Goddess with a vulture crown, fragment of a limestone relief
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 Fragment of a limestone relief - goddess with a vulture crown
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| material | limestone |
| Dimensions | H. 45.5 cm; W. 31.5 cm; T. 7.5 cm; |
| origin | probably Thebes |
| time | New kingdom |
| place | Hildesheim, RPM 4539 |
In the Egyptian collection of the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim there is a fragment of a limestone relief with a goddess with a vulture crown from the New Kingdom ( 18th Dynasty or 19th Dynasty ).
Location
The place of discovery is probably Thebes and a date in the New Kingdom, probably in the early Ramesside period . The relief was purchased from the estate of a Hamburg doctor who acquired it around 1910 on a trip to Egypt.
description
In the database The Global Egyptian Museum , the relief is described as follows:
“On the irregularly broken relief block, the head of a woman wearing a vulture hood is preserved in profile, turned to the left. This consists of the bellows of a (female) vulture, which was worn over the wig. The horizontal extension of her shoulder line indicates that the woman was holding her right arm raised to hug a person. According to comparable scenes, this can only have been a king. His shoulder is still preserved on the left edge of the picture. The woman is probably a goddess, although theoretically it could also be a queen due to the vulture hood. Her facial features are fine and at the same time distinctive: the eyebrows are long and slightly curved, the eyes large and surrounded by accentuated, long lines of make-up; The slightly curved nose, the small mouth and the protruding chin give the profile clarity and the face an energetic expression. The upper edge of a wide collar can still be seen on the neck. "
The relief section is too small to allow a reliable reconstruction of the scene. “However, it is very likely that it is a representation of a king in the embrace of a goddess. Parallels to this are well documented from royal tombs and temples of the 19th dynasty. The vulture hood most likely points to the goddess Mut , the partner of the imperial god Amun-Re of Thebes. "
literature
- Arne Eggebrecht , Bettina Schmitz (ed.): Nofret - The beautiful. The woman in ancient Egypt; "Truth" and Reality. Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim / von Zabern, Hildesheim / Mainz 1985, ISBN 3-8053-0858-2 , cat.-no. 159.
- Hans Kayser : The Egyptian antiquities in the Roemer-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim . Cramm de Gruyter, Hildesheim / Hamburg 1966, p. 69 and Fig. 45.
- Wilfried Seipel (ed.): Pictures for eternity. 3000 years of Egyptian art . Stadler, Konstanz 1983, ISBN 978-3-7977-0105-3 , pp. 114-115.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim: Inventory number: PM 4539
- ↑ Entry by Bettina Schmitz et al. in: "The global Egyptian Museum" (as of May 28, 2004)