r/OutoftheTombs

Sobek statuette

Object Type
figure

Museum number
EA22924

Description
Bronze figure of Sobek, in anthropomophic human form with crocodile head, wearing the sun-disc with plumes and horns (one damaged).

Cultures/periods
Ptolemaic (?)
Late Period (?)

Findspot
Found/Acquired: Egypt
Africa: Egypt

Materials
bronze

Dimensions
Height: 15 centimetres
Width: 4.20 centimetres (max)
Depth: 4.38 centimetres

Location
Not on display

Condition
incomplete - one horn damaged

Subjects
ancient egyptian deity

Associated names
Representation of: Sobek

Acquisition name

Purchased from: Raymond G B Sabatier

Acquisition date
1890

Department
Egypt and Sudan

BM/Big number
EA22924

Registration number
1891,0511.20

Conservation
Treatment: 29 Apr 1976

The British Museum

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA22924

A new Egyptian study has come out. I have not read the full article, but the following on ydna caught my attention: 41.9% of those studied carried E haplogroup. I expected J to be the leading ydna, but it is not.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.02.715521v1

Bes Amulet

ECM.1540-2010

Parts
Object number
ECM.1540-2010

Object type
Jewellery

Identification

Description
amulet - Bes

Other number
263(?)

Description

Dimensions
Height: 8.6cm
Width: 2.9cm

Material
Faience

Physical description
Large amulet of the god Bes, well modelled in green faience, bow legged, lion's mask, naked except for high feather headdress. Feet on pval base; suspension loop behind headdress

History and association

Associated person
Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 (Compiler)

Field collection

Collection place
Egypt

Eaton College

https://catalogue.etoncollege.com/object-ecm-1540-2010

Isis and Horus

ECM.6008-2017

Parts

Object number
ECM.6008-2017

Object type
statuette/figurine

Identification

Description
large Isis and Harpocrates

Description

Material
bronze

Field collection

Collection place
Egypt

Votive bronze figure of Amon-Re

Object number
ECM.1531-2010

Object type
statuette/figurine

Identification

Description
Amon-Re

Other number
245

Description

Dimensions
Height: 19.6cm
Width: 3.7cm

Material
Metal
bronze

Physical description
Votive bronze figure of Amon-Re shown standing, wearing high plumed crown, divine beard, broad collar and shendyet-kilt; left foot to the fore, left hand forward to grasp sceptre, now missing; on rectangular tanged base

History and association

Associated person
Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 (Compiler)

Field collection

Collection place
Egypt

Erin College

https://catalogue.etoncollege.com/object-ecm-1531-2010

Sarcophagus of Harkhebit
Late Period (Saite)
595–526 B.C.

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 123
Horkhebit was a "Royal Seal Bearer, Sole Companion, Chief Priest of the Shrines of Upper and Lower Egypt, and Overseer of the Cabinet" in early Dynasty 26. His tomb was a great shaft over sixty feet deep sunk into the desert and solid limestone bedrock in the Late Period cemetery that covers most of the area east of the Djoser complex at Saqqara. In a huge plain chamber at the bottom of the shaft, a rectangular rock core was left standing and hollowed out to house this anthropoid sarcophagus. When the tomb was excavated by the Egyptian government in 1902, the sarcophagus contained the remains of a badly decomposed gilded cedar coffin, and a mummy that wore a mask of gilded silver, gold finger and toe stalls, and numerous small amulets. Other canopic and shabti equipment accompanied the burial. The finds went to the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, while this sarcophagus was purchased from the Egyptian government by the Metropolitan Museum.

The sarcophagus is one of a group with plump, squarish broad faces, smooth unarticulated bodies, and slightly protruding feet that originate in the Memphite area and date, when their dates can be closely ascertained, to the time from the reign of Psamtik II (ca. 595–589 B.C.) through the reign of Amasis (570-526 B.C.). Several of them may have been produced by the same workshop; this one bears a strong resemblance to one in Leiden datable by his name to the reign of Amasis. Technically the sarcophagus is one of the masterpieces of late Egyptian hard-stone carving. The interiors of the extraordinarily rendered sunk-relief hieroglyphs and figures were left rough and may have been intended to be painted, perhaps in green. The long text on the lid comes from the Book of the Dead.

Overview
Title: Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Period: Late Period (Saite)

Dynasty: Dynasty 26, mid to late

Date: 595–526 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Memphite Region, Saqqara, Late Period cemetery, Tomb of Harkhebit, burial chamber, Egyptian Antiquities Service excavations, 1902

Medium: Greywacke

Dimensions: H. 256.5 cm (101 in.); W. 127 cm (50 in.) at shoulders; th. (of lid and base together) 132.1 cm (52 in.)

