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Ptah was the main god of Memphis, the capital of Egypt for much of its history. He was the god of artists, craftsmen and masons. The name of his temple in Egyptian was Hwt-ka-Ptah, which the Greeks took as the name of the country - Hikuptah became Aiguptos, or Egypt, which is what we call it today.
[IMG]Egyptian, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 (ca. 1332-1323 B.C.). Statue of Ptah. Gilded wood, faience and glass. H. 52.8 cm; W. 11.6 cm. Thebes, Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Tutankhamun[/IMG]
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God Ra and harpist Le musicien d'Amon Djedkhonsouiouefânkh joue de la harpe devant le dieu Rê-Horakhty, Troisième Période Intermédiaire, 1069 - 664 avant J.-C., bois
Zeus Yahweh
Phoenician drachm, 4th century BC, on exhibit in the British Museum. The coin shows a seated deity, labelled either "YHW" (Yahu) or "YHD" (Judea), see below. Stephen Herbert Langdon, Mythology of All Races - Semitic. Boston. Archaeological Institute of America. Marshall Jones Company (1931): "A coin from Gaza in Southern Philista, fourth century BC, the period of the Jewish subjection to the last of the Persian kings, has the only known representation of this Hebrew deity. The letters YHW are incised just above the hawk(?) which the god holds in his outstretched left hand, Fig. 23. He wears a himation, leaving the upper part of the body bare, and sits upon a winged wheel. The right arm is wrapped in his garment. At his feet is a mask. Because of the winged chariot and mask it has been suggested that Yaw had been identified with Dionysus on account of a somewhat similar drawing of the Greek deity on a vase where he rides in a chariot drawn by a satyr. The coin was certainly minted under Greek influence, and consequently others have compared Yaw on his winged chariot to Triptolemos of Syria, who is represented on a wagon drawn by two dragons. It is more likely that Yaw of Gaza really represents the Hebrew, Phoenician and Aramaic Sun-god, El, Elohim, whom the monotheistic tendencies of the Hebrews had long since identified with Yaw...Sanchounyathon...based his history upon Yerombalos, a priest of Yeuo, undoubtedly the god Yaw, who is thus proved to have been worshipped at Gebal as early as 1000 BC." (pp. 43-44) But Sukenik (1934) read the three letters on the (same?) coin not as yhw, but as yhd, i.e. "Yehud" or "Judah" (figure 8, facing page 543. "The Persian Period." Gosta W. Ahlstrom. The History of Ancient Palestine. Minneapolis. Fortress Press. 1993, 1994). The arrangement of the deity sitting on a winged wheel has been compared to Ezekiel's vision of Yahweh's throne as flying about the heavens on four wheels accompanying Cherubim (Ez 1:16-21; 10:2-19 and Dan 7:9). Ahlstrom ( "The Persian Period." Gosta W. Ahlstrom. The History of Ancient Palestine. Minneapolis. Fortress Press. 1993) notes the controversy over the inscription being read yhw vs. yhd: "The above-mentioned coin with a bearded deity sitting on a winged wheel that bears the inscription yhd (earlier read yhw, which could refer to Yahweh) is unique in that it depicts a deity (see figure 8). If the reading yhd is correct, the inscription (in lapidary Aramaic) names a province rather than a deity, which is rare.. This must be an official coin, probably struck by the Persian administration in Jerusalem. The date would be close to 400 BCE. L. Mildenberg says that the deity 'depicts no specific god, but a general conception of deity easily comprehensible to many people in the western part of the Persian empire'. If so, the people of Yehud may have associated the god with Yahweh, whom they called the 'God of Heaven', a well-known Iranian concept." (p. 898) The yhd reading appears to be accepted now: "E. L. Sukenik's reading of yhd has been widely accepted: see his 'Paralipomena Palaestinensia', Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society. Volume 14 (1934), pp. 178-84. S. A. Cook objected to it asking why there would be a picture of a bearded man on a winged wheel without a corresponding name ('Ahlstrom cites: 'The Jahu Coin'. in the journal Zeitschrift für die alttestementliche Wissenschaft. Volume 56 [1938]. pp. 268-71) In either case, the item is a Hebrew (Jewish) coin of the Persian period, showing a deity sitting on a throne with wheeled wings. Gitler and Lemaire (2003) understand the deity on the winged wheel might be Yahweh: "Two new YHD obverse types have been published by Meshoer, one with an ear (probably Yhwh's ear listening to prayers) and the other with a Shopher (61). Also taking into account the well-known YHD drachm depicting a deity seated on a winged wheel, he suggests that a figurative representation of the deity was still tolerated at the time." (p. 4. Haim Gitler & Andre Lemaire. "Phoenicia and Palestine in the Persian Period." in C. Alfaro & A. Burnett (editors). A Survey of Numismatic Research 1996-2001. Madrid, Spain. 2003. pp. 151-175) Date circa 400 BC; 1914 (photograph); 27 January 2007 (original upload date)
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An Egyptian Bronze Figure of the Goddess Isis with Horus, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C. - Of slender form seated with her feet resting on a trapezoidal footstool, her son Horus in her lap, & wearing a long close-fitting dress, engraved broad collar, echeloned tripartite wig, vulture headdress, & diadem of uraei surmounted by horns & sun-disk, her face with lips rounded at the corners, large eyes with finely incised folds on the upper lids, & incised tapering eyebrow
Anuket - Goddess of the Nile river. Egypt, Dynasty XIX. / Louvre
Statue, Wadjet (?) Period: Late Period Dynasty: Dynasty 2526 Date: ca. 712525 B.C. Geography: Egypt Medium: Bronze or copper all
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Statue of the Goddess Sakhmet Period: New Kingdom Dynasty: Dynasty 18 Reign: reign of Amenhotep III Date: ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Geography: Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Karnak Medium: Granodiorite
A Rare Gold Statuette of the Goddess Mut H. 5.6 cm. Gold.Egypt, Late Period, 25th Dynasty, ca. 700 B.C.ss
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Hathor. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III (1388-1351 BCE). From Coptos. Basalt. | Turin Egyptian Museum
Head of a Cow Goddess (Hathor or Mehetweret) Date: ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Accession Number: 19.2.5
Statue of Bes. Roman period 1st C. A.D. Marble. Starting in the Middle Kingdom as a secondary god his image was widespread in Egypt. His sphere of protection focused mainly on aspects cherished in private religion, such as the home, fertility, marriage and childbirth. In the Roman world, Bes was often related to the cult of Isis. Often pictured as a dwarf distorted by a grimace, his demonic appearance and weapons served no other purpose than to frighten evil spirits. Colonna, Latium, Italy.
ANTIQUITIES ORIENTAL: PHOENICIAN SCULPTURE 6TH BCE Lion-headed Genius Terrae Africae. Terracotta statue (4th BCE) (reconstruction). Height 150 cm Musee du Bardo, Tunis, Tunisia
Limestone statue of the god Bes, Late Period
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Bastet - Solid cast bronze statue of the cat goddess, Egypt 664-332 BC. (Musée du Louvre)
Egyptian Bronze Sculpture of Bastet with Gold Earrings -- 600-300 BCE… 4d
Bastet - Bast was a local deity whose cult was centred in the city of Bubastis, now Tell Basta, which lay in the Delta near what is known as Zagazig today. The town, known in Egyptian as pr-bȝstt (also transliterated as Per-Bast), carries her name, literally meaning "House of Bast". It was known in Greek as Boubastis (Βούβαστις) and translated into Hebrew as Pî-beset. In the biblical Book of Ezekiel 30:17, the town appears in the Hebrew form Pibeseth
The Genes Of This Tribe Carry A DNA Of A Third Unknown Human Species
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d to Ancient and Medieval Artifacts Lapis lazuli (they think from Afghanistan) little goddess with short-cropped hair. Pre-dynastic Egypt, Naqada era
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Terracotta figure of Isis-Thermuthis in a shrine. Isis-Thermuthis, with a cobra's body and the torch of Demeter, in a shrine surmounted by a...
The Goddess Isis as magician. Bronze statue from Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt
Limestone sculpture of Horus from Roman Egypt; the falcon's head symbolically identifies the god Horus.
