Ancient Egyptian Statues

Remarkable ancient Egyptian sculptures showcasing detailed craftsmanship, portraying figures of priests and royalty in stoic postures.

Funerary coffin for the mummy of the priest Hornedjitef. From Thebes, Egypt, Early Ptolemaic Period, 3rd century BC

Akhenaten. Painted limestone. Akhenaten meaning living spirit of Aten) known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC. He is especially noted for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism and introducing worship centered on the Aten,

Artwork of the Pharaohs, the Grand Egyptian Museum, Grand Egyptian Museum, GEM, Giza, Cairo, Egypt

Head of a Man. Egypt, 26th - 30th Dynasty (664 - 343 BCE). Sculpture. Diorite

Granite bust of the ancient Egyptian goddess Sekhmet. 18th Dynasty reign of , regnat d'Amenhotep III (13912-1353 BC)

Statue of Nefertiti or Akhenaten 1350 BC, found in the Precinct of the Aten at Karnak. Sandstone; 18th Dynasty, Reign of Akhenaten (c. 1351-1334 BC). Part of a statue which was one of a series of colossi that once lined a colonnade in the Aten temple, erected by Akhenaten at the beginning of his reign at Kamak.

ARTE MESOPOTAMICO. SUMERIO. Escultura de GUDEA, príncipe, patesi o ensi de Lagash. (Hacia a. C 2120). Escultura realizada en diorita, llamada la"colosal". Dedicada a la diosa Ningirsu. Tello, antigua ciudad de Girsú. (Irak). Museo del Louvre. París. Francia.

18th Dynasty Egyptian dyad of man and wife. Made of limestone and dated approximately 1350 BC.

Greco-Roman; Roman-Egyptian mummy with mask for a girl, circa 1st century BC

Terracotta statuette of a goddess. Artist: Unknown

Upper part of an Egyptian coffin lid. Limestone. 26th Dynasty (664-525 BC). the use of anthropoid coffins became widespread. This fragment shows the part corresponding to the deceased personís face

Bust Of A Man C.30 BC Egyptian Art(- ) Sculpture Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, (Agyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung), Berlin

Luxor, Karnak Temple, Statue of Amun Ra in the temple complex in Karnak, Africa, Upper Egypt, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Pre-Columbian era. Mesoamerica. Clay jaguar from Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Mexico. 200BC-600AD. American Museum of Natural History. Ny.

Statue of Ramses II in summer sun sunshine Karnak Temple Luxor Egypt Africa Karnak Temple is the largest temple complex ever built and was gradually enlarged by successive pharoahs over a thirteen hundred year period

Pre-Colombian period. Huastec civilization. Goddess. Stone sculpture. Mexico, 900-1521 AD. British Museum. London, England, United Kingdom.

Egyptian block statue of a scribe called Huy. Limestone. 19th Dynasty (1307-1196 BC).

mask of Tutenchamun

Official and his wife. Painted limestone. 19th-20th Dynasty. C. 1300-1800 BC. Origin unknown. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Egyptian painted plaster cartonnage mask of a woman Egyptian painted plaster cartonnage mask of a woman, Roman period AD 100-120, British museum, London, England, Great Britain Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 21633123

Sculpture of wife of General Horemheb from ancient Egypt. Dated 1550 BCE

Clay funerary pots richly decorated with relief patterns. Dated 16th Century

Bust of Nefertiti ca. 1355 BCE Tuthmosis (flourished ca. 1340 BCE Egyptian) Limestone Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, (Agyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung), Berlin, Germany

Sculpture of winged human headed lion. Assyrian (circa 865-860 BC) from Nimrud. A protective spirit which guarded a door in the North-West Palace. Part of a pair.

Head of a Ruler. Arsenical copper sculpture, possibly Iranian. Circa 2300-2000 BC. Probably displayed in a temple of some sort.

Faience Shabit of King Senkamanisken 623 B.C.

Ivory and gold head of man, possibly Apollo

UK, England, London, British Museum, Egyptian Room, Display of Egyptian Mummy

Male head, Brass, Udo, Nigeria, 16th century. In the 16th century the city of Udo made an attempt to take over the Benin Empire and, as a mark of Independence, began casting its own brass heads.

Sphinx head, sculpture

EGYPT, NILE RIVER, NEAR DENDERA, TEMPLE OF HATHOR, CARVING OF HATHOR

The mask of Tutankhamun is a gold mask of the 18th-dynasty ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun (reigned 1334-1325 BC). It was discovered by Howard Carter in 1925 in tomb KV62 in the Valley of the Kings, and is now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The death mask is one of the best-known works of art in the world and a prominent symbol of ancient Egypt

Head of a making Egyptian. From a hard, dark rock with a slight green color engraving, the semi-life-sized head of a man is worked. He once belonged to a statue, probably standing and with a back pillar, recorded in the information recorded. The head is aborted in the upper area of the neck, but otherwise completely. The hair of the left side are opened up to half the height of the ear. The right eyebrow is damaged, the nose and the lower part of the beard attached on the chin are broken off. The man carries a wig on her head, which runs out to the sides and at the back of the head in a thick hair mass. The hair is structured by fine, over the forehead horizontally parallel Ritzlien, which bend to the sides perpendicular and emphasize the contour of the head in particular. The precisely crafted ears are pushed slightly forward through the wig. In addition to the wig, the man carries a braided beard. That this is an attached beard show each two to the chutlets Ritzlien, which connect

Egypt, Luxor Museum, Akhenaten statue, Amarna, Pharaohs of the Sun

Museo de Luxor.

