Our #objectoftheday is this ancient Egyptian set of colourful amethyst scarabs. Stringing them together was something done post excavation.
E.1200
#ancientegypt #amethyst #scarabs #museum
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Our #Objectoftheday is this small circular oil #lamp, with pinched handle, deep bowl and small rounded spout. It has ribbed design on sides. The top depicts a #Centaur (a creature with the head, arms, and torso of a human and the body of a horse), while the base has a wheel decoration.
C.554
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#ObjectoftheDay is this ivory and slate bracelet. Discovered at the ancient site of Naqada in what is often referred to as the ‘Royal Tomb’ the burial place of Neith-hotep. She was an ancient Egyptian queen, who lived around 5000 years ago, at the very beginnings of written history. E.5199
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#Objectoftheday is this #Archaic #Greek #kylix with black-figure #centaur decoration and painted eyes, dated to the mid-6th century BCE. ‘Eye-cups’ such as this would act as a practical joke – when the cup was lifted to the mouth, the eyes would give the drinker a funny face . C.650
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#Objectoftheday is this #ancientEgyptian bird-headed cosmetic palette. Dated to the Naqada II period & made from slate, it was likely used to grind pigments particularly for cosmetic use. This object it is currently on display & we're open every Wednesday Thursday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
E.5301
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Our #ObjectoftheDay is this reconstructed #ancientGreek white #ground lekythos, a pottery type commonly used for the storage of oil. It is of the black figure type and shows the winged #goddess #Nike, the goddess of #victory. It can be dated to the late 6th or early 5th century BC.
C.655
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Our #ObjectoftheDay is this ancient Egyptian eye inlay. This is part of a set that were found during the Mond-Emery excavations in Thebes in 1924. The inlay in made of stone, while its companion piece is made of wood.
E.670a
#ancientegypt #eye #excavations #Thebes #Thursday #stone #museum
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Today’s #ObjectoftheDay is this fragment of an #ancientGreek #lekythos (a tall vessel primarily used for the storage of oil) which shows a #Maenad, a female follower of #Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility, and ritual ecstasy. Likely dated to the late 6th or early 5th century BCE.
C.681
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Ancient Egyptian copper alloy statuette of the god Osiris
Our #ObjectoftheDay is this ancient Egyptian copper alloy statuette of the god Osiris. He was the god of fertility as well as the embodiment of the dead and the resurrected king.
E.1581
#ancientegypt #bronze #statuette #God #osiris #museum
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Our #objectoftheday is this rectangular five spouted oil lamp, with projecting "V" shaped handle. The lamp comes Egypt and more specifically from Alexandria.
C.567
#oillamp #alexandriaegypt #museum
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Ancient Egyptian coffin fragment with hieroglyphs
Our #ObjectoftheDay is this ancient Egyptian coffin fragment with hieroglyphs. It has a layer of red plaste applied to the wood and is covered by painted decoration.
E.7288d
#ancientegypt #coffinfragment #hieroglyphs #painteddecoration #museum
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#objectoftheday is this Corinthian aryballos decorated with soldiers in black and purple on white background. It dates to the Late Corinthian I period, 575-550 BCE. Aryballoi were small containers for scented oils thatwere mass-produced and widely distributed.
C.619
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Ancient Egyptian stone fragment with hieroglyphic inscription
Our #ObjectoftheDay is this ancient Egyptian stone fragment. It might have come from a tomb wall, possibly a false door. The hieroglyphic inscription most likely detailed the titles of the owner.
E.601
#ancientegypt #stonefragment #tombwall #hieroglyphs #museums
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Our #ObjectoftheDay is this oil lamp with elongated spout and handle, round body, with small centre hole. The top is decorated with palmettes and volutes with Erotes and Dionysus head.
C.553
#oillamp #Erotes #Dionysius #museum
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Ancient Egyptioan wooden dejd-pillar amulet
#ObjectoftheDay is this wooden djed-pillar #amulet. Meant to be an image of the spine of the #god #Osiris & represents the idea of stability. Djed-pillar amulets were essential in Egyptian afterlife as, without a spine a person would not be able to sit, stand or move around in the #afterlife. E.9302
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Apulian red-figure bell krater decorated with the portrait head of a bearded soldier, wearing a Thracian helmet
Our #objectoftheday is this Apulian red-figure bell krater decorated with the portrait head of a bearded soldier, wearing a Thracian helmet. It was found in Taranto, southern Italy, and is dated to around 340 BCE.
