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When complete, this scene showed Osorkon offering a clepsydra (water clock) to the snake goddess Wadjyt. The King wears the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. Osorkon's wife, queen Karoma, stands by his side. She wears a plumed crown...

A pharaoh was known primarily by his throne name. This was traditionally a statement about his divine father, the sun-god Ra, so all cartouches with throne names display a sun-god at the top. A king's birth name was the only name he had already...

Statue of Tutankhamun, from the temple of Amun-Ra at Thebes, Karnak, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, c. 1336-1327 BCE. The king presents an abundance of offerings, including lotus blossoms, bunches of grapes, pomegranates, and ducks hung by their...

Statue of Amenhotep III, declares the king's might by representing him as a lion, from Napata (Gebel Barkal, Sudan), originally from Soleb (Sudan), 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, 1390-1352 BCE. Pharaohs were often shown as a...

This head was part of a statue which was placed in a temple. No inscription survives to identify the king, but stylistic details point to Nectanebo I or II, the principal kings of Egypt's last native Dynasty. The king's nose and protective...

Unfinished limestone sculpture of Horemheb and his wife from the tomb of Horemheb at Saqqara, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, probably the reign of Ay, c. 1327-1323 BCE. The sculpture bears no inscription, and when it was acquired by the British...

Sisobek (Sasobek) assumes the guise and resurective powers of Osiris. He holds the djed (right) and tit (left), symbols of performance and life linked to Osiris and Isis. The winged sky goddess Nut enables his rebirth, just as she daily gave...

The supreme god Amun represented here as a ram, protects a figure of king Taharqo (Taharqa; Biblical Tirhakah or Tirhaqah). The ruler's forehead of two cobras instead of one, an assertion of sovereignty over both his native Kush and Egypt...

Greek sphinx that may once have guarded the tomb of a Greek inhabitant in Egypt. Roman Egypt, 2nd century CE. In Greek mythology, the sphinx was a monster with the head of a woman, a bird's wings, the body of a lion, and often a serpent's...

A gold pendant made by the Tairona people, representing a shaman holding two sceptres, wearing a large nasal ornament and headgear with two toucans. Lost-wax cast gold with false filigree decoration, 10th-15th century CE, Colombia. (Louvre...