Is there an Egyptologist in the house? I'm looking for information about the attached glyph. I did a reverse image search and I found indication it is related to the god Ra. Where's a good resource of information for this sort of thing?
Stars played an important role in ancient Egyptian belief. In the Pyramid Texts the soul of the deceased pharaoh ascends to the #celestial realm of the imperishable circumpolar stars.
"He places thee at the head of the spirits, the imperishable stars."
Au #musée des Confluences, j'ai eu la chance de voir travailler la responsable de l'atelier des #moulages : elle réalisait des copies de sécurité d'objets très rares, mais aussi des exemplaires pour des #chercheurs éloignés et pour les médiateurs.
Seul un examen attentif permettait de distinguer la copie de l'original.
Pas de souci avec l'exemplaire de cet homme barbu, copie dédicacée d'une #statue#égyptienne.
For our May meeting (Sunday 12th May, IN PERSON) we explore the fascinating world of Deir el Medina with Suzanne Bojtos.
Deir el Medina was a village in western Thebes that housed the community of workmen who built and decorated the royal tombs in the Valley of Kings. This is our most important source of evidence for towns and villages in Egypt. (1/2)
Archaeologists uncover upper section of colossal statue of Ramses II in Egypt
A collaborative effort between Egyptian and American archaeologists has resulted in the remarkable discovery of the upper section of a colossal statue of Ramses II, also known as Ramesses the Great, in the Minya Governorate of Egypt...
Scarab bracelet of lapis lazuli, set in gold, from previously-unlooted 3,300-year-old tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, excavated by Howard Carter in 1922.
French philologist and orientalist Jean-François Champollion died #OTD in 1832.
He was a founding figure in the field of Egyptology. In 1808, he first began studying the Rosetta stone, working from a copy made by the Abbé de Tersan. Working independently he was able to confirm some of the readings of the demotic previously made by Johan David Åkerblad in 1802, finally identifying the Coptic equivalents of fifteen demotic signs present on the Rosetta stone. via @wikipedia
"I'll say it again: Egyptian art owes all that it has produced that is great, pure & beautiful to no one but itself; &, whatever may displease those scholars who make a religion of firmly believing in the spontaneous generation of the arts in Greece.... Ancient Egypt taught the arts to Greece, and Greece gave them the most sublime development: but without Egypt, Greece would probably not have become the classic land of the fine arts."
Two recent excavations in Egypt have uncovered new terracotta figures of several Egyptian deities, including Isis, Isis-Aphrodite, and Harpocrates, the god of silence.
Italian astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth was born #OTD in 1819.
The expedition to Tenerife with his wife in 1856 established the practice of high altitude observation. Their expedition to Egypt (1865), and the publication of ‘Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid’ was to lead to prizes and controversy. Ultimately Piazzi Smyth’s adherence to his conclusions and arguments over Pyramidology led Piazzi Smyth to resign from the Royal Society in 1874.
🔥 Upcoming video 🔥
Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, and the Book of the Dead
I'm outlining their individual contents and highlighting their differences.
With original quotes to illustrate the individual beliefs reflected in them.
On YouTube this Thursday, December 28, 10 pm CET :-)
I'm working on the "Coptic Wizard's Hoard" and finally think I managed to understand the ritual:
It's not two separate texts as interpreted so far, it's one ritual requiring two invocations: The 1st bestowes the magician with the understanding to perform the 2nd.
Still, have to do more research into the content of the invocations and the Coptic terminology.
Seshat was the Egyptian Goddess of writing, wisdom and knowledge. She was either portrayed as one of the wives of the God Thoth or possibly his daughter. It was believed that there were no temples to her, but she played a very important role as her name means “female scribe”.
She also became identified as the goddess of sciences, accounting, architecture, astronomy, astrology, building, mathematics, and surveying. #egyptology#mythology#folklore
Amongst the objects in the Mallawi Museum are the grave goods of a man called Henu, who was buried at Deir el-Bersha during the First Intermediate Period (around 4000 years ago). These are a relatively recent discovery – they were only excavated in 2007.
The wooden models in my photo are from this tomb. The most impressive one is the wooden boat, with its 5 pairs of oarsmen, a steersman & 3 men standing at the front. The two ends of the boat are nicely decorated & the bottom of the boat is black, perhaps representing bitumen?
To the right is a vignette of brick making. You can see the man at the front is neatly laying out rows of bricks but I’m not sure what the two men behind him are carrying. To the right of this there is a model of beer brewing & to the right of that women grind grain.