- RDP Friday: ZOOMORPHIC
- I’ve read the books, attended the lectures and watched the documentaries on TV so I understand what the ancient Egyptians were saying when the gave attributes of animals that they feared and loved to their Gods.
- On the other hand when I’m am reading the books or run across pictures like the ones I’ve included below, I can hear this little voice that says- ” you know that sometimes what you see is exactly what you get”.
- I like that little voice- it reminds me to not just look at the world around me, it reminds me to think about it too-the writer in me loves the heck out of that little voice.
- amm
Title: Box for animal mummy surmounted by a cat, inscribed
Period: Late Period–Ptolemaic Period
Date: 664–30 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: 18th Dynasty (ca. 1550–1295 BC)
Place of discovery: Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut Deir el-Bahri Thebes, MMA (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) in 1928
Size: Height: 62 cm, width: 33 cm, Depth: 108cm
Material: Painted Limestone
Statue of the Goddess Hathor with Amenhotep II
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: 18th Dynasty, Reigns of Thutmosis III (1479-1425 BC) – Amenhotep II (1425-1400 BC)
Size: Height: 225 cm, Lenght: 227 cm
Place of discovery: Deir el Bahari – Temple of Thutmosis III (Thebes West)
Fish Shaped Cosmetics container
Place of discovery: Saqqara