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theancientwayoflife · 3 months

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~ Stela of a Man.

Period: Middle Kingdom, 11th Dynasty

Date: ca. 2030–1981 B.C.

Place oforigin: Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Cemetery 100, Tomb TT 114, MMA excavations, 1926–27

Medium: Limestone, paint

#ancient #ancient art #history #museum #archeology #ancient egypt #ancient sculpture #ancient history #archaeology #egyptian #egyptology #Egypt #stela of a man #11th Dynasty #middle kingdom #thebes #ca. 2030 b.c.#ca. 1981 b.c.

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oldsardens · 3 months

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Stela Vesa - Intermezzo. 2022

#Stela Vesa

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lionofchaeronea · 8 months

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Ancient Egyptian stele (painted wood) showing a certain Ankh-auf-Mut adoring the seated deity Osiris. Artist unknown; Third Intermediate Period. Now in the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA.

#art #art history #ancient art #Egypt #Ancient Egypt #Egyptian art #Ancient Egyptian art #Third Intermediate Period #stele #stela #Egyptian religion #Ancient Egyptian religion #kemetic #Osiris #Worcester Art Museum

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mitografia · 1 year

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Stela Gryfon from GROKEN Graphic Novel 1 and 2

#kenneth rocafort #mitografia #art #sketch #illustration #drawing #fantasy #scifi #GROKEN #Stela Gryfon #graphic novel #comic book #sketch card

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ancientstuff · 15 days

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https://www.archaeology.org/issues/552-2405/digs/12301-dd-egypt-luxor-women-stela

Interesting article on the appearance of women in Egyptian art, specifically on stelae.

#archaeology #ancient egypt #ancient women #stelae

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romegreeceart · 9 months

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Stela of Neskhonsu, sistrum player of Amun-Re

* Ptolemaic period (332-30 BCE)

* Wood

* Egyptian Museum, Turin

Turin, June 2023

#Ptolemaic Egypt #stela #ancient #art #clothing #Turin Egyptian Museum #my photo

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vintage-ukraine · 1 year

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A boy and an ancient Scythian Balbal in the Kyiv Botanical Garden, 1968

#Kyiv Botanical Garden #Scythian Balbal #Kurgan stelae #1960s #Kyiv #Ukraine #vintage photography

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suntrait · 22 days

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#Nothing shakes me because I've been waiting for this moment for many months #setting off fireworks #ARE YOU LISTENING TO MY SCREAMS OF JOY???????#NEAL AND STELA YOU ARE PERFECT YOU ARE IN MY HEART #sims 4 #the sims 4 #the sims #ts4 #sims 4 gameplay #the sims 4 gameplay #sims #sims 4 story #the sims 4 family #simblr #mori legacy #friends to lovers

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ouibo-repris · 2 months

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Stela Licina

#stela licina

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smileyfacemojisworld · 2 months

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Roses are dead🥺

Violets are too🤭

No amount of flowers🙅‍♀️

Could bring me back to you😘

#Roses #stela cole

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dwellerinthelibrary · 3 months

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This stela is pretty awful, which is why I love it. Not everyone had loads of silver to fork out for great art, but everyone needed hope. I'm guessing this is a chap and his son, asking the gods for their protection -- but which gods, exactly? Thoth and Tutu are pretty clearly there, but is that the Apis bull, as the Louvre says, or does the animal on the plinth have curly horns and a beard? And who is the small humanoid figure near Thoth? I'm always trying to put a name to figures -- gods, demons, etc -- but perhaps ultimately it doesn't matter; the stela's commissioner knew whose help they wanted.

When: Ptolemaic Egypt

Where: Louvre

#Ancient Egypt #stela #Apis #Thoth #Tutu #Louvre #Ptolemaic Egypt

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 5 months

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Stela N by Alfred Maudslay, Copan, Honduras 1885.

#Vintage photos #Maya ruins #1880-1900 #ancient monument #monument #maya #ancient civilizations #mid-eighth century #photo #photography #photos #Stela N by Alfred Maudslay #Copan #Honduras 1885 #1885 #Honduras

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ancientorigins · 7 months

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Archaeologists in Spain have unveiled a stunning discovery at Las Capellanías! This 3,000-year-old stela holds an unexpected fusion of male warrior and female adornments, challenging ancient gender norms in a ground breaking find.

#Stela #Stelae #burial mound #Bronze Age #Iron Age #Iberian Peninsula #headdress #gender #Spain

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xenonmoon · 1 year

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OH YES IT'S EGYPTOLOGY INFODUMP TIME

Khonsu had indeed more than one aspect (as most of the Egyptian gods after all) and the most common were this four:

Ḫnsw-pꜣ-ẖrd - Khonsu the Child Ḫnsw-pꜣ-jr-sḫr - Khonsu the Provider Ḫnsw-(heseb-ahau) - Khonsu the Decider of Lifespan Ḫnsw-m-Wꜣs.t-nfr-ḥtp - Khonsu in Thebes Neferhotep*

*I left Neferhotep untranslated because it's composed of the hieroglyphs for nft + ḥtp and they can mean different things depending of the context.

nfr can mean "good", "beautiful", "perfect", while ḥtp if it's a name it means "pity"/"mercy" or also "offer", "offering table", if it's a verb it can mean "satisfy", "being satisfied", "being contempt"

Most of my sources leave it like that (Neferhotep), some of them translate it as "the Merciful" (although it should've been more ḥtp yt in that case?), others "beautiful and contempt", others "parfait d'offrandes" (perfect of offer?) and others again "vollkommen Gnädige" (perfectly merciful?)

Every time Khonsu and his aspects comes up I think of the Bentresh Stela (the picture below is incomplete but you can easily google it)

It's a sandstone stela with hieroglyphic incisions telling the pseudo-epigraphical story of Bentresh, daughter of the king of Bakhtan and sister of Neferure who was married to Ramses II

At some point this girl fell ill and they couldn't find any cure for her, so the king of Bakhtan sent a messenger to the Pharaoh of Egypt asking for help.

Ramses called for all the learned men of the palace and a scribe to go there and figure out a way to heal the girl, but they came home reporting their failure because apparently there was a spirit possessing her causing her illness and the only way to cure her was through divine intervention.

"Alright then" probably said the Pharaoh, going to the temple of Khonsu in Thebes

So basically Khonsu Neferhotep stacked 4 layers of magical protection to Khonsu The Provider and sent him to heal the girl.

It's the only case I know where different aspects of a god exist at the same time and interact with each other

One thing I found funny about this story is that as soon as Khonsu The Provider arrived (through his statue carried from the temple) he casted a magical protection on the girl thus expelling the spirit from the body

And that spirit is super polite with him, greeting the god with a sign of peace and welcoming him to the city before deciding to get back to whatever place they came from.

So everyone rejoiced and started preparing celebrations, at some point Khonsu said to his prophet to tell the people to prepare an offering not only for him but for the spirit too

And as they made an offer for the spirit, the spirit went away in peace

But as the celebrations were over the king of Bakhtan refused to let the god go home and kept the statue and shrine in his kingdom for 3 years and 9 months.

Until one night he had a dream where a golden hawk flew away in the general direction of Egypt - so he figured it was time for Khonsu the Provider to go home.

So the god came back to his temple safe and sound and everyone was happy

Story finished, let's get back to the comic-