1/ Today a double post for my Tutankhamun 100 day countdown. I had to miss yesterday. First off, the 3 large funerary beds shaped like animal gods. ****. #Egypt #Archaeology #Tutankhamun #history #Archaeology #Tutankhamen #Toutankhamon #Tutancâmon #Tutanchamun #توتعنخآمون Image
2/ The three tall "funerary beds" also called "funerary couches." They were made for the afterlife, not life. They are very tall, & would have been impractical for daily use #ancient #Tutankamón #ツタンカーメン #图坦卡蒙 #圖坦卡蒙 #Τουταγχαμών #тутанхамон #투탕카 Image
3/ Most Egyptian beds were quite short like several from Tutankhamun's tomb we covered earlier in the countdown such as this fine example covered with heavy sheet gold. #Mythology #Art #Gold #Egypt #Archaeology #AncientArt #History #Jewelry #Ancient #AncientEgypt #Egypt #Egypte Image
4/ By contrast, Tutankhamun's 3 animal-shaped funerary couches were more fragile & covered with thin gold leaf over delicate plaster. Image
5/ Egyptian tomb art often shows the deceased's mummy resting on a lion-shaped funerary bed like this one from the tomb of Senedjem at Deir el-Bahari with Anubis attending to the deceased. Image
6/ One of Tutakhamun's funerary couches was lion shaped. 2 lion images made up the bed frame, with the platform between & resting on a black wooden base frame. The lions represent the goddess Mehet, an aspect of Isis who protected her husband Osiris, lord of the Underworld Image
7/ The marvelous piece has elegant lion's heads with inlaid eyes & blue glass eye markings & noses Image
8/ Another view of a lion head Image
9/ A second couch resembles a cow goddess with the solar disk between her horns. Its gilded body has trefoil spots of dark blue glass imitating lapis lazuli. It represents the goddess Mehet-Weret, "the Great Flood," an aspect of the goddess Hathor associated with the afterlife Image
10/ Close up views of one of the cow's heads ImageImage
11/ Another view of the cow's heads Image
12/ the nearer cow is covered with reddish gold. Image
13/ The 3rd couch depicted the goddess Ammut, whose body was a composite of hippopotamus, lion & crocodile. Some of the gilding has discolored to black on the legs Image
14/ The hippo heads wear a wig & their toungues & teeth are ivory Image
15/ Another view of the head with peg like teeth & short tusks of a female hippo Image
16/ Another ritual funerary bed was placed in Tutankhamun's quartzite sarcophagus & supported his heavy set of coffins. It has much shorter legs to fit inside the sarcophagus. After supporting the weight of the coffins for 3400 years it is bowed. Image

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Oct 18
2/ Tutankhamun's mummy was protected with elaborate sets of broad collars of gold foil & inlaid gold, shaped like falcons, vultures, & cobras.
3/ We looked at the gold foil examples early in the countdown. Today the more elaborate inaid collars #Mythology #Art #Gold #Egypt #Archaeology #AncientArt #History #Jewelry #Ancient #AncientEgypt
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2/ A pair of gilded wood statues of Tutankhamun on the back of a leopard were found in the treasury chamber enclosed in a shrine & wrapped in linen. Image
3/ These leopard statues were traditional tomb equipment for New Kingdom pharaohs. Tutankhamun's are the most beautiful and complete examples ever found. Image
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2/ Egyptian faience was a kind of glazed pottery, often in a range of blue & blue-green shades. The shiny surface was even compared favorably to gold. Dozens of faience objects were found in Tutankhamun's tomb including ritual vessels. Image
3/ Ritual vessels were used to pour libations of water & wine. Two common shapes were the tall, slender "Hes-vase" & the squat "Nemset-jar". Both vessels can appear with or without a spout. Egypt #Archaeology #AncientArt #History #Jewelry #Ancient #AncientEgypt
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2/ This marvelous gilded wood statue of a falcon with blue glass eye markings has a surprising function. #Mythology #Art #Gold #Egypt #Archaeology #AncientArt #History #Jewelry #Ancient #AncientEgypt
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3/ It was attached to the pole of Tutankhamun's golden state chariot. The solar disk would have appeared behind the head of the king's horses as in this idealized scene of Ramesses II's chariot. #이집트 #Египет #Єгипет #埃及 #埃及 #مصر Image
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