EditorialSmall Child in a Sling, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, second half, ca. 1427?1295 B.C., From Egypt, Glassy faience, H. 2 cm (13/16 in.); 1.5 cm (9/16 in.), This fragment shows a small child being carred in a cloth sling. It was probably part of a figure vase...
EditorialStatuette of the Goddess Taweret, Ptolemaic Period, 332?30 B.C., From Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Qena area, Glassy faience, H. 11 cm (4 5/16 in); W. 3.3 cm (1 5/16 in); D. 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in), In all likelihood, this statuette represents the goddess Ta...
EditorialGlass footed beaker, Mid Imperial, 2nd?3rd century A.D., Roman, Glass; blown, Height: 3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm), Glass, Translucent blue green. Rounded and thickened vertical rim; straight sides tapering downward; integral tubular base ring; kick in center of...
EditorialDrinking Cup, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1479?1425 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Wadi D, Tomb of the 3 Foreign Wives of Thutmose III, Glassy faience, gold, h. 10.2 cm (4 in); diam. 7 cm (2 3/4 in), This jar was probab...
EditorialCowroid Set in a Ring Bezel, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, early, ca. 1492?1473 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Hatnefer and Ramose (below TT 71), coffin III, burial 1b, hands, 1935?36, Gold, glassy faience, L. 1.5 cm (9/...
EditorialClouded bemastistes, Bematistes umbra 1,2, common glassy acraea, Acraea quirina 3,4, and white acraea, Acraea circeis 5,6. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's "Illustrations of Exotic Entomology," Bohn, London, 1837.