Naquada I-II; discovered in 1900–1901
National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography “Luigi Pigorini”
Rome, Italy
This ivory tooth-shaped amulet, decorated with a series of diagonal parallel lines, comes from the excavations conducted between 1900-1901 by Randall-MacIver and by the archaeologist Luigi Pigorini. It was donated to the \'Museo Preistorico Etnografico e Kircheriano\' by Pigorini himself, director of the museum.
Naquada I; acquired in 1901
National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography “Luigi Pigorini”
Rome, Italy
3800–3500 BC; bought by Mihail C. Sutu in 1870
National History Museum of Romania
Bucharest, Romania
Naquada II; excavated in 1902
National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography “Luigi Pigorini”
Rome, Italy
The cosmetic palette in slate is fish-shaped, as many other objects found in both men and women’s graves in Egypt. It is linked to the practise of painting bodies with colors, probably for magical belief. The palette comes from a tomb excavated by Randall-MacIver in 1902, who subsequently donated it to the Pigorini Museum in Rome. Along with the palette were found three scale models of ships in clay.
Second Dynasty; purchased in 1904
National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography “Luigi Pigorini”
Rome, Italy
Probably used to keep cosmetics, the artwork is part of the purchases bought by Roberto Paribeni (later Soprintendente alle antichità di Roma e Lazio, 1928–1933) in 1904 from Ghirghis, the antiquities dealer in Quena, on behalf of \'Museo Preistorico ed Etnografico\' in Rome.
4th Dyn. c. 2600 BC; acquired by Hermann Junker during his excavation in Giza 1912–1929
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Egyptian Collection
Vienna, Austria
Funeral statue of Lady Khent and her youngest child
c. 2300 BC; acquired by Hermann Junker during his excavation in Giza 1912–1929
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Egyptian Collection
Vienna, Austria
Head of a sphinx of Sesostris III
12th Dyn. Sesostris III, 1878-1843 BC; brought to Vienna in 1893
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Egyptian Collection
Vienna, Austria
New Kingdom (16th–11th century BC); discovered in 1824
National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography “Luigi Pigorini”
Rome, Italy
The disk in green glass with a golden square foil is considered of remarkable interest because of its label, attributed to Ippolito Rosellini, which proves that the relic was found inside a tomb in Thebes. Rosellini, one of the main figure of the Franco-Tuscan expedition in Egypt (cfr.ITEM 2) wrote on it \'Disco di vetro con entro una lamina d\'oro. Trovato in una tomba a Tebe, Egitto, da I. Rosellini 1824 -dono di Elenina Ox Sicard, dicembre 1902\'. The relic was later acquired by Enrico Hillyer Giglioli, whose collection was then acquired by the Pigorini Museum in 1913.
Reverent Baboon with Pharaoh figure
18th Dyn. Amenophis II, 1454-1419 BC; acquired in 1865/66
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Egyptian Collection
Vienna, Austria
19th Dynasty (14th–13th centuries BC); found in 1828–29
Egyptian Museum
Florence, Italy
C14th BC; acquisition date: 1821
The British Museum
London, United Kingdom
19th Dynasty; donated to the British Museum in 1817
The British Museum
London, United Kingdom
Mummy board and inner coffin for Nes-pauti-taui
21st Dyn, c. 1000 BC; excavated in 1891
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Egyptian Collection
Vienna, Austria
22nd dynasty (c. 950–730 BC); beginning of the 20th century
National Museum of Romanian History
Bucharest, Romania
8thC BC; Exavacted 1911–13
The British Museum
London, United Kingdom
721–705 BC (reign of Sargon II); discovered in 1851–1854
National Museum of Romanian History
Bucharest, Romania
7th century BC; acquisition date: 1825
The British Museum
London, United Kingdom