Made up of four pieces, this inlay is dated to the Ptolemaic Period (304-30 BCE).
It was probably part of the decorative pattern of a box, a piece of furniture, or an item of funerary equipment.
This brightly-colored work (49.61.1-.4) is now in the Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA.
An amulet made of earthenware depicting a cobra wearing the sun disk between two horns, the characteristic headdress of the goddess Hathor. The cobra though is a representation of the protective goddess Wadjet, symbol of Lower Egypt.
The amulet dates back to either the Late Period or the Ptolemaic Period (circa 7th to 1st century BCE).
This object (FGA-ARCH-EG-0173) is now in the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art, Geneva, Switzerland.
Photo Credit: André Longchamp / © Fondation Gandur pour l'Art, Genève.
The chest contained loincloths and other under-garments.
Kha supervised the workforce which constructed royal tombs during the reigns of Amenhotep II, Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III (c. 1425 – 1353 BC) in the mid-Eighteenth Dynasty. Of unknown background, he probably rose to his position through skill and was rewarded by at least one king. He and his wife Merit had three known children. Kha died in his 60s, while Merit died before him, seemingly unexpectedly, in her 20s or 30s.
The undisturbed tomb, TT8, was discovered in February 1906 in excavations led by the Egyptologist Ernesto Schiaparelli on behalf of the Italian Archaeological Mission. The burial chamber contained over 400 items including carefully arranged stools and beds, neatly stacked storage chests of personal belongings, clothing and tools, tables piled with foods such as bread, meats and fruit, and the couple's two large wooden sarcophagi housing their mummies in coffins. All the grave goods are now displayed in the Egyptian Museum in Turin.
This solid cast figure depicts the god Sobek as a plump crocodile sprawled on a hollow shrine shaped plinth.
The details of his scales are carefully incised, his eyes have gold inlays and on his head he wears an 'atef' crown composed of a central tall reed crown with bulbous top (now lost) and sun disc, flanked by ostrich feathers and upreared cobras, all mounted on a pair of twisted ram's horns.