Granite statue of Nofret, queen of Senwosret II, discovered at Tanis, Egypt. The elegant artistic style of the Middle Kingdom is apparent in the delicate rendering of Nofret s necklace, which shows two vulture goddesses supporting the cartouche of Senwosret II. Note also her distinctive wig, which identifies with the goddess Hathor. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, Senwosret , ca. 1887-1878 BC

Stone Figurine of The inspector and his wife Raherka Meresankh 2530 B.C. Egyptian

Hawk limestone statue protecting King Nectanebo II (360-343 BC)

Sculpture Progresso Mexico Copyright: xMadhusudanxTawde/DinodiaxPhotox

Beth Shean a statue of Ramses III from 12th century BC

British Museum, this is an inner sarcophagus which was placed inside a larger granite box for burial.

Colossus of Ramses II in front of date palm, precinct of Amun, Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt.

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Human-headed winged lion (lamassu). 883-859 BC. Neo-Assyrian. Reign of Ashurnasirpal. Nimrud (ancient Kalhu). British Museum. London.

EGYPT, NILE RIVER, NEAR DENDERA, TEMPLE OF HATHOR, CARVING OF HATHOR

Statue of Ramesses II in Luxor, Egypt

Italy, Piedmont, Turin, Egyptian Museum

Illustration of Senseneb, mother of Pharaoh Thutmose I of the early New Kingdom

Limestone male figure. Cypriot, Archaic. Last quarter of the 6th century BC. Temple at Golgoi. Detail head. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ny. Usa.

Coffin of Lady Tashat, 945-712 BCE, 67 in. (170.2 cm), Polychromed wood, Egypt, 11th-8th century BCE

Schist statue of goddess Tueris, from chapel of Osiris Nebdjet at Karnak

Colossal statue of Amenhotep III and Tiyi

Egyptian domestic bliss- the British Museum

Karnak, Egypt, Africa Statue in Granite representing Sekhmet , 1914 - Egypt - Auguste Léon - (January -February) (French - Karnak , Egypte , Afrique Statue en granit représentant Sekhmet). Statue, sacred animal, temple, archaeological vestige, sculpture, supernatural, Egyptian polytheism, Animal, housing , architecture, art, human beings, religion, Egypt, Karnak, god mout other form

Sarcophagus of Sutymes, Interior decoration depicting winged goddess Nut receiving the deceased with open arms, Late Period

ANTIQUARIAN EXCAVATIONS IN EGYPT, 1886: ANOTHER RECENTLY DISCOVERED STATUE OF RAMSES II. AT LUXOR

Rishi coffin of the Lady Rini. Dimensions: l. 190 cm (74 13/16 in); w. 50 cm (19 11/16 in); h. 50 cm (19 11/16 in). Dynasty: Dynasty 17. Date: ca. 1640-1550 B.C..Rishi coffins like this one are characterized by the feather pattern painted on their lids and by their wedge-shaped faces. They are unique to Thebes in Dynasty 17 and early Dynasty 18. This example is very similar to 12.181.301, which was probably made in the same workshop. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Emilia-Romagna Bologna Bologna Museo Civico Archeologico Sale III, IV, V3. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Specific Location: Sale III, IV, V (Egyptian antiquities) Owner: Museo Civico Archeologico Antiquities: III: basalt sculptural fragments; reliefs from the tomb of Horemheb; funerary stele; dynasties XVIII, XIX, XX, Ptolomeic dynasty reliefs, generally in limestone. IV: XVIII, XIX dynasty sculptures in granite, limestone, sarcophagi, statuette in basalt, statuette in wood, statuettes in bronze, statuette faience, mummy mask: V: basalt sculptures of Horus, Sekhmet, limestone stele (Antiq. count: 202); Republican portrait sculpture, Republican cippi with portrait bust, cippus with portraits (single and group), cippi with inscriptions from all periods, architectural fragments, basin with inscription, torso fragment of cuirassed figure of the 1st century AD (Nero) (Antiq. count: 185); disk lamps from the late republic to 6th century, with erotes, animals, erotica, mythological scenes, menorah, p

Altägyptischer Frauenkopf mit Lotusblüten, 19. Dynastie, Theben, Modegeschichte, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. J...