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1907

Object Number: 07.229.1a, b

Curatorial •

Title: Sarcophagus of Harkhebit

Period: Late Period (Saite)

Dynasty: Dynasty 26, mid to late

Date: 595–526 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Memphite Region, Saqqara, Late Period cemetery, Tomb of Harkhebit, burial chamber, Egyptian Antiquities Service excavations, 1902

Medium: Greywacke

Dimensions: H. 256.5 cm (101 in.); W. 127 cm (50 in.) at shoulders; th. (of lid and base together) 132.1 cm (52 in.)

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1907

Object Number: 07.229.1a, b

Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

Translation
Box (same text on both sides, except for the ending)

Revered before Ptah-Sokar, royal sealbearer, sole companion, chief overseer of the national shrines of Upper and Lower Egypt, chamberlain Harkhebit, justified, possessor of reverence, son of the god’s scribe Padi-Hor (left), born of Ta-senet-en-Hor (right).

Lid, upper left

Recitation: I will be the protection of the burial of the Osiris chamberlain Harkhebit, justified. Figures: Hapi, Qebeh-senuf, He Who is Under his Moringa Tree, Anubis.

Lid, lower left

Recitation by Nephthys: (2) I have encircled my brother, Osiris chamberlain (3) Harkhebit. Your flesh will not be bent.

Lid, upper right

Recitation: I will be the protection of the burial of the Osiris chamberlain Harkhebit, justified. Figures: Imseti, Dua-mutef, He Who Sees his Father, Farsighted Horus.

Lid, lower right

Recitation by Isis: (2) Osiris chamberlain Harkhebit, (3) I am your sister Isis. I will be your protection.

Text in the center (Spell 72 of the Book of the Dead)

Recitation by the Osiris chamberlain Harkhebit: Hail to you, lords of order, free (2) of disorder, who are alive forever, to the limits of eternity! You should reveal the world to me, since I am effective (3) in what you do, I am in control of your magic, I am recognized as you are. You should save (4) me from the aggressive crocodile in this doubly-ordered land. You should give me my mouth that I might speak (5) with it.

Offerings will be given to me in your presence, because I know you, I know (6) your names. I know the name of that great god to whose nose you give sustenance: Tekemu (7) is his name; he opens the region below the eastern horizon of the sky; he opens the region below the western horizon (8) of the sky. I depart when he departs, I proceed when he proceeds, and vice-versa. You will not remove me from your starry path. The Rebel will not gain control (9) of me. I will not be rejected at your gate. You will not close your doors on me.

My bread is in Pe; (10) my beer is in Dep. I have taken possession of the temple that my father Atum gave me. He established (11) for me an earthly house, with barley and emmer in it without number, and festival is made in it for me by my son (12) of my body. May you give me invocation offerings of bread and beer, cattle and fowl, alabaster and clothing, incense and oil, every good and pure thing on which a god lives.

I will be set forever (13) in any form I desire. I go downstream to the Field of Reeds, I go upstream to the Field of Offering. I am the Double Lion.

James P. Allen 2004

Provenance
Excavated at Saqqara by the Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte, 1902. Purchased from the Egyptian Government, 1907.

References
Lythgoe, Albert M. 1907. "Recent Egyptian Acquisitions." In The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 2, no. 12 (December), pp. 193–94, fig. 1.

Russmann, Edna R. 1973. "The Statue of Amenemope-em-hat." In Metropolitan Museum Journal, 8, cf. p. 37, n. 13.

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1977. Ancient Egypt in the Metropolitan Museum Journal, 1–11. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 103, n. 13.

Arnold, Dieter 1997. "The Late Period Tombs of Hor-khebit, Wennefer and Wereshnefer at Saqqara." In Études sur l'Ancien Empire et la nécropole de Saqqâra dédiées à Jean-Philippe Lauer. Montpellier: Université. Paul Valéry - Montpellier III, pp. 31–3; 40–3, figs. 1–5.

Jansen-Winkeln, Karl 2014. Inschriften der Spätzeit, Teil IV: Die 26. Dynastie, 2 vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pp. 908-909.

Trismegistos. no. 90677.”

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/548211

Mummy Mask

PLACE CREATED Egypt, Africa

CULTURE Egyptian

PERIOD Roman Period

DATE 1st - 2nd century CE

MEDIUM Linen, gesso, palm fiber, pigment

CREDIT LINE Gift of Joseph A. Lewis II and Sofi Lewis

DIMENSIONS 14 15/16 x 8 1/4 in. (38 x 21 cm)

OBJECT NUMBER 2013.043.008

Exhibition History
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 2007-2013
Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 10 - November 11, 2018

Published References
Asja Müller, Ägyptens schöne Gesichter : die Mumienmasken der römischen Kaiserzeit und ihre Funktion im Totenritual (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2021), 334.

