Wadjet Eye Amulet
Third Intermediate Period, ca. 1070-664 BC.
Made of Egyptian faience and aragonite.
Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 26.7.1032
Wadjet eye amulets were among the most popular amulets of ancient Egypt. The wadjet eye represents the healed eye of the god Horus and embodies healing power as well as regeneration and protection in general.
This faience eye here is an intriguing combination of the regular wadjet eye with a wing, two uraei, and a lion. This combination alludes to various ancient Egyptian stories that involve the eye of the sun-god Re.
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Something must be wrong with me, I haven't talked about the beadnet dress in forever.
It consists of seven thousand faience beads in blue green and blue to imitate turquoise and lapis lazuli. It is 4600 years old (the threading is modern, but the beads were found in their original pattern so this reconstruction is as accurate as it can be). It is one of the most gorgeous garments in existence and was owned by a woman who was a contemporary of king Khufu.
The dress was found in her tomb in Giza, known as Tomb G 7440 Z, and it's the earliest known garment of this type.
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Egyptian Lotus-Shaped Chalices, ca. 1290-1070 BC (New Kingdom), part of the Walters Art Museum Collection
The blue lotus is represented in numerous New Kingdom faience chalices. The Egyptian name for these chalices was the same as the word for lotus flower: "seshen."
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Vase in the shape of a duck, Ptolemaic Egypt (c. 3rd-2nd century BCE; crafted in Alexandria), faience wit a polychrome glaze
Currently in the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. accession no. 48.421
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Naos sistrum made of Faience with Hathor’s Face
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ring with figure of seated cat
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1390 BC. Egyptian faience. Now in the Art Institute of Chicago. X80
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Ancient Egyptian faience inlay depicting a falcon with spread wings. Artist unknown; 4th cent. BCE (Late Period or early Ptolemaic). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Funerary figurines
* Shabti of Paankh with inscription on cursive script. Bakerd clay, New Kingdom, 19th dynasty (1292-1190 BCE)
* Two shabtis of Userhat, scribe of Amon. Faience, New Kingdom, 19th-20th dynasty (1292-1076 BCE)
* Turin Egyptian Museum
Turin, June 2023
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#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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An Egyptian faience chalice, 900s-600s BCE. It depicts various agricultural activities; on the top, a man wrangles animals, while on the bottom people navigate the marshlands of Egypt.
{WHF} {Ko-Fi} {Medium}
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Striding Thoth
Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305-30 BC.
Egyptian faience.
Met Museum. 26.7.860
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since it's nighttime here are some ancient egyptian faience star amulets to brighten your dash
one for every hour of the night
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Amulet depicting goddess Sekhmet, Third Intermediate Period, part of the British Museum’s collection
Glazed composition amulet of Sekhmet: represented as a seated woman with maned lion's head moulded in bright blue glazed composition. Her long hair is divided by the shoulders and she wears a full-length dress. Anklets, armlets and bracelets are picked out in a darker blue glaze. She sits on an openwork block throne, decorated on each side with representations of stellar decans in the form of snakes. On her knee, Sekhmet holds a shrine shaped sistrum or rattle and across her chest carries a papyrus scepter whose long stem runs to her ankles. The green sappy papyrus was symbolic of new life and a sceptre in its shape is only found in the hands of goddesses.
The presence of the sistrum, a musical instrument connected with merrymaking, suggests the lion-headed goddess may represent Bastet in her original fearsome form. As an amulet it would have been worn to show particular devotion and to place the wearer under the protection of the great goddess.
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statuette of Nemesis in the form of a female griffin with wings, Roman Egypt (2nd century CE), earthenware and blue faience with yellow faience necklace and black and white glazed eyes
currently in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum (accession no. 53.173)
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Ancient Egyptian ring with a cat and kittens, Faience. XIII-VII centuries. B.C.
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~ Winged Scarab Amulet.
Date: 664 B.C.–332 B.C.
Medium: Faience
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