Ancient Egypt : treasures from the collection of the Oriental Institute / by Emily Teeter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teeter, Emily.

Contributor:

University of Chicago. Oriental Institute.

Series:

Oriental Institute Museum publications ; 23.

Oriental Institute Museum publications ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Egyptian--Catalogs.

Art, Egyptian.

Art, Egyptian--Illinois--Chicago--Catalogs.

Illinois--Chicago.

Egypt--Antiquities--Catalogs.

Egypt.

Antiquities.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

146 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago ; Oxford : Oxbow, 2003.

Summary:

This fully-illustrated catalogue offers highlights of the Egyptian collection at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A brief history of the collection is followed by a catalogue of seventy-seven objects, which date from the early third millennium BC to the eighth century AD. Many of these objects have not been previously published. The artefacts include statues, stelae, tools, games, clothing, coffins, figured ostraca, and papyri; each item is described, and its function and symbolism are discussed. Brief texts are translated. Appendices give museum registration numbers, provenance, and bibliographies.

Contents:

A History of the Egyptian Collection 1

Early Dynastic Period and Old Kingdom (ca. 3100-2219 B.C.)

1. Votive Plaque 11

2. Mehen Game Board 13

3. Panel from the Tomb of Nefermaat and Itet 14

4. False Door of Ny-su-redi 16

5. The Confectioner, Tchenenet 18

6. Singers and Dancers 20

7. "Servant" Statues from the Tomb of Ny-kau-inpu 21

8. Nen-khefet-ka and His Wife Nefer-shemes 26

9. Lintel of Kha-bau-ptah 28

10. A Warning to Tomb Robbers 29

11. The Royal Herald, Neni 30

First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom (ca. 2219-1550 B.C.)

12. Uha and His Wife Henut-sen 33

13. Model Workshop 35

14. A Letter to the Dead 36

15. Stela of the Household of Senbu 38

New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1550-664 B.C.)

16. Nakht and Seth-Antwety 41

17. Funerary Figure of Kenamun 43

18. Child's Tunic 44

19. Statue of a God 46

20. Game of Twenty Squares 48

21. Detail of a Funerary Procession 50

22. Running Ibexes 51

23. Colossal Statue of Tutankhamun 52

24. Amun 55

25. Seti I and Ramesses II 56

26. Two Scenes of Nature 58

27. The Bad Boy 59

28. Stela Dedicated to the God Reshep 60

29. Decorative Tiles 61

30. Floral Column 62

31. Grooming Implements 64

32. Study for a Royal Tomb Painting 66

33. Head of a King 68

34. Canopic Jars 69

35. A Priest of Hathor 71

36. Stela of the Hearing Ear 73

37. Offering to the God 74

38. Cartonnage Case and Mummy of Meresamun 75

39. Brick Stamp 78

40. Amunirdis I and Diese-heb-sed 79

41. Reliefs from the Tomb of Montuemhet 80

The Late Period (664-332 B.C.)

42. Statue of Amun 83

43. Stela of Harsiese 85

44. Donation Stela 86

45. Composite Deity 89

46. Demotic "Marriage" Papyrus 90

47. Head from a Cat Coffin 92

48. Oracular Statue in the Form of a Falcon 94

49. Thoth Emblem 95

50. Ritual Vessel (Situla) 96

51. Book of the Dead 98

Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine Periods (4th century B.C.-8th century A.D.)

52. Statue Base of Djed-hor 101

53. Horus on the Crocodiles 103

54. Cult Statue of Queen Arsinoe II 105

55. Water Clock (Clepsydra) 107

56. Relief Fragment 109

57. Shoe 110

58. Mummy Mask 111

59. Funerary Stela of Pa-sher-o-pehty 112

60. Mummy Portrait 113

61. Mask from a Funerary Shroud 115

62. Lamp in Form of a Bird 116

1. Objects by Oriental Institute Museum Registration Number 127

2. Provenance of Catalogue Objects 128

3. Prior Publication of Catalogue Objects 131

4. Chronology of Ancient Egypt 138

Ancient Egyptian Personal Names 145

Royal Names 146.

ISBN:

1885923252

OCLC:

52830506