Egyptian collection of the Penn Museum

Yesterday I finished editing and uploading the last of my images of artifacts in the Egyptian gallery of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum) to Wikimedia Commons. Next I'll be working on uploading my images of their Greco-Roman collection. Here are some of my favorites from their Egyptian collection:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Egyptian_antiquities_in_the_University_of_Pennsylvania_Museum

Head of King Osorkon II of Egypt excavated at Tunis 874-850 BCE Black Granite

Head of a colossal statue of Ramesses II King of Egypt from Abydos 1290-1224 BCE New Kingdom Dynasty 19

Head of a colossal statue of Ramesses II King of Egypt from Abydos 1290-1224 BCE New Kingdom Dynasty 19

Closeup of Bronze statue of a cat with gold leaf Dynasty 22 Egypt 945-712 BCE

Basalt Baboon Egypt Dynasty 20 1182-1151 BCE

Statue of Ramesses III Limestone Egypt 1187-1156 BCE (Reign of Ramesses III, Dynasty 20)

Ka statue of the Royal Acquaintance Nenkheftkai Limestone excavated at Deshasheh Egypt 2500-2350 BCE (Dynasty 5)

Black granite statue of the goddess Sekhmet excacvated at Ramesseum in Thebes Egypt 1405-1367 BCE Late 18th Dynasty

Gilded cartonnage funerary mask produced after 300 BCE (Ptolemaic or Roman Period)

Ka-figure of Khenu limestone Saqqara Lower Egypt 5th Dynasty 2450 BCE

Mummy of a child Greco-Roman Period Egypt

Sandstone ushabti for the steward Mah from tomb SA 14 in Anibeh Nubia 19th Dynasty Egypt 1275 BCE

Lid of the Mummy Case of the priest Nebnetcheru cartonnage Dynasty 21 or 22 1075-712 BCE

Plaster funerary portrait bust of a man from El Kharga (upper) Egypt Roman Period 2nd century CE


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