Uatchit Eye goddess
Terracotta Figure of Isis-Aphrodite [Egyptian] (1991.76) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Statuette of Isis-Aphrodite 1st-2nd centuy AD; Roman Egypt
Kneeling Statue of Senenmut. Egypt, from Armant. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, 1478–1458 B.C.E. This innovative statue type, which shows him holding a divine symbol, was offered to Montu, the god of Armant, in petition for Hatshepsut's well-being and his own eternal reward. +84 bo
A strange pharaoh - This statue of the pre-dynastic period may be the first known depiction of a pharaoh. At the time of Nagada (the name of a discovery at the site of Upper Egypt), around 4000 BC. This statue was found in Gebelein, south of Luxor.
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Enormous statues, golden jewellery and hieroglyphic tablets reclaimed from the sunken settlements of Heracleion and Canopus will be put on display at the British Museum in an exhibition next summer.
Statue of a seated lion from Nekhen ( Hierakonpolis ) Old Kingdom c.2250 BC. Werner Forman Archive/ Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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Male god. Period: New Kingdom. Dynasty: Dynasty 18. Reign: reign of Amenhotep III. Date: ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Geography: Country of Origin Egypt. Medium: Granodiorite.
Isis and Wepwawet, god of Asyut Date: ca. 1279–1213 B.C. Asyut (Assiut, Siut; Lykopolis), Tomb of Siese, Khashaba Accession Number: 17.2.5
Isis ( Aset in Egyptian) was originally a Goddess from Nubia and was adopted into Egyptian belief. Her name literally means female of throne, Queen of the throne. Wife and sister to Asar ( Osiris) and mother of Horus. By Emhotep Richards
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Khonsou, mèche sur le côté (marque de l'enfance), fils d'Amon et de Mout
Khonsu -the Ancient Egyptian god of the Moon. His name means "traveller", and this may relate to the nightly travel of the moon across the sky. Along with Thoth he marked the passage of time.
Wooden Figure of the God Osiris -- Belonged to Anhai, a woman from a powerful priestly family who died in about 1100 BCE -- Belonging to the British Museum.
Egyptian God of knowledge Djehuti
Seshat (Sesha, Sesheta) was the goddess of writing and record whose name means "the one who writes." She was the patroness of all types of writing. She was also the "mistress of the house of books" and that is why she watched on libraries temples which she had designed the plans.Elle also bore the title "mistress of the house architects "because it was closely linked to ritual cord (" pedj shes ") that was used to define the location of a temple at its foundation.
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE BES. LATE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD TO ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D. 6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) high. Bes was especially associated with the protection of children, pregnant women and those giving birth. I Christie’s
Statuette du dieu Ptah. Il est représenté debout tenant le sceptre ouas dont la tête de Seth est restée intacte. La base est inscrite de hiéroglyphes sur ses quatre faces. Bronze à patine marron lisse. Les yeux portent les traces d'incrustation d'or ou d'argent. Égypte, Basse Époque, 664-332 av. J.-C., probablement saïte. H.: 13,5 cm. Un exemplaire similaire au Musée du Louvre (n°
Wooden coffin with grain mummy of Osiris (made of wax, clay, and barley). Hellenistic Period (Ptolemaic Dynasty).330 B.C.–30 B.C. Museum of Fine Arts,Boston.
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Statue of the god Amun and his consort goddess Mut (schist). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1292-1189 BCE. Now in the Louvre.
King Ramses II (1279-1213 BC) with the God Amun and Mut God, red granite temple of Amun at Thebes.
Ptah and Sekhmet Ancient Egypt. Late Period, XXVIth Dynasty (?). 7th - 6th century BC
Statuette du dieu Ptah. Il est représenté debout tenant le sceptre ouas dont la tête de Seth est restée intacte. La base est inscrite de hiéroglyphes sur ses quatre faces. Bronze à patine marron lisse. Les yeux portent les traces d'incrustation d'or ou d'argent. Égypte, Basse Époque, 664-332 av. J.-C., probablement saïte. H.: 13,5 cm. Un exemplaire similaire au Musée du Louvre
Greywacke statue of Isis. Late Period. 26th dynasty, c. 664-525 B.C. | Christie's
Statuette of Isis nursing Horus Period: Late Period–Ptolemaic Period Date: 664–30 B.C. Geography: Egypt
Statue of Ptah; Made of Bronze and Gold; 26th Dynasty; This masterpiece statuette depicts standing Path, the main deity of Tebas. His body is enveloped by a tightly fitting robe leaving exposed only his hands with bracelets on wrists holding a was-scepter and an ankh-sign; he wears a scull-cap, a broad collar and a pleated artificial beard. The eyes, collar, bracelets, beard and the eye and the ear of the finial of the scepter are inlayed with gold.
