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This limestone statue of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten is not finished. The surface is still rough and there are remnants of red and black preliminary drawings. Akhenaten wears the blue crown of Egypt and holds a sacrificial plate. Purchased...

This is a detail of a large limestone relief (showing the great royal hunting scene of the Egyptian pharaoh Sahure). Here, Sahure wears a knee-length kilt. From the Valley-Temple, Pyramid Complex of Sahure at Abusir, Egypt. Old Kingdom, 5th...

Seated statue of Amenhotep-user (the doorkeeper of Amun) and his wife, Ta-net-wadj. Their daughter and son are depicted on the lower part, flanking them. Quartzite. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep II, 1428-1397 BCE. From Thebes...

Standing-striding statue of Per-her-nefret, foremost of the lands of the king. Wood. Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, 3350-3300 BCE. From Fayum, Kafr Ammar (Tarkhan), Egypt. It is on display at the Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany.

A seated man is flanked by his son and daughter. Granite. From Western Thebes, Egypt. Middle Kingdom, 13th Dynasty, c. 1900 BCE. It is on display at the Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany.

Seated figure of the Egyptian governor Hori with an inscription of a prayer to the god Ptah-Soker-Osiris. Basalt. Middle Kingdom, 13th Dynasty, 1750-1700 BCE. From Egypt, precise provenance unknown. It is on display at the Neues Museum...

The hieratic script on this ostracon mentions the 43rd year of the reign of Thutmose III. A group of workers was sent to the quarry for the building materials of a temple, under the supervision of a man named Sen-Djehuti. Limestone. From...

Seated figure of Men-techenu, the fanbearer of the pharaoh. Grano-diorite. From Thebes, Karnak, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose III/Amenhotep II, 1479-1397 BCE. It is on display at the Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany.

Sobek-hotep was the chief of the treasury during the reign of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep II. Granite. From Faiyum, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, 1428-1397 BCE. It is on display at the Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany.

Seated figure of Maya. He was the a governor and chief of the priests in the 10th District of Egypt, who was appointed by Thutmose III (the birth and throne cartouches of Thutmose III appear on the right shoulder). He wears the "gold of honor"...