~ Statue of a Crocodile with the Head of a Falcon.

Culture: Egyptian

Date: ca. 380-250 B.C.

Period: Late Period-early Ptolemaic Period; 30th Dynasty

Medium: Steatite

Statuette of pantheistic god Bes

Bronze inlaid with gold. Late Period or the Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 BC. Now in the the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art, Geneva.

"Despite his appearance, which changed in many details over time, Bes was deemed beneficent to humans and he was accepted by all classes of Egyptians as a powerful apotropaic deity. He was especially associated with the protection of children and of pregnant women and those giving birth..." Bes was believed to provide protection from snakes among other noxious forces; this statuette shows him in motion stepping on serpents. But Bes was also associated with many of the good things in life: sex, music, and merriment.

"... [In] his later composite form Bes is depicted as the head and sometimes body of a four-armed, winged and many-headed god with the tail of a falcon and the attributes of many of the deities with whom he was combined..."

― Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, by Richard H. Wilkinson

Gold diadem with herakles knot, crafted in Alexandria, Egypt, 220-100 BC

Ring Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Egyptian, Probably Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

Upon death, people who were thought to have lived moral lives were reborn in the afterlife as a form of the god Osiris. This ring is inscribed with the title “Osiris,” followed by the owner’s names and titles, attesting to his faith that he would become one with the god after death.

Ancient Egyptian faience inlay depicting a falcon with spread wings. Artist unknown; 4th cent. BCE (Late Period or early Ptolemaic). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Ptolemaic plaque of a woman giving birth assisted by two figures of Hathor.

The Pharos of Alexandria by Roy Krenkel

Ancient d20s

Faience icosahedron inscribed with letters of the Greek alphabet. Roman, 2nd-3rd century CE. Used for do-it-yourself fortunetelling.

Serpentinite icosahedron inscribed with the letters of the Greek alphabet. Ptolemaic-Roman Period of Egypt, between 2nd century BCE and 4th century CE.

Ptolemaic (プトレマイオス) is so moe lol

Did you know the ancient Greeks were obsessed with Egypt? They saw their gods as versions of their own, adopting much of Egypt’s culture and its customs.

Arsinoe Ⅱ

This is a drawing I did some time ago.　I read the Japanese translation of "Arsinoe of Egypt and Macedon : A Royal Life" by Elizabeth Donnelly Carney, and was influenced by seeing this statue on TV.

~ Ibis figurine.

Place of origin: Egypt, Alexandria (?)

Period: Hellenistic Period (Ptolemaic Dynasty)

Date: 305–30 B.C.

Medium: Gold sheet over core; blue enamel

Striding Thoth

Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305-30 BC. Egyptian faience. Met Museum. 26.7.860

Bronze statuette intended to hold a mummified cat, Ptolemaic Egypt, 330-30 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Inlay Depicting "Horus of Gold"

Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 4th century B.C

Statuette (copper alloy) of the composite Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis Amun Agathodaimon. Artist unknown; 1st cent. BCE/CE (late Hellenistic or early Imperial). From Egypt; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. Photo credit: George E. Koronaios.