List of ancient Egyptian art objects
The list of Egyptian art objects includes art objects found in Egypt that have an article on Wikipedia . The structure is sorted alphabetically according to the names and names the time of creation, the place of origin, the material of manufacture, the dimensions, the museum that owns the art object, where it is cataloged and usually also exhibited, and finally the inventory number.
Objects of art on this list include statues , jewelry, grave goods, weapons, reliefs , steles and similar finds, but no papyri , obelisks , graves or other structures .
Name of the art object | Time of origin | Location | material | Dimensions | Repository | Inventory number | image |
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Anubis Shrine | 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC Chr. | KV62 , Valley of the Kings | Wood, painted and gilded | 118 × 270 × 52 cm | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Cairo JE 61444 | |
Bentresch stele | Late period or Ptolemaic period | Luxor | Sandstone | 227 × 106 × 14 cm | Paris , Louvre | Louvre C 284 | |
Bust of Nefertiti | 18th dynasty , Amarna period | Tell el Amarna | Limestone , stucco | H. 50 cm | Berlin , Egyptian Museum | Berlin 21300 | |
Gold mask of Psusennes I. | 21st dynasty | Tanis | Gold , inlays of glass and lapis lazuli | H. 48 cm | Cairo , Egyptian Museum | Cairo JE 85913 | |
Hippopotamus William | 12th Dynasty , circa 1981–1885 BC Chr. | Mair | Faience | 11.2 x 20 cm | New York , Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York 17.9.1 | |
Hunter palette | Predynasticism , around 3100 BC Chr. | Tell el Amarna | Greywacke | 66.8 x 25.7 cm | Paris, Louvre | Louvre E 11254 | |
Folding altar from Cairo | 18th dynasty, Amarna period | Tell el Amarna | limestone | 43.5 × 39 cm | Cairo , Egyptian Museum | Cairo JE 44865 | |
Dress bust of Tutankhamun | 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC Chr. | KV62 , Valley of the Kings | wood covered with stucco and painted | H. 76.5 cm | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Cairo JE 60722 | |
Head of Amenemhet III. | 12th Dynasty, Amenemhet II | unknown | Greywacke | H. 46 cm | Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek | Copenhagen AEIN 924 | |
Nefertem's head | 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC Chr. | KV62 , Valley of the Kings | wood covered with stucco and painted | H. 30 cm | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Cairo JE 60723 | |
Head of an Egyptian princess | 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC Chr. | Tell el Amarna | silicified sandstone | H. 21 cm | Berlin, Egyptian Museum | Berlin 21223 | |
Head of a female sphinx | 12th Dynasty, Amenemhet II | unknown | slate | 38.9 x 34.9 x 36.7 cm | New York City , Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn Museum 56.85 | |
Head of a Sphinx Sesostris' III. | 12th Dynasty, around 1850 BC Chr. | unknown | Green slate | 21.9 x 33.2 x 32.1 cm | Vienna , Art History Museum | Vienna KHM 5813 | |
Lotus chalice | 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC Chr. | KV62 , Valley of the Kings | alabaster | 18.3 x 28.3 cm | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Cairo JE 67465 | |
Lion ripping off a cow (KHM 8020) | 30th Dynasty, around 350 BC Chr. | unknown | Green slate | 61.5 × 28 cm | Vienna , Art History Museum | Vienna KHM 8020 | |
Knife from the Gebel el-Arak | Naqada IIIa , around 3200 BC Chr. | Gebel el-Arak | Flint , ivory | H. 25.5 cm | Paris, Louvre | Louvre E 11517 | |
Narmer palette | Predynasticism, around 3000 BC Chr. | Hierakonpolis | slate | H. 64 cm | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Cairo JE 14716 | |
Upper part of a statue of King Thutmose III. (KHM 70) | 18th Dynasty, Thutmose III. | unknown, possibly Thebes | Granodiorite | 46.5 x 30.6 x 20.3 cm | Vienna, Art History Museum | Vienna KHM 70 | |
Sacrificial tablet of Iunu | 4th Dynasty , around 2590 BC Chr. | Giza , necropolis | limestone | 39 × 54 × 9.3 cm | Hildesheim, Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum | PM 2145 | |
Ostracon depicting an Egyptian dancer | 19th Dynasty , around 1300 BC Chr. | unknown, perhaps Deir el-Medina | limestone | 10.5 x 16.8 cm | Turin , Museo Egizio | Turin 7052 | |
Relief sketch with the head of Akhenaten | 18th Dynasty, 1350/1340 BC Chr. | Tell el Amarna | limestone | 21 × 21 cm | Berlin, Egyptian Museum | Berlin 21863 | |
Reserve head (KHM 7787) | 4th Dynasty , around 2550 BC Chr. | Giza | limestone | 27.7 x 17.3 cm | Vienna, Art History Museum | Vienna KHM 7787 | |
Coffin mask of the Satdjehuti Satibu | 17th Dynasty , around 1575 BC Chr. | unknown | Sycamore wood | 60.3 x 34 cm | Munich , State Collection of Egyptian Art | Munich ÄS 7163 | |
Black seated statue of Mentuhotep II. | 11th dynasty , Mentuhotep II. | Deir el-Bahari | Sandstone | H. 138 cm | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Cairo JE 36195 | |
Seated statue of Tepemanch | 5th Dynasty , around 2350 BC Chr. | Giza , necropolis | limestone | 45.8 x 16.2 x 27.8 cm | Hildesheim, Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum | PM 12 | |
Standing figure of Nefertiti | 18th Dynasty, early Amarna period | Tell el Amarna | limestone | H. 40 cm | Berlin, Egyptian Museum | Berlin 21263 | |
Statue of the Gebu | 13th Dynasty , around 1750 BC Chr. | Temple of Amun in Karnak | granite | H. 93 cm | Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek | Copenhagen AEIN 27 | |
Statue of King Chephren (JE 10062) | 4th Dynasty , around 2550 BC Chr. | Giza , valley temple of the Chephren pyramid | Diorite | 168 × 57 × 96 cm | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Cairo JE 10062 | |
Statue of the scribe Heti | 5th Dynasty , around 2300 BC Chr. | Giza , necropolis | limestone | 52.1 x 37.3 x 26 cm | Hildesheim, Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum | PM 2407 | |
Group of statues of the god Horus and the king Haremhab | 18th Dynasty, around 1300 BC Chr. | limestone | unknown | 152 × 73.1 × 77 cm | Vienna, Art History Museum | Vienna KHM 8301 | |
Statuette of Cheops | Old Kingdom or 26th Dynasty (unclear) | Abydos | ivory | 7.5 x 2.9 x 2.6 cm | Cairo , Egyptian Museum | Cairo JE 36143 | |
Stele of the Anchefenchon | 25th Dynasty , 680/70 BC Chr. | Deir el-Bahari | Wood, plaster coating | 51.5 × 31 cm | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Cairo A 9422 | |
Princess Satamun's throne | 18th dynasty, time of Amenhotep III. | KV46 , Valley of the Kings | Wood, gold leaf | 78 × 54 × 63 cm | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Cairo JE 95342, CG 51113 | |
Two-dog pallet | Naqada III or II, around 3100 BC Chr. | Hierakonpolis | Light slate | 42.5 × 22 cm | Oxford , Ashmolean Museum | Oxford E 3924 |