Did religion play the greatest part in Egyptian life or not? The mistaken belief that death and the well-being of the dead overshadowed the existence of the living, is due to the fact that the physical character of the country has preserved for us the cemeteries and the funerary temples better than all the other monuments. The narrow strip of fat black land along the Nile produces generally its three crops a year. It is much too valuable to use as a cemetery. But more than that, it is subject to periodic saturation with water during the inundation, and is, therefore, unsuitable for the burials of a nation which wished to preserve the contents of the graves. On the other hand, the desert, which bounds this fertile strip so closely that a dozen steps will usually carry one from the black land to the gray,–the desert offers a dry preserving soil with absolutely no value to the living. Thus all the funerary monuments were erected on the desert, and except where intentionally destroyed they are preserved to the present day. The palaces, the towns, the farms, and many of the great temples which were erected on the black soil, have been pulled down for building material or buried deep under the steadily rising deposits of the Nile. The tombs of six thousand years of dead have accumulated on the desert edge.
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Aten was a form of the sun God Ra
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Sandstone carving of a female ruler in profile, hands raised to Aten, a sun disk with rays which end in hands. Aten was a form of the sun God Ra. During the reign of Akhenaten, the Aten was made the ‘King’ of the Gods. Another half profile of a female ruler beside her. Two staffs on the lower part. Light earthen patina. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty.
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Egyptian 1570-1342 BC. Measures 10 1/2″ x 9″ $3419.99
December 25, 2008
Ancient Egyptian Statue
Egyptian Ptolemaic Statues
Carved white marble seated scribe resting on a raised base. He wears a full wig and a short kilt. Folds of his flesh shown above his abdomen. Holds a tablet shaped object in each hand resting upon his lap. The hem of his kilt and the front section of the base with incised hieroglyphic inscriptions. Raised eyebrows, small pouting lips and straight narrow nose. Ptolemaic. Egyptian antiquities are authentic and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. Egyptian
305-30 BC. Measures 13 1/2″ x 8″ x 5 1/2″.
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April 14, 2008
Egyptian antiquities
Egyptian antiquities Wall Fragment
Sandstone carving of a scorpion on top of an Egyptian foot. With hieroglyphic symbols. Covered in a light earthen patina. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. Egyptian 1570 – 1342 BC 13 1/2″ x 8″ $3419.99
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Sandstone carving of a ruler in profile. Covered in a light earthen patina. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty Egyptian antiquities are authentic historical relics and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. Egyptian 1570 – 1342 BC 5″ x 4″ $949.99
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