#HedgehogWeek 🦔:
All hedgehogs are capable of volvation aka conglobation - aka, they can roll up into an armored ball in defense. 🙂
Hedghog
Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, c. 1550–1450 BCE
Faience, diameter 5.8cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: https://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544054
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The goddess Sekhmet with a lion’s head.
Sekhmet was a sun and war goddess, the opposite of Bastet, the cat goddess.
Granite.
The temple of Mut in Luxor.
New Kingdom, 1403-1365 BC
National Museum of Denmark, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities
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A satirical papyrus showing a lady mouse being served wine by a cat while another cat dresses her hair, a third cares for her baby, and a fourth fans her. The mice have hilarious huge, round ears.
Where: Egyptian Museum Cairo
When: New Kingdom
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Pyramidion of Amenhotep (Huy)
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II, ca. 1279-1213 BC.
From Saqqara necropolis.
Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. TR 7-114-24-1
True pyramids (at least the larger ones), as opposed to step pyramids in Egypt were topped by a special stone called a pyramidion, or sometimes a capstone, which was itself a miniature pyramid. It brought the pyramid structure to a point at the same angle and the same proportions as the main body.
The ancient Egyptian word for the pyramidion, which could also sit atop the apex of an obelisk, was ben-benet, named for the sacred Benben stone kept in the temple of Heliopolis, the oldest center of the sun cult in Egypt. During the Old Kingdom, they were usually made of diorite, granite or a very fine limestone which was then covered in gold or electrum.
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A secret internal ‘NYTimes’ memo reveals the paper’s anti-Palestinian bias is even worse than we thought
The shocking revelation of the New York Times's offensive internal style guide on language it will not permit in its Palestine reporting should prompt a broad examination of the paper's longtime bias.
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Kudos to the anonymous New York Times staffers who leaked the paper’s offensive internal guide about the language it won’t permit in its reports on Israel/Palestine, and more kudos to The Intercept for publishing it. The shocking revelation should prompt an even broader examination of the biased language that has long been routine in the Times and across all U.S. media.
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AN EGYPTIAN GESSO-PAINTED WOOD FUNERARY MODEL OF A BOAT
MIDDLE KINGDOM, 11TH-12TH DYNASTY, 2087-1759 B.C.
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Two Rings with Lotus Flowers
Egyptian, 1400-1200 BCE (New Kingdom)
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oh hello! i made a little uquiz assigning you a historical period (and maybe i call you gay)
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Ancient Egyptian heart amulet (gold and green schist) of one Manhata. Artist unknown; ca. 1479-1425 BCE (reign of Thutmose III, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom). From the Tomb of the Three Foreign Wives of Thutmose III at Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Thebes; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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More #WorldFrogDay accessories: 🐸💍
Two carnelian frog rings from New Kingdom Egypt, with a stylized Hathor head incised on bottom of each. (In later dynasties, Hathor assumed Heqet's role as a goddess of fertility and childbirth.)
1. Finger Ring with Frog
Egyptian, c. 1550-1295 BCE (New Kingdom, 18th dynasty)
gold, carnelian
H: 15/16 x W: 13/16 x D: 1/4 in. (2.4 x 2 x 0.6 cm); Bezel H: 1/4 x W: 3/8 x D: 1/4 in. (0.6 x 0.9 x 0.6 cm); Inner Diam: 7/16 in. (1.05 cm)
"A tiny carnelian frog with incised details serves as a swiveling bezel for a typical Egyptian seal ring. Carved into the base is a stylized head of a goddess, possibly Hathor."
The Walters Art Museum
2. Finger Ring with a Frog
Egyptian, 1550-1279 BCE (New Kingdom, 18th-early 19th dynasty)
carnelian, gold lining
H: 15/16 x W: 13/16 x D: 1/4 in. (2.4 x 2 x 0.7 cm); Bezel W: 1/16 in. (0.17 cm); Inner Diam.: 5/16 in. (0.83 cm); Outer Diam.: 1/2 in. (1.34 cm)
"This finger ring displays the small figure of a frog squatting on top of the bezel. The frog is well carved with incised details. The stylized head of Hathor is incised on the bottom of the bezel. The gold lining is probably modern. The image of a frog symbolizes fecundity and fertility, and rings with frog figures were worn by women particularly during the New Kingdom."
The Walters Art Museum
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Water Bottle from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache. New Kingdom, ca. 1336–1327 B.C.
(via Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Bangle of Tutankhamen
Gold and jewels inlay Udjat Eye
18th Dynasty, New Kingdom
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I am once again thinking about the reluctant ruler whose arc justly and correctly includes assuming the throne and taking responsibility for the people set before them
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~ Bundle of Hair Extensions.
Date: ca. 2114-1502 B.C.
Period: Old Kingdom-early New Kingdom; 16th-18th Dynasty
Medium: Human hair, linen
▪︎ From the source: These hair extensions would have been placed in a tomb for use in the afterlife. In this world, Egyptians used extensions to make their wigs or natural hair thicker and more attractive, just as people do today. The reliefs in this case show hairdressers adding extensions like these to the hair or wig of Queen Neferu.
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