An oval basket made of wicker for food preservation, found in the tomb of the Noble "Hat-Nefer" Who lived during the reign of King Thutmose II and Queen Hatshepsut in the 18th Dynasty around (1492-1473 BC).The basket whale contained some foods that "Hat-Nefer" might use when resurrecting and returning again in the Afterlife. It included some types of beautiful Egyptian bread, dom, dates, walnuts and other foods. The basket was made of ribbons of wicker palms intertwined with great craftsmanship with wonderful colors and decorations.Displayed in The Metropolitan Museum.
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A Coptic tombstone of limestone bearing an ankh (the sign of life) with a human face in the middle and bunches of vines, dating back to the sixth to seventh century AD, from the city of Panopolis (currently Akhmim) in Sohag.Displayed in The Metropolitan Museum.
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Head from an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut.New Kingdom ca. 1479–1458 B.C. This head originally belonged to one of the Osiride statues that were carved in high relief in niches along the rear wall of the upper terrace of Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el Bahri.Hatshepsut wears the Double Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt suggesting that the head was from a figure in one of the niches on the northern side of the terrace.These Osiride figures were architectural accents rather than freestanding statues and were carved from the same limestone blocks that were used to construct the temple itself.Displayed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Incredible artist's sketches of Ramesses IV and a Ramesside king hunting.They were both excavated in the Valley of the Kings, one in front of Ramesses IV tomb (KV02) during Davis excavation in 1905, and the other in the debris near the entrance of Tutankhamen's tomb (KV62) by Carter in 1920. Displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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A looped cross funerary stela carved in relief from limestone with a human face at the center. It dates to the 6th or 7th century CE during the Byzantine Period, and was found in Akhmim in Upper Egypt.This piece is now displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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