
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.

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.
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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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