Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Seth

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Seth
New Kingdom, 19th–20th Dynasty (ca. 1295–1070 B.C.)
Unalloyed copper, solid cast, with separate right arm; auriferous-silver and copper-alloy inlays; partially clad with precious metal sheet; altered in antiquity by removal of ears and addition of ram horns and crown with lituus; feet with lower legs, right horn, and reattachment of right arm are 19th-century restorations
Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen (AEIN 614)
Provenance: unknown, said to be from Memphis

Torso of King Pedubaste

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Torso of King Pedubaste
Third Intermediate Period, 23rd Dynasty, reign of Pedubaste (ca. 818–793 B.C.)
Bronze, hollow cast with multiple cavities and iron armature and core supports; yellow- and red-gold inlay and gold-leaf
Lisbon, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian (52)
Provenance: unknown, perhaps Tanis

Roundel with Offering Scene (Fragment from the <i>Menit</i> of Harsiese)

Roundel with Offering Scene (Fragment from the Menit of Harsiese)

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Roundel with Offering Scene (Fragment from the Menit of Harsiese)
Third Intermediate Period–Late Period, 8th– 6th century B.C.
Leaded bronze, solid cast; precious-metal and copper-alloy inlays
Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (23733)

Standing Woman with the Cartouches of King Necho II on Her Arms

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Standing Woman with the Cartouches of King Necho II on Her Arms
Late Period, 26th Dynasty, reign of Necho II (610–595 B.C.)
Silver, solid cast, with separate wig and jewelry
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915 (30.8.93)

Aegis of King Amasis

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Aegis of King Amasis
Late Period, 26th Dynasty, reign of Amasis (570–526 B.C.)
Copper alloy, solid cast
Cairo, Egyptian Museum (T.R. 20/5/26/1 [M696])
Provenance: from Auguste Mariette's excavations at the Serapeum, Saqqara, 1850–64

Nefertem

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Nefertem
Macedonian–Ptolemaic Period (332–30 B.C.)
Silver, solid cast; reassembled from fragments, left calf restored
Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (E 11001)

Amun

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Amun
Third Intermediate Period, early 8th century (ca. 800–770 B.C.)
Gold, solid cast with separate solid-cast arms and beard; separate tripartite loop, attributes, feather crown, and sun disk (loop, crown and disk mostly lost); separate precious metal base (lost)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926 (26.7.1412)

Princess Sobeknakht Nursing her Son

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Princess Sobeknakht Nursing her Son
Middle Kingdom, Mid- to late 13th Dynasty, ca. 1750–1650 B.C.
Arsenical copper, solid cast
Brooklyn Museum, New York; Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, (43.137)

Kneeling King (Probably Tutankhamun)

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Kneeling King (Probably Tutankhamun)
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun (ca. 1336–1327 B.C.)
Black bronze, hollow cast with two core cavities, with noncanonical tangs and separate arms and uraeus (now lost); precious-metal sheet and inlay; copper alloy inlay; eye sockets and eyebrows formerly inlaid
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, (E14295)

Royal or Divine Child

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Royal or Divine Child
New Kingdom, late 18th– early 19th Dynasty (ca. 1336–1250 B.C.) or later
Black copper, solid cast, with partially hollow head, separate black bronze hairlock and separate arms and uraeus (now lost); gold and precious metal inlay, eye sockets formerly inlaid
Musée du Louvre, Paris (E 7735)

Menit

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Menit Inscribed for Sobek-Re
New Kingdom, mid- 18th–20th Dynasty (ca. 1425–1070 B.C.)
Black bronze, hollow cast; auriferous-silver teeth; electrum and gold inlays; gold leaf
Musée du Louvre, Paris (E 11520)

King Pami Kneeling and Offering <i>Nu</i>-Pots

King Pami Kneeling and Offering Nu-Pots

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King Pami Kneeling and Offering Nu-Pots
Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, reign of Pami (ca. 773–767 B.C.)
Leaded copper, hollow cast, with separate arms
British Museum, London (EA 32747)

Upper Part of a Man

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Upper Part of a Man
Third Intermediate Period, 22nd–24th Dynasty (ca. 945–712 B.C.)
Leaded arsenical-copper, hollow cast with iron armature and core supports; separate arms and wig; precious-metal leaf; lower part of figure preserved (EA 71459) but with no direct join
London, British Museum (EA22784)
Provenance: unknown, said to be from Giza

The God's Father of Khonsu, Khonsumeh

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The God's Father of Khonsu, Khonsumeh
Third Intermediate Period, possibly 10th–9th century B.C.
Leaded bronze, hollow cast, with separate arms; precious-metal inlay
Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin (23732)

Bes-image of the god Horus-Ashakhet

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Bes-image of the god Horus-Ashakhet
30th Dynasty–mid-Ptolemaic Period, 4th–2nd century B.C.
Bronze, solid cast, with separate headdress (lost); gold, electrum, auriferous silver, and copper-alloy inlay
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Rogers Fund, 1929 (29.2.3)

Group with King Holding a <i>Shen-ring</i> (?) before an Otter

Group with King Holding a Shen-ring (?) before an Otter

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Group with King Holding a Shen-ring (?) before an Otter
Late Period–early Ptolemaic Period, 7th–3rd century B.C.
Copper alloy, hollow cast (otter and base) with open cavity; solid-cast king
Brooklyn Museum, New York; Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund (76.105.2)

Padiamun

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Padiamun
Third Intermediate Period, middle third of eighth century B.C. (?)
Copper alloy, hollow cast with separate arms (left arm recently recovered and reattached; right arm lost); eye sockets inlaid
Paris, Musée du Louvre (E 10586)
Provenance: unknown, said to be from Memphis