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“
O scribe, be not idle, be not idle, else you shall promptly be curbed. Do not give your heart to pleasures, or you shall be a failure. Write with your had, read with your mouth, and take the advice of those who know more than you. Exercise the office of magistrate, then you will find it (of account) in old age. Fortunate is a scribe skilled in his office, a master of upbringing (?) . Persevere in action every day, that you may gain mastery over them. spend no day in idleness of your shall be beaten. The boy has a back, and he hearkens to the beating of him…

From “The advice to a youthful scribe” as found on Pap. Anastasi V (trans. Caminos, Late Egyptian Miscellanies, 1954: p. 231).

This text is part of a corpus of material found on many manuscripts from the New Kingdom, known collectively as the”Late Egyptian miscellanies”. This set of texts comprises ‘wisdom’ literature like the extract quoted above, model letters, as well as short hymns and poems. Most of these are the same texts, or similar texts. The miscellanies appear to have been used in scribal training, possibly as a form of apprentice’s masterpiece.

Scarab of Amenhotep III hunting Lions New Kingdom: Eighteenth Dynasty  Egypt (Source: Musei Captiolini)

Scarab of Amenhotep III hunting Lions

New Kingdom: Eighteenth Dynasty 

Egypt

(Source: Musei Captiolini)

Statue of a Hawk Sculpture End of 4th century BC Black granite Late Period (Source: Musei Capitolini) View high resolution

Statue of a Hawk

Sculpture
End of 4th century BC
Black granite
Late Period
(Source: Musei Capitolini)
Greco Egyptian, probably minted in Alexandria, Egypt Coin Showing Arsinoë II, after 270 B.C. Gold octodrachmDiam. 2.9 cm; 27.76 g Source: Art Institute Chicago View high resolution

Greco Egyptian, probably minted in Alexandria, Egypt

Coin Showing Arsinoë II, after 270 B.C.

Gold octodrachm
Diam. 2.9 cm; 27.76 g

Source: Art Institute Chicago

Cartonnage Mummy Case Early 2nd Century AD Roman Period Egypt Mummy of a Greek youth, aged 19-21, named Artemidorus in a cartonnage body-case with mythological decoration in gold leaf and an encaustic on limewood portrait-panel covering the face and inscription on the chest. There is an inscription in Greek on the mummy-case. (Source: The British Museum) View high resolution

Cartonnage Mummy Case

Early 2nd Century AD

Roman Period Egypt

Mummy of a Greek youth, aged 19-21, named Artemidorus in a cartonnage body-case with mythological decoration in gold leaf and an encaustic on limewood portrait-panel covering the face and inscription on the chest. There is an inscription in Greek on the mummy-case.

(Source: The British Museum)

Gold cuff bracelet of Prince Nemareth Made from Gold and Lapis Lazuli c.940 BC 22nd Dynasty (Source: The British Museum) View high resolution

Gold cuff bracelet of Prince Nemareth

Made from Gold and Lapis Lazuli

c.940 BC

22nd Dynasty

(Source: The British Museum)

Ibis Coffin 305 - 30 BC Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period   Animal mummies were routinely placed in some type of container once the animal had been wrapped in linen. The more ordinary containers were specially designed or reused pottery jars. Such objects have been found by the tens of thousands in so-called animal cemeteries at a number of sites in Egypt. At times elaborate coffins were crafted to hold the animal mummies. The ibis mummy held by this coffin was placed within through the detachable lid on the back. The gilding of the body and the exquisite detailing of the head, legs, and feet make this example one of the finest of its kind.   Source: Brooklyn Museum of Art View high resolution

Ibis Coffin

305 - 30 BC

Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period

 

Animal mummies were routinely placed in some type of container once the animal had been wrapped in linen. The more ordinary containers were specially designed or reused pottery jars. Such objects have been found by the tens of thousands in so-called animal cemeteries at a number of sites in Egypt. At times elaborate coffins were crafted to hold the animal mummies. The ibis mummy held by this coffin was placed within through the detachable lid on the back. The gilding of the body and the exquisite detailing of the head, legs, and feet make this example one of the finest of its kind.

 

Source: Brooklyn Museum of Art

The Giza Plateau

Giza is located only a few kilometers south of Cairo, several hundred meters from the last houses in the southernmost part of the city proper, where a limestone cliff rises abruptly from the other side of a sandy desert plateau. The ancient Egyptians called this place imentet, “The West” or kher neter, “the necropolis”.

Though the three Great Pyramids are the most famous and prominent monuments at Giza, the site has actually been a Necropolis almost since the beginning of Pharaonic Egypt. A tomb just on the outskirts of the Giza site dates from the reign of the First Dynasty Pharaoh Wadj (Djet), and jar sealings discovered in a tomb in the southern part of Giza mention the Second Dynasty Pharaoh Ninetjer. 

Exactly how big Giza is may never be known. Excavations have continued to find new tombs and artefacts since Bezoni, Caviglia, Perring, and Vyse began the first systematic study of Giza in the early 1800s. It has been explored and excavated more thoroughly than any other site in Egypt, possibly more than any other site in the world, yet no one believes the research is anywhere near complete today.

(Source: Tour Egypt; Photos Belong to Admin)

Fishing and Fowling scene from the tomb of Nebamun 1350 BC 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom Fragment of a polychrome tomb-painting representing Nebamun, standing in a small boat, fowling and fishing in the marshes, his wife stands behind and his daughter sits beneath, he holds a throw-stick in one hand and three decoy herons in the other, his cat is shown catching three of the numerous birds which have been startled from the papyrus-thicket.  (Source: The British Museum) View high resolution

Fishing and Fowling scene from the tomb of Nebamun

1350 BC

18th Dynasty, New Kingdom

Fragment of a polychrome tomb-painting representing Nebamun, standing in a small boat, fowling and fishing in the marshes, his wife stands behind and his daughter sits beneath, he holds a throw-stick in one hand and three decoy herons in the other, his cat is shown catching three of the numerous birds which have been startled from the papyrus-thicket. 

(Source: The British Museum)

Scarab Pectoral 1275 BC 19th Dynasty, New Kingdom (Source: The British Museum) View high resolution

Scarab Pectoral

1275 BC

19th Dynasty, New Kingdom

(Source: The British Museum)

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