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A mid 2nd Millennium BCE painted limestone stele showing a Syrian mercenary drinking beer. The mercenary;s name is Terura and his wife's name is Arbura. His facial features and dress clearly identify him as a Syrian. While his wife is also...

This is the upper part of the statue of the Nile God Hapy (also rendered as Hapi). Black granite. From Faiyum, Egypt. Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, c. 1800 BCE. It is on display at the Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany.

Mummy portrait from the Tomb of Aline, Hawara. Early Roman Period of Egypt, c. 24 CE. Neues Museum, Berlin. The Tomb of Aline was unearthed in 1892 by the German archaeologist Richard von Kaufmann. A hewn stele carved with a Greek inscription...

These two mummies are identified as Aline's daughters, from the Tomb of Aline, c. 24 CE. The girl on the left is older (4 years old) than the one on the right, who is 2.5 years old (the latter was initially thought to be a boy, not a girl...

This girl, 6 or 7 years old at the time of death, was one of Aline's daughters and was found in the Tomb of Aline at Hawara, Faiyum, Egypt. The mummies of this girl and her father (Aline's husband) were covered with a mummy masks, not with...

This is a mummy mask of Aline's husband. His right hand grasps what appears to be a wreath or garland of rose petals. His arms are wrapped in a toga. The eyebrows are painted (not made of glass) while the eyeballs are made of white and black...

Stucco on linen mummy mask of a woman dating to the early Roman period, beginning of the 1st century CE. The headdress, earrings, two necklaces, rings, and bracelets were prominently imitated. The black curly hair was imitated from dyed flax...

Stucco on linen mummy mask of a woman dating to the early Roman period, 1st century CE. She wears bracelets in the form of snakes, elegant Roman dress, jewelry, and hair. Her complexion is white (unlike the yellow complexion of Egyptians...

Cartonnage, painted, and gilded mummy mask of Pasyg (or Pa-remet-syg; Greek, Promsiko). The mask of Pa-remet-syg is the only one from Meir which mentions the name of the deceased, on the back, in a demotic script. It also mentions the name...

Egyptian aegis with the head of the goddess Hathor. Her headdress is composed of uraei (rearing cobras) beneath a sun-disc and cow's horns. Bronze. From Egypt, precise provenance is unknown. Third Intermediate Period, 26th Dynasty, c. 550...