Egyptian Statuette of Osiris, Saite Period, Dynasty 26 (
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Apis Carrying The Mummy. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. 25th Dynasty And Contemporaries. Separated from the mummy-shaped coffin of which it once formed the footboard, the board now appears to have been created as an independent work of art: a lively depiction of a bull with black spots, carrying a mummy on its back. According to a myth, the sacred Apis bull carried the corpse of Osiris for Horus.
Statue of God Osiris
Pharaoh Akhenaton and his family worshiping the Sun God Aten.
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Статуэтка Хапи - бога приливов Нила и покровителя урожая в древнем Египте | Statue of hapi-the God of the Nile tides and the patron of the harvest in ancient Egypt
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Tukular , I accidentally deleted Baal Hamon post, was going to move it for being off topic but then noticed it was Mena's own photo apparently (?)
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Na sweat it wasposed 2 b n Nass thread anyway
Shippers "lost" 9/10ths of my library 16 yrs ago I no longer own the book Memory is always colored I think either Canaan(ite), Phoenicia, or the like was in the title Don't think it was a TimeLife book but from a publisher of "archaeology" books as were out 30 and more yrs ago
What struck me were the hair contrast deity vs spinxes and deity's facial features vs Lebanese or Tunisian stereotype
quote:Originally posted by mena7: Maat, goddess of order, truth, and justice The heart of a deceased person was weighed against the feather of Maat during judgment in the underworld. Third Intermediate Period, ca. 800–700 BCE From Khartoum, Sudan Gold and lapis lazuli The Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Maât est, dans la mythologie égyptienne, la déesse de l'ordre, de la solidarité, de l'équilibre du monde, de l'équité, de la paix, de la vérité et de la justice. Elle est l'antithèse de l'isfet (le chaos, l'injustice, le désordre social). Maât est toujours anthropomorphe, comme la plupart des concepts abstraits personnifiés : c'est une femme, la tête surmontée d'une plume, en général assise sur ses talons, ou debout.
Isis Maat, the Winged Egyptian Goddess of Truth, Justice and Harmony. 19th Dynasty. Tomb of pharaoh Siptah (reign as a child 1197 – 1191 BC). Valley of the Kings. Western Thebes. Egypt 1y
Egyptian heart scarab (1492-1473 BC) - funerary piece inscribed with part of the Book of the Dead
Ma’at’s 42 - The Answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything - For more than two millennia prior to the Ten Commandments, there were forty-two rules, throughout Egypt, where Moses and the Israelite's lived. The Forty-Two Principles of Ma’at. Many scholars believe that this is the origin for the majority of the “Biblical commandments” as these were common laws under which all people throughout Egypt lived.
Maat or ma'at was the ancient Egyptian concept of truth, balance, order, law, morality, and justice. Maat was also personified as a goddess regulating the stars, seasons, and the actions of both mortals and the deities.
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Need a bit of clarification. You have 2 different purported slices of Ma'at posted.
One is 42 ideals - seemingly a Facebook graphic, and the other is 42 negative "I have not" declarations. They are 2 different things. Exactly which is the actual "Ma'at 42?" And from what scholarly sources do you get these besides Facebook?
Ma’at’s 42 - The Answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything - For more than two millennia prior to the Ten Commandments, there were forty-two rules, throughout Egypt, where Moses and the Israelite's lived. The Forty-Two Principles of Ma’at. Many scholars believe that this is the origin for the majority of the “Biblical commandments” as these were common laws under which all people throughout Egypt lived.
^^Also needs clarification. What credible scholarship says the Ma'at 42 (pick one version or both above) are the origin of the 10 Commandments?
Also what scholarly source says that the 42 rules were in effect throughout Egypt for 2000 years before Moses and his Hebrew peeps came along?
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