This folio from Walters manuscript W.658 contains the Western hemisphere within a windrose with the Atlantic Ocean in the center.For the latest information about this object, illuminated manuscripts; folios (leaves); maps, visit art.thewalters.org.Dynasty: Inscriptions: Reign: Style:
These illustrations from Walters manuscript W.659 depict wheat (hintah) and hellebore (kharbaq).For the latest information about this object, illuminated manuscripts; folios (leaves), visit art.thewalters.org.Dynasty: Ottoman DynastyInscriptions: Reign: Style:
These illustrations from Walters manuscript W.659 depict wild chicory (hindiba), a Yemeni plant called wars, and a variety of squash or pumpkin (yaqtin).For the latest information about this object, illuminated manuscripts; folios (leaves), visit art.thewalters.org.Dynasty: Ottoman DynastyInscriptions: Reign: Style:
This illustration from Walters W.750 depicts wild cucumber (qatha' al-barri or qatha' al-himar).For the latest information about this object, illuminated manuscripts; folios (leaves), visit art.thewalters.org.Dynasty: Inscriptions: Reign: Style: Islamic
The goddess Isis stands with her arms outstretched in a protective gesture; wings are attached to her arms. She wears the crown of Upper Egypt and there is a vulture engraved on her back.For the latest information about this object, statuettes (statues), visit art.thewalters.org.Dynasty: Inscriptions: Reign: Style:
This faience winged scarab has a flat underside without a bottom design or drill-holes. The design on the scarab's back is very simple. It has a rough and uneven surface, balanced proportions, no evidence of extremities or partition lines, and rough workmanship. The piece is poorly made.
The scarab functioned as a funerary amulet, and would have been attached to mummy bandages. Winged scarabs should assure the renewal of the deceased by meeting the sun god in the afterlife.
Winged scarabs were the central part of the amulet set of a mummy.For the latest information about this object, scarabs; amulets, visit art.thewalters.org.Dynasty: Inscriptions: Reign: Style:
The ancient Egyptians believed that the dung beetle, the Scarabaeus sacer, was one of the manifestations of the sun god. Representations of these beetles were used as amulets, and for ritual or administrative purposes.
Winged scarabs were part of the amulet set of a mummy. This example has a flat, undecorated bottom, and is executed in one piece. The beetle is glazed dark blue, and the wings light green. The back of the scarab is flat, the highest points are pronotum (dorsal plate of the prothorax) and elytron (wing cases). There are no separation lines between the different parts of the back. The head section consists of the semicircular head, trapezoidal side plates, and a large trapezoidal clypeus (front plate). The slightly raised extremities are modeled. Four small drill-holes flank the body, two at each side. The wings are somewhat asymmetrically, and the right one is smaller than the left. They display a tripartite surface structure. The inner part shows facet design, the middle and outer part a feather pattern. A large drill-hole exists at each tip of the wings.
Such winged scarabs are funerary amulets, and were originally attached to mummy wrappings. The amulet should assure the renewal of the deceased in the afterlife by the sun god. Winged scarabs consist mostly of several pieces, the scarab and two attached wings (e.g. Walters Art Museum, 42.1430, 42.1448), one-piece examples are more rare.For the latest information about this object, scarabs; plaques (flat objects); amulets, visit art.thewalters.org.Dynasty: early Ptolemaic DynastyInscriptions: Reign: Style:
Nefru was the only woman to bear the title "Great Royal Wife" to King Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II. This delicate relief fragment comes from the chapel of her tomb. It shows the head, shoulders, and hand of a woman attending Queen Nefru. The staff that crosses her body supported a sunshade, part of which appears in back of her head. The sunshade bearer was part of a line of at least ten women and one man. The large ear and elongated eye are characteristic of the work of the sculptors who decorated the tomb.For the latest information about this object, reliefs; sculpture; paintings, visit art.thewalters.org.Dynasty: 11th DynastyInscriptions: Reign: Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II (2055-2004 BC)Style:
Traces of red grid lines can be seen in this fragmentary painting from a tomb wall. It depicts a half-kneeling, half-squatting, woman in front of an offering table. The grid was used in ancient Egypt to assure the right proportions and layout of paintings and reliefs.For the latest information about this object, mural paintings; fragments, visit art.thewalters.org.Dynasty: 18th DynastyInscriptions: Reign: Style:
This carved statuette of a woman standing has a pitted surface. There is a stele at the back.For the latest information about this object, figurines; statuettes; sculpture, visit art.thewalters.org.Dynasty: Inscriptions: Reign: Style:
This limestone statuette is carved in the round. It depicts a woman with her arms at her sides and her feet broken off. There is an inscribed stele at her back. The piece has been broken in two and repaired.For the latest information about this object, figurines; statuettes; sculpture, visit art.thewalters.org.Dynasty: 18th DynastyInscriptions: [Inscription] On steleReign: Style: