Add to ORKGThis picture exemplifies the best style of painted relief as practiced under the kings of the early Nineteenth Dynasty. The beautiful design contrives ingeniously to do honour, not only to the Pharaoh who built the temple, but also to the two gods outside whose adjoining chapels the scene is found. The king, kneeling on the conventionalized alabaster basin that represents festivals in hieroglyphic writing, offers to Ptah a cunningly-wrought inlaid jewel symbolizing millions of Jubilees to be accorded to himself. This jewel shows the god J:Ieh, who impersonated 'millions' or 'infinite time', squatting upon the aforesaid alabaster basin and holding erect in his hands the palm-branches signifying 'years '. These rest on the tadpole and seal, s...
The noble from whose tomb this Plate and the next two are taken has not been fortunate enough to hav...
From a not long since discovered tomb of a 'Chief of the Altar in the House of Rarmesse', i.e. in th...
The gaily painted and well-preserved tomb of Nefretere, the queen of Ramesses II, is here represente...
This and the next three pictures are taken from a single large scene in the tomb of the High-priest ...
Of the three pictures reproduced in this work from the tomb of Userhet, 'High-priest of the spirit (...
With this picture we skip four centuries and embark upon the paintings of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Pl...
In this picture we pass to the Twentieth Dynasty, when there still existed careful painters who coul...
The art of the reign of Tutankhamun is here further illustrated by four pictures from the tomb of Hu...
This clean-coloured fragment, the subject of which is analogous to that of Plates XIV and XXI-XXIV, ...
Three pictures must suffice to illustrate the new direction given to Egyptian painting by the artist...
It is well known that the kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty and onwards possessed mortuary temples fri...
This Plate reproduces a portion of the decorative motifs from the base of a royal baldachin under wh...
By the kindness of Dr. Howard Carter we are permitted to include in this work the first coloured rep...
The repertoire of scenes on Egyptian private stelae is relatively limited to scenes of the funerary ...
This and the four following pictures are taken from the tomb of one of the great feudal princes of t...
The noble from whose tomb this Plate and the next two are taken has not been fortunate enough to hav...
From a not long since discovered tomb of a 'Chief of the Altar in the House of Rarmesse', i.e. in th...
The gaily painted and well-preserved tomb of Nefretere, the queen of Ramesses II, is here represente...
This and the next three pictures are taken from a single large scene in the tomb of the High-priest ...
Of the three pictures reproduced in this work from the tomb of Userhet, 'High-priest of the spirit (...
With this picture we skip four centuries and embark upon the paintings of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Pl...
In this picture we pass to the Twentieth Dynasty, when there still existed careful painters who coul...
The art of the reign of Tutankhamun is here further illustrated by four pictures from the tomb of Hu...
This clean-coloured fragment, the subject of which is analogous to that of Plates XIV and XXI-XXIV, ...
Three pictures must suffice to illustrate the new direction given to Egyptian painting by the artist...
It is well known that the kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty and onwards possessed mortuary temples fri...
This Plate reproduces a portion of the decorative motifs from the base of a royal baldachin under wh...
By the kindness of Dr. Howard Carter we are permitted to include in this work the first coloured rep...
The repertoire of scenes on Egyptian private stelae is relatively limited to scenes of the funerary ...
This and the four following pictures are taken from the tomb of one of the great feudal princes of t...
The noble from whose tomb this Plate and the next two are taken has not been fortunate enough to hav...
From a not long since discovered tomb of a 'Chief of the Altar in the House of Rarmesse', i.e. in th...
The gaily painted and well-preserved tomb of Nefretere, the queen of Ramesses II, is here represente...