EGYPTIAN MUSEUM - 6


Khufu

Small ivory statue of King Khufu (Cheops), builder of the largest pyramid at Giza.
Found at Abydos in 1903 during excavations by Flinders Petrie.
Height - 7.5 cm.
Old Kingdom - 4th Dynasty.


Queen Tiye

Part of a statuette of Queen Tiye in green steatite.
(Tiye was the wife of Amenhotep III and mother of Akhenaten.)
Found during 1904 by Flinders Petrie at a temple of the goddess Hathor in the Sinai.
Height - 7.2 cm.
New Kingdom - 18th Dynasty.



Nefertiti 1 Nefertiti 2

Unfinished quartzite head of Nefertiti, the beautiful wife of the heretic king Akhenaten.
A crown would have been attached to the head upon completion.
From excavations at el-Amarna in 1932. Height - 35.5 cm.
New Kingdom - 18th Dynasty.



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