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Select artifacts on display from the Penn Museum in Philadelphia
Tumbler (Height: 15.2 cm). The silver and copper alloy electrum tumbler was finely hammered and fluted into 28 ridges. From the Royal Cemetery at Ur (in modern day Iraq), the tomb of Puabi, Ur?s Queen, ca 2500 BCE. (Penn Museum object # B17691)
Vessel in the shape of an ostrich egg (Height: 4.6 cm; Diameter: 13 cm) of gold, lapis lazuli, red limestone, shell, and bitumen; hammered from a single sheet of gold and with geometric mosaics at the top and bottom of the egg. The dazzling array of materials came from trade with neighbors in Afghanistan, Iran, Anatolia, and perhaps Egypt and Nubia. From the Royal Cemetery at Ur (in modern day Iraq) ca 2550 BCE. (Penn Museum object # B16692)
Cast-Gold Bat Effigy Pendant, circa AD 500-900, from Penn Museum?s 1940 expedition to Sitio Conte, Panama. (Height: 2.2 cm, Width: 4.4 cm, Thickness .9 cm) (Penn Museum object number: 40-12-33)
This embossed gold plaque, circa AD 500-900, comes from the Penn Museum Expedition to Sitio Conte, Panama in 1940. (Height: 20.8 cm; Width 20.6 cm) (Penn Museum object # 40-13-3)
This limestone ancient Egyptian funerary stela, used to indicate the location of a tomb, has the particularity of having been shaped like the ankh - the Egyptian symbol for eternal life. Stelae were more typically inscribed with prayers or magic formulae to be recited by visitors to ensure the deceased a pleasant and peaceful afterlife. (Height: 29.5 cm, Width: 25 cm; Diameter: 8 cm) Abydos, Egypt, 1938-1759 BC. Excavated by David Randall-MacIver, Egypt Exploration Fund, 1901. (Penn Museum object # E9952)
Books of the Dead consisted of a group of spells whose primary purpose was to assist the deceased in their journey into the afterlife. No one book contained all of the spells, and while most examples were inscribed on papyrus rolls, spells could also appear on tomb walls, sarcophagi, and funerary stelae. The spells were often accompanied by vignettes; this one depicts the deities Osiris, Thoth, Isis, and Nephthys, as well as other divine figures. Neferrenpet, the owner of this Book of the Dead, was a sculptor who lived in the village of Deir el-Medina during the reign of Ramses II. (Height: 41 cm; Width: 58 cm) 1279-1213 BC, from Thebes, Egypt, gift of the American Exploration Society, 1902. (Penn Museum object # E2775C)
This clay cuneiform tablet, from the site of Nippur in Iraq, 1500-1155 BC, features the first known depiction of a map. (Length: 13 cm; Width: 11 cm; Depth: 3 cm) Excavated by the Babylonian Expedition (Penn Museum object # B13885)
This clay vessel from the Nasca culture in Peru, AD 1-700, depicts a cat-like trophy head entwined in darts or rays. From the Penn Museum expedition by William Farabee, 1922-1923 (Height: 7/6 cm; Width: 14 cm) (Penn Museum object # SA2919)
Select artifacts on display from the Penn Museum in Philadelphia
Tumbler (Height: 15.2 cm). The silver and copper alloy electrum tumbler was finely hammered and fluted into 28 ridges. From the Royal Cemetery at Ur (in modern day Iraq), the tomb of Puabi, Ur?s Queen, ca 2500 BCE. (Penn Museum object # B17691)
Vessel in the shape of an ostrich egg (Height: 4.6 cm; Diameter: 13 cm) of gold, lapis lazuli, red limestone, shell, and bitumen; hammered from a single sheet of gold and with geometric mosaics at the top and bottom of the egg. The dazzling array of materials came from trade with neighbors in Afghanistan, Iran, Anatolia, and perhaps Egypt and Nubia. From the Royal Cemetery at Ur (in modern day Iraq) ca 2550 BCE. (Penn Museum object # B16692)
Cast-Gold Bat Effigy Pendant, circa AD 500-900, from Penn Museum?s 1940 expedition to Sitio Conte, Panama. (Height: 2.2 cm, Width: 4.4 cm, Thickness .9 cm) (Penn Museum object number: 40-12-33)
This embossed gold plaque, circa AD 500-900, comes from the Penn Museum Expedition to Sitio Conte, Panama in 1940. (Height: 20.8 cm; Width 20.6 cm) (Penn Museum object # 40-13-3)
This limestone ancient Egyptian funerary stela, used to indicate the location of a tomb, has the particularity of having been shaped like the ankh - the Egyptian symbol for eternal life. Stelae were more typically inscribed with prayers or magic formulae to be recited by visitors to ensure the deceased a pleasant and peaceful afterlife. (Height: 29.5 cm, Width: 25 cm; Diameter: 8 cm) Abydos, Egypt, 1938-1759 BC. Excavated by David Randall-MacIver, Egypt Exploration Fund, 1901. (Penn Museum object # E9952)
Books of the Dead consisted of a group of spells whose primary purpose was to assist the deceased in their journey into the afterlife. No one book contained all of the spells, and while most examples were inscribed on papyrus rolls, spells could also appear on tomb walls, sarcophagi, and funerary stelae. The spells were often accompanied by vignettes; this one depicts the deities Osiris, Thoth, Isis, and Nephthys, as well as other divine figures. Neferrenpet, the owner of this Book of the Dead, was a sculptor who lived in the village of Deir el-Medina during the reign of Ramses II. (Height: 41 cm; Width: 58 cm) 1279-1213 BC, from Thebes, Egypt, gift of the American Exploration Society, 1902. (Penn Museum object # E2775C)
This clay cuneiform tablet, from the site of Nippur in Iraq, 1500-1155 BC, features the first known depiction of a map. (Length: 13 cm; Width: 11 cm; Depth: 3 cm) Excavated by the Babylonian Expedition (Penn Museum object # B13885)
This clay vessel from the Nasca culture in Peru, AD 1-700, depicts a cat-like trophy head entwined in darts or rays. From the Penn Museum expedition by William Farabee, 1922-1923 (Height: 7/6 cm; Width: 14 cm) (Penn Museum object # SA2919)