C.702
#Apulia #soldier #thracianhelmet #Italy #museum
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Our #objectoftheday are these vividly coloured #ancientEgyptian #glass #beads. They can be dated to the #NewKingdom and come from the site of Tell el-Amarna, where #excavations have shown that there were a number of #workshops that specialised in the manufacturing of glass.
E.5031
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#ObjectoftheDay is the rim and body of a black figure, white ground #ancientGreek #lekythos. This type of vessel was used for storing oil and more specifically olive oil. The white ground technique used made them too fragile for regular use & they were mainly associated with funerary rites. C.655
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Our #objectoftheday is this #ancientEgyptian wooden statuette of an unnamed man striding forward, a symbol of eternal vitality. It was #excavated at Abydos & it can be stylistically dated to the 12th Dynasty and identified as a Ka-statue, which were placed in tombs to receive offerings. E.7082
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Fragment of terracotta revetment showing volutes and palmettes, below which is the head of the ancient god Pan playing the pipes
#ObjectoftheDay is this fragment of terracotta revetment from Auletes, Italy. Dated to the 1st century BCE it shows volutes & palmettes, below which is the head of the god Pan playing the pipes. God of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. C.592
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Ancient Greek/Corinthian aryballos. It has black and purple paint decoration on white ground
#ObjectoftheDay is this #ancientGreek (and more specifically #Corinthian) #aryballos. It has black and purple #paint #decoration on white ground. This type of #vessel would have been used to store #perfume or #oil. The date of the aryballos pictured here is between 625-600 BCE.
C.633
#museum
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Right shoulder and torso of a black granite statue.
Our #objectoftheday is this damaged part of a black #granite #statue. Only the torso and right shoulder remain as well as a column at the back of the fragment. Similar in form to Napatan/early Meroitic statues of #kings and #gods.
E.723
#museum
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Ancient Greek pyxis with a separate lid
#ObjectoftheDay is this #ancientGreek #pyxis with a separate lid. Made from unglazed yellow clay but decorated with abstract incisions across the body and lid. Likely used to hold small #trinkets, #jewellery, and #cosmetics. This type of object might have been given to women as wedding gifts.
C.758
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Our #objectoftheday is this ancient Egyptian coffin fragment with the painted figure of the goddess Nut. She was the goddess of the sky, stars and cosmos.
E.593
#ancientegypt #coffinfragment #Goddess #museum
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Ancient Greek terracotta figurine of the goddess Nike,
Our #objectoftheday is this ancient Greek terracotta figurine of the goddess Nike, the personification of victory. She is placed on a high pedestal and has wings and an ornate drapery.
C.531
#ancientgreece #goddess #Nike #victory #museum
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Ancient Egyptian bronze statuette depicting the god Horus as a young boy
#Objectoftheday is this #ancientEgyptian #bronze #statuette depicting the #god #Horus (sometimes known as Harpocrates) as a young boy. Horus bears the markers of youth: the sidelock of hair and the finger held to the mouth. He also wears the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.
E.825
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Terracotta twin-handled Roman flagon
#ObjectoftheDay is this terracotta twin-handled #Roman #amphora used to store household necessities—including, of course, your wine! This one is simply decorated & is finished with a red glaze.
C.193
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Blue faience seal in the form of a crouching oryx gazelle
The the underside of the stamp also depicting an oryx
Our #Objectoftheday is this ancient Egyptian little blue faience seal in the form of a crouching oryx gazelle. Interestingly the stamp on the underside also depicts an oryx . It would have been used to mark ownership.
E.5426
#ancientegypt #gazelle #sealstamp #museum
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#ObjectoftheDay is this #Mycenaean Linear B clay tablet. Linear B was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of #Greek. This type of script was found mainly in the #palace archives at #Knossos & Khaniá in Crete, & Mycenae, Pylos, Thebes, & Tiryns in Greece.
C.591
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#ObjectoftheDay is this #ancientEgyptian green #faience #ring with #scarab bezel. The scarab was a symbol of #rebirth, #regeneration, and #protection in the #afterlife. It was modelled on the dung beetle association with the sun god Khepri, who brought the sunrise over the horizon each day.
E.199
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