Votive Menit Counterweight with Images of the Goddess Hathor and the Sacred Cow in a Papyrus Boat
Small Pitcher with an Ibex Head and Neck as an Handle
Egyptian alabaster jug
Figure of an Ibex, perhaps from a Perfume Flask
I captured this in 2008, and noted I'd missed something interesting at far right...
So in 2009 I went back and got it:
The foreleg has a role in Egyptian mythology:
(Do Click to see larger)
I don't have info for the two pieces at far left, but I do have, in order left to right:
Tube for Eye Paint (Kohl) in the Shape of a Papyrus Column
Dynasty 18, reigns of Thutmose IV to Amenhotep III (ca. 1400-1352 BCE)
Dark blue glass with dragged patterns, lines and edging in green and yellow.
(MMA 26.7.1183)
Bronze, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (ca.1390-1352 BCE)
Rogers Fund, 1951 (51.157.2)
Bronze, Dynasty 18, probably reign of Amenhotep III (ca.1390-1352 BCE)
Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926 (26.7.838)
Dynasty 18, reigns of Thutmose IV to Amenhotep III (ca. 1400-1352 BCE)
Rogers Fund, 1944 (44.4.77)
Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (ca.1390-1352 BCE)
Mottled, semitranslucent quartz; two vertical holes in bottom, two horizontal holes in front and rear
Purchase, Vaughn Foundation Gift, by exchange, 1980 (1980.2)
Fragment of a Vase Decorated with an Ibex among Plants
Faience, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (ca.1390-1352 BCE)
From the king's palace at Malqatta
Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926 (26.7.954)
Model of the foreleg of a horned animal, perhaps from a foundation deposit
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1400–1295 B.C.E.
Wood; remains of black pigment, length: 12.7 cm (5 in.)
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, MMA 2006.16
"In the stars of the Great Bear the Egyptians saw an adze (mshtyu) or a fore-leg (hps)"
(Text TeVelde, Illustration Ann Macy Roth)
(There's more on the adze HERE)
