Here we are with Akhenaten the 10th Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty. He ruled for 17 years and made the big mistake of kicking out all the old gods and picking a single new god, the Sun God Aton! A big mistake, as he got "canceled" after his death, His name was removed from the lists of rulers, his statues were removed from his temples and he pretty much ended the 18th dynasty, Nefertiti was his Queen and Tutankhamen his son. This giant head that we are posing in front of seems to be a misshapen giant head for a human! All of these items are housed in a mansion built by lumber barons at the turn of the century. The collection was grouped into Egyptian pieces from the old, middle and new kingdoms in the basement. Egyptian items from the Greek and Roman times on the first floor. Coptic and Islamic pieces were on the second floor.
The steps leading up to the museum.
Great Greco-Roman pottery
This is a new type of ceramic for us
No doubt a wine swilling cup
A winged beastie from the Saqqara region
These were awards given to the pantheistic athletes
A most delightful oil lamp
An intriguing way to display artifacts; use a beam to fill the room diagonally and dangle the pieces from the beam. We imagined it may be a seismic adaptation
A row of intact amphorae
The Pharoah on the left is doing a bit of flirting
A satyr holding a bearded man mask
Ap Ptolemaic queen with headdress
These items were recovered from the seabed. Large parts of Alexandria subsided into the sea due to soil liquification, flooding, earthquakes and / or tsunamis.
I love how the underwater photo is matched with the piece
From the depths
Look I found a bug!
Some of the finer recovered pieces were sent to other museums
Gold fever! Alexander the Great coinage
Later coins were much larger, Carlos IV of Spain
Older Geek and Roman coins
Still covered in marine life and cleaned items side by side
Scuba and huge statue
Wearing the combined crowns of upper an lower Egypt
Nice bob cut on Meresankh from Giza
A scribe is making an offering while his wife and daughters are dancing in white robes
A very detailed piece where the pharaoh is with a large staure of a god
These block statues were popular in the 6th century BCE
They offered a larger space to write on
This is a male figure but there is a fish net kind of covering on the midriff area
Smooches
This pharaoh Ramses II, early in his reign looks a bit bored
Goddess Sekhmet
The god Amann
Nice necklaces
A very detailed bird
Alabaster was used as a sculptural material with great results, Tithtmose III as a sphynx
This capitol, the top of a column is of the goddess Hathor Middle Kingdom
A scribe ready to scribble, old kingdom
Queen Hatshepsut, decreed herself as a Pharaoh because her son was too young to rule
The falcon representing Horus id shown here in limestone
Pepi Sennefer is giving an offering which is listed on the side
Enemies from the north from the first pyramid, the stepped pyramid
Beware!
Old Kingdon seated Ptah-hor-nefer
A wooden boat model of the bot that takes you to the underworld
In the tomb one needs slaves to make beer, grain and bread for the deceased
A trip through time, three portraits of Mersuanks over his lifetime
Another alabaster statue from Giza
Detail of a wooden statue
The lessons learned from working with wood transferred over to working with stone, old kingdom from Saqqara
Down into the tomb display
Anubis the Jackal
Different amulets placed in with the mummy are helpful in the passage to the afterlife
Gold amulets.
Some 70 or so amulets can be found wrapped up in a mummy
Three nested coffins
The top most
Middle
Inner most
The canopic jars that contain the organs, lungs, liver, insestines and stomach
Spooky