TERMS

PROVENANCE
With Archea Ancient Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands, acquired from Swiss art market. Ex coll. Harer Family Trust, San Bernardino, California, purchased from Archea Ancient Art, 1997. On loan to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (L-R 317.1997), Boston, Massachusetts, 2007 - 2013. Ex coll. Joseph and Sofi Lewis, United States, purchased from Harer Family Trust, 2007.

STATUS Not on view

COLLECTIONS Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art

Technical Notes
Visible-induced Infrared Luminescence (VIL) imaging revealed the presence of Egyptian Blue pigment, correlating with areas that appear blue in visible light.

The Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University

https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/32650/mummy-mask?ctx=faf9c667178950e9c64c832bf75701056ddede35&idx=13

[7931] Mummy mask, Object, Registered, Africa, Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes (Luxor)
New Kingdom (Dyn. 18)

Mummy mask for a woman, made of linen and plaster with a painted surface. The face is gilded, with eyes of inlaid stone. The woman wears a head-dress of vulture feathers over a tripartite wig or head-dress, which is now white but has traces of dark paint. The neck and chest of the mask are covered by several rows representing a beaded broad collar.

Masks of this type are rare. They were produced at Thebes (modern Luxor) at the very beginning of the New Kingdom, when Egypt was reuniting itself after a period of warfare and political upheaval. This woman was probably from a high-ranking noble family with close links to the king.

Acc. no. 8106 is broken tab from the bottom of this mask

Manchester Museum

https://museumcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/item/0375edf4-59f0-3776-8e56-14666fa8551e/?s%3DMummy%2Bmask%2B%26view%3Dgrid&pos=18

Statuette of Hathor

664–30 BCE OR 664–330 BCE
Egypt, Late period (715–332 BCE), Dynasty 26 or later

Medium
Bronze, solid cast

Measurements
Overall: 18.8 x 3.4 x 4.4 cm (7 3/8 x 1 5/16 x 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line
Bequest of John L. Severance1942.773

Location
107 Egyptian

Provenance

Purchased from R.H. Blanchard, Blanchard's Egyptian Museum, Cairo, by John L. Severance

Citations
Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942. Mentioned: p. 86, cat. no. 262 archive.org

Wunderlich, Silvia. "Department of Egyptian Art: Bronzes." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 29, no. 9 (November 1942): 158-159 Mentioned: p. 158 www.jstor.org

Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced: p.429; Mentioned: p.429-30

Exhibition History
Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943).
CMA 1942, no. 262

Cite this Page
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Cleveland Museum of Art

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1942.773

Mummy mask

ECM.6275-2017

Parts

Object number
ECM.6275-2017

Object type
Mummy mask

Identification

Description
mummy mask with gilded face

Comments
James Schools displays

Description

Material
cartonnage

Field collection

Collection place
Egypt

Eton College

https://catalogue.etoncollege.com/object-ecm-6275-2017

Hathor Sistrum

ECM.1693-2010

Parts

Object number
ECM.1693-2010

Object type
Musical instrument

Identification
Description
sistrum - inscription

Comments
Web images used with permission of The Barber Institute

Other number
320
577

Description

Dimensions
Height: 23.6cm
Width: 5.5cmMaterial
Faience

Physical description
Sistrum, pale blue faience picked out in black, gateway top with double transverse piercings for shaker rods, cavetto cornice surmounted by Maat opposite two ba birds; central Hathor aegis; cylindrical handle with vertical inscription down each side

History and association

Associated person
Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 (Compiler)

Field collection

Collection place
Egypt

Hathor bowl

ECM.1758-2010

Parts

Object number
ECM.1758-2010

Object type
container

Identification

Description
bowl

Comments
Web images used with permission of The Barber Institute.

Other number
52
Description

Dimensions

Height: 4.6cm

Material
Faience

Physical description
Flat based bowl of green faience with parallel sides and flat, slightly everted rim; outside and rim decorated with linear design in black, inside edge with petals and inside base with the Hathor cow advancing right in a papyrus marsh.

History and association

Associated person
Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 (Compiler)

Field collection

Collection place

Seated Isis Amulet
ECM.1532-2010

Parts

Object number
ECM.1532-2010

Object type
Jewellery

Identification

Description
amulet - Isis suckling Harpocrates

Other number
36.[...]

Description

Dimensions
Height: 5.7cm
Width: 1.6cm

Material
Faience

Physical description
Blue faience amulet of Isis, seated on decorated openwork throne, wearing tripartite wig with uraeus diadem, suckling Harpocrates; feet on rectangular base; suspension ring behind diadem

History and association

Associated person
Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 (Compiler)

Field collection

Collection place
Egypt

Eton College

https://catalogue.etoncollege.com/object-ecm-1532-2010