Engravings of Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Azerbaijan

Luxor, Ramesses II.. 1860 - 1929. Photographs, Portraits. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Ramses II, King of Egypt , Statues, Luxor (Egypt), Colossi

Low angle view of a statue, The Memory Sculpture, Aurora, Illinois, USA

Carved Ivory Mask 16th Century A.D. Elephant ivory and Bronze. Benin

Plaque depicting a goddess, king on opposite side 400-200 B.C. Late Period-Ptolemaic Period Small Late Period and Ptolemaic reliefs or sculptures that depict a subject in a partial or unfinished way but are themselves finished objects constitute a special class of object. Guidelines like those for artists are often prominently exhibited as part of the object, although, in fact, many instances can be noted where the object simply could not serve as a suitable model for a traditional formal Egyptian representation. Personifications of kingship, figures that may represent the now emerging demigods Imhotep and Amenhotep Son of Hapu, and popular gods like Harpokrates or Isis, are heavily represented within the corpus. Taken together, the figures represented and the other features indicate the reliefs and sculptures of this class, sometimes called by Egyptologists "sculptors models / votives," were the material of a donation practice, perhaps connected with the prolific temple building of t

Detail of wall painting from Egyptian temple salvaged from Nubian land flooded by Lake Nasser, National Museum, Khartoum, Sudan, Africa

Babylonian wall tiles, Babylon, Iraq, Middle East

Bronze head possibly of king Sargon, from Nineveh, Iraq

Detail of an original Egyptian sarcophagus

The image depicts a lithographic representation of Thebes, Egypt, produced by David Roberts between 1842 and 1849. The artwork highlights aspects of the extinct city, showcasing its colossi and hieroglyphics. Published in London by F.G. Moon, this piece is part of a publication on description and travel in the Middle East. It is composed of six volumes in four parts, featuring illustrations, maps, and plates, some of which are colored, with the dimensions of the publication being 32 x 48.5 cm

Ibsamboul, Sculptures de l'Entrée du Spéos de Phrè, Nubie. Maxime Du Camp; French, 1822-1894. Date: 1849-1851. Dimensions: 21.2 × 16 cm (image/paper); 43.1 × 30.1 cm (album page). Salted paper print, plate 105 from the album "Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie" (1852). Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Africa, Egypt, Luxor. Colossi of Memnon; one of two twin statues of Amenhotep III; West Bank

WH8G57 Head of Queen Tiye (c.1398 BC-1338 BC) in inlaid ebony. Tutankhamen by Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, page 135. .

Mummy inside the Coffin of Djedjehutyiuefankh, from the Great temple at Deir el Bahri, Thebes; Egypt. Dated to 25th Dynasty circa 770-712 BC

Gold Treasure from Pharaoh Psusennes, The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, EMC, Cairo, Egypt

Model of seated scribe. 5th Dynasty c2750 BC. Cairo Museum, Egypt

Egypt, Thebes, Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Tutankhamon, coffin of Pharaoh Osiris, from Tutankhamon period

Joseph In His Youth James J. Tissot (1836-1902/French) Jewish Museum, New York

Column with palmiform capital (c. 690-664 BC) from the Temple of Taharqa, pharaoh of the 25th Dynasty, in Kawa, Ancient Egypt.

Statue of Merenptah, Luxor Museum, Luxor, Thebes, Egypt, Luxor, Thebes, Egypt, Africa

bust of pharaoh Echnaton (Akhenaten, aka Amenhotep IV) around black background . cloes up

bust of pharaoh Echnaton (Akhenaten, aka Amenhotep IV) around black background . cloes up

Detail of one of the colossal statues at the entrance to the Abu Simbel site, engraving by Bigant, Nubia, Egypt, from Antiquites de la Nubie, ou Monumens inedits des bords du Nil (Antiquities of Nubia or Unknown monuments on the Nile), Plate 59, by Francois-Christian Gau, 1822, Paris.

sculpture of the Lady Chepés, late period of Egypt, XXVI dynasty, 664-525 BC. bronze, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, ("Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian"), Lisbon, Portugal.

serapeo reconstruction of Villa Adriana, Tivoli, Gregorian Egyptian Museumn Musei Vaticani, State of the Vatican City, Roma, Lazio, Italia.

Alabaster canobe from ancient Egypt, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Wooden sculpture

Nefertiti bust_(right)

Abou Simbel, Nubia. Francis Frith; English, 1822-1898. Date: 1857. Dimensions: 22 × 15.6 cm (image/paper); 42.6 × 29.1 cm (album page). Albumen print, pl. 15 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858). Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Exhibit in the pre-Hispanic display of the Museum of Anthropology.

Statues outside a museum, Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, Cairo, Egypt

Group statue portraying Rahotep and Nofret, painted limestone from Meidum

Huge head of Sphinx, seen from the front. It is just in front of the second pyramid of Memphis, Egypt. Engraving after F L Norden

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