Art schools in ancient Egypt. B

Art schools in ancient Egypt. B

The ancient Egyptian artist had known the use of templates and stencils in most of his carvings and wall inscriptions. That technique was beyond the precision and accuracy in every text goes back to ancient Egypt. Whoever the template-use can count reliable, faults and human-errors can evolve. The first example is from Wady Elseboua temple which is about 1200 BC and it is from a wall-inscription. That inscription was pressed on wet blaster and seems the work was done in rush as it resulted dropping some part of the text, the artist forgot to add goddess Isis title "great" then he did over-lab some of the text. . Copyrig ©Musegypt

Cairo Museum. King Snefru stays in the shadow.

Cairo Museum. King Snefru stays in the shadow.

It called my full attention a week ago in Cairo museum garden seeing a slab in fine limestone with a text and a fine carving for king Snefru the founder of the fourth dynasty neglected in a shadowy corner of the museums garden. King Snefru ruled Egypt around 2575 B.C and built the two famous pyramids" the bent and the red" in Dahshur, south-west of Giza. This carving represents him, his titles and his cartouche under the protection of the Falcon –god Horus. Copyrig ©Musegypt

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Picture by Paul Woods

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This picture came from the hypostyle hall/colonnade of the Karnak temple in Luxor city, the carving dates back to the 19th dynasty, reign of king Ramses II which is about 1200 B.C. It represents Ramses II while being assisted by priests of the main gods in order to tow the divine marriage-ship to join the marriage feast" the opet" Copyrig ©Musegypt

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Picture By Carole & Rob Haines


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This picture came from Comombow temple, south of Luxor city and it represents Ptolemy VIII and his sister/wife Cleopatra II and his second wife Cleopatra III. The carving dates back to 100 BC and represents the king while wearing the Osiris crown and receives the scimitar sword from god Horus which emphasis that Egypt had some wars and therefore he was provided with war permission. Copyrig ©Musegypt

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Picture By Carole & Rob Haines


A carving from Hatshepsut temple

This picture came from the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the chapel of Anubis.
The top of the picture has the traditional amulet of power and protection which is the winged sun –disc.

The Hieroglyphic text on the right of the picture was disfigured a part from the titles of the gods. The original text there was to refer to the queen herself. The left side of the picture has three complete hieroglyphic sentences read
1st. The living Horus, the mighty one, he who shines on Waset" Luxor" the ruler with the hounored heart.

2nd. Life to the king of upper and lower Egypt, " the coronation -cartouche reads he who is the firm existence of Ra" the beloved of Amun-Ra.

3rd. Life to the sun of Ra "the birth-cartouche reads Thut mass, child of the ibis-god, the good being" May "he "be given life forever. . Copyrig ©Musegypt

Cairo museum, Seth since the beginning.

Painted by Yasser kamel

Cairo museum, Seth since the beginning .

We have enough evidence that Seth cult goes back to the beginning. Seth, the god and the force of chaos , disorder, confusion, dark and evil seems to be much older and stronger than his rivals in the Nile Delta. The Egyptian museum keeps at the moment the most recent finds of the excavations in the Nile-Delta which includes a terra cotta pot dates back to the Pre-dynastic era, about 4000 BC. That pot was discovered in Tal El Farkha "mound of the bird" the tiny hand carvings represent Seth in his traditional animal shape. Copyrig ©Musegypt

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Picture By Carole & Rob Haines

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An unknown Cartouche



This cartouche is for Ptolemy the Neo- Dionysus " most probably for Ptolemy 11th" about 90 BC. The Hieroglyphic title of that Ptolemy reads "he who go forth while been drunk" or the drunken. This picture came from the entrance of the great temple of Horus "the falcon-god" in Edfu. Ptolemy the Neo- Dionysus had finished a lot of the Egyptian temples. Copyrig ©Musegypt