A guide to the Egyptian collections in the British MuseumBritish Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
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A guide to the Egyptian collections in the British Museum
British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
Egypt -- Antiquities
The smaller monuments of the XIXth dynasty in the British Museum are
very interesting, and, though the work of the sculptor and engraver
is not so good as that of the XVIIIth dynasty, it is important for
illustrating the methods employed at a time when quantity was more valued
than quality. The inscriptions too are valuable, for they afford much
information on minor points of the Egyptian religion. Among the statues
and stelae of this period may be noted: a finely sculptured relief from
the tomb of =Mes=, a priest of the =KA= (Bay 17, No. =635=); the stele
of =Ȧmen-Rā-mes=, a priest of the statue of King =Mer-en-Ptaḥ= (Bay
20, No. =636=); the painted limestone statues of =Māḥu= and his wife
=Sebta=, fine work (Central Saloon, No. =637=); the granite figure of
=Rui=, high-priest of Ȧmen (Central Saloon, No. =638=); the stele of
Ptaḥ-mes, the comptroller of the grain supply of Egypt (Central Saloon,
No. =642=); the stele of =Pa-ser=, the scribe and master mason of all
Egypt (Central Saloon, No. =643=); the seated figure of =Pa-mer-ȧḥau=,
a commander-in-chief (Central Saloon, No. =644=); the stele of the
superintendent of all the priests and all the gold workers of the Sûdân,
from Wâdî Ḥalfah (Central Saloon, No. =645=); the stele of =Qaḥa=, a
master craftsman, on which are sculptured figures of the Syrian deities
=Kent= and =Reshpu= and =Ānthȧt= (Ȧnaitis), and the Egyptian god Menu,
an important monument (Bay 10, No. =646=; see =Plate XL=); the stele of
the god =Reshpu= (Bay 17, No. =647=); stele of =Ḥeru=, painted with a
scene of the worship of =Kent=, or =Qeṭesh=, =Reshpu= and Menu (Bay 17,
No. =650=); the stele of =Ṭāṭā-āa=, an overseer of scribes (Bay 12, No.
=652=); the granite coffin of a =high-priest of Memphis= (Bay 17, No.
=654=).
[Illustration: PLATE XL.
Sepulchral stele of Qaḥa, sculptured with figures of the foreign deities
Kent, Reshpu, and Ānthȧt, and the Egyptian god Menu.
XIXth dynasty.
[Northern Egyptian Gallery, Bay 10, No. 646.]]
Twentieth Dynasty. From Thebes.
_About_ B.C. 1200.
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