This wooden game box has two playing surfaces and a drawer for storing gaming pieces and throw sticks that were used as counters for determining moves in the games. The box is inscribed on the top and sides with funerary offering texts for the overseer of works Taia, his father, also named Taia, and his mother, Yuwi.
Charles I Triple Portrait
19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II, 1279–1213 B.C.
At Abu Simbel, the Ramesses constructed a small rock-cut temple for her next to his own and, for her burial, he commissioned a beautifully painted tomb in what is now called the Valley of the Queens.In this piece of artwork, the queen sits in front of a table playing a game of senet against an invisible opponent.
Funerary figure of isis
18th Dynasty, reign of Akhenaten, 1353–1336 B.C.
Material: Limestone
Credit Line: Purchase, Fletcher Fund and The Guide Foundation Inc. Gift, 1966, Accession Number: 66.99.38
This funerary figure belonged to a woman who had the title Singer of the Aten, the god worshipped by Akhenaten. Although similar to a shabti, this figure is not inscribed with chapter six of the Book of the Dead (the shabti spell) and makes no mention of the funerary god Osiris
Heart Scarab of Hatnefer
Early 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose II–Early Joint reign, 1492–1473 B.C.
Hatnefer's heart scarab is an exceptionally fine example of this type of funerary equipment and is comparable to those made for contemporary royalty. Every feature of the scarab beetle is carefully rendered. The exquisite chain is made of gold wire, plaited in a quadruple-link pattern
Blue Painted Storage Jar
18th Dynasty, reign of Akhenaten, 1353–1336 B.C.
Material: Pottery
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1955, Accession Number: 55.92.2
This jar, datable to the middle to late reign of Akhenaten, may have held wine or beer to be served at a banquet. An elaborate polychrome floral decoration was painted on the shoulder and neck.
Menna and Family, Hunting in the Marshes
18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose IV–Amenhotep III, 1400–1352 B.C.
Executed in painted plaster on the north wall of Menna's tomb chapel, this facsimile depicts the tomb owner fishing and fowling in the papyrus marshes.
Part of the preserved lower part of a wall scene. This finely decorated building has recently been suggested to be a vizier's formal office. The building is located in the Central City at Amarna, linked to the ceremonial Great Palace by a bridge constructed across the Royal Road
Shabiti of Akhenaten
18th Dynasty, reign of Akhenaten, 1353–1336 B.C.
Material: Faience
Credit Line: Purchase, Fletcher Fund and The Guide, Accession Number: 66.99.37
Shabtis were intended to perform work that the deceased was called upon to do in the afterlife. More than two hundred shabti fragments inscribed for Akhenaten are known, and their existence suggests that belief in the afterlife and certain aspects of traditional funerary practices survived during the Amarna period
Spindle Bottle with handle
18th Dynasty, reign of Akhenaten, 1353–1336 B.C.
Material: Glass
Credit Line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926
Accession Number: 26.7.1176
Egyptian glass vessels were often modelled after vessels originally made in other materials. This slender flask of turquoise glass was copied from an imported pottery "spindle bottle" of the type that Syrians are depicted carrying in contemporary Egyptian tomb paintings, actual examples of which would most likely have contained some sort of resin.
