to mummy bandages.
Title: naturalistic funerary scarab
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre f
Description: Pale turquoise faience naturalistic funerary scarab with detailed upper and undersides. There is a central loop on the underside to attach to mummy bandages.
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: ivory panel of a game box
VADS Collection: Artworld: Sainsbury Centre for
Description: Ivory panel of a game box engraved with a scene showing a deceased man, Ahmose, seated on a high-backed lion-legged chair. He has a beard and wears a tripartite wig and a long overskirt worn over a short kilt. He holds a folded napkin in his left hand which is held to his chest as a symbol of authority; his right hand is held palm down above his thigh. In front of him is an offering table laden with food and under the table are two cones, one entwined with a lotus flower and
