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Egyptian - Scarab Amulet - Walters 422 - Bottom

Egyptian - Scarab Amulet - Walters 422 - Bottom

The ancient Egyptians believed that the dung beetle, the Scarabaeus sacer, was one of the manifestations of the sun god. Representations of these beetles were used as amulets, and for ritual or administrative p... More

Egyptian - Scarab Amulet - Walters 422 - Impression

Egyptian - Scarab Amulet - Walters 422 - Impression

The ancient Egyptians believed that the dung beetle, the Scarabaeus sacer, was one of the manifestations of the sun god. Representations of these beetles were used as amulets, and for ritual or administrative p... More

Egyptian - Scarab Amulet - Walters 4251 - Bottom

Egyptian - Scarab Amulet - Walters 4251 - Bottom

The ancient Egyptians believed that the dung beetle, the Scarabaeus sacer, was one of the manifestations of the sun god. Representations of these beetles were used as amulets, and for ritual or administrative p... More

Egyptian - Scarab Amulet - Walters 4251 - Impression

Egyptian - Scarab Amulet - Walters 4251 - Impression

The ancient Egyptians believed that the dung beetle, the Scarabaeus sacer, was one of the manifestations of the sun god. Representations of these beetles were used as amulets, and for ritual or administrative p... More

Egyptian - Scarab with a King Holding a Captive - Walters 42381 - Bottom

Egyptian - Scarab with a King Holding a Captive - Walters 42381 - Bott...

The ancient Egyptians believed that the dung beetle, the Scarabaeus sacer, was one of the manifestations of the sun god. Representations of these beetles were used as amulets, and for ritual or administrative p... More

Egyptian - Scarab with a King Holding a Captive - Walters 42381 - Impression

Egyptian - Scarab with a King Holding a Captive - Walters 42381 - Impr...

The ancient Egyptians believed that the dung beetle, the Scarabaeus sacer, was one of the manifestations of the sun god. Representations of these beetles were used as amulets, and for ritual or administrative p... More

Egyptian - Scarab with a King Holding a Captive - Walters 42381 - Right

Egyptian - Scarab with a King Holding a Captive - Walters 42381 - Righ...

The ancient Egyptians believed that the dung beetle, the Scarabaeus sacer, was one of the manifestations of the sun god. Representations of these beetles were used as amulets, and for ritual or administrative p... More

Egyptian - Scarab with a King Holding a Captive - Walters 42381 - Transcription

Egyptian - Scarab with a King Holding a Captive - Walters 42381 - Tran...

The ancient Egyptians believed that the dung beetle, the Scarabaeus sacer, was one of the manifestations of the sun god. Representations of these beetles were used as amulets, and for ritual or administrative p... More

Egyptian - Scarab with Bound Captive - Walters 4210 - Back

Egyptian - Scarab with Bound Captive - Walters 4210 - Back

This light beige steatite scarab was originally glazed blue or green. The piece is inscribed on the flat underside with an image of a captive Libyan and a short column of hieroglyphics. The top of the piece is ... More

Egyptian - Scarab with Bound Captive - Walters 4210 - Bottom

Egyptian - Scarab with Bound Captive - Walters 4210 - Bottom

This light beige steatite scarab was originally glazed blue or green. The piece is inscribed on the flat underside with an image of a captive Libyan and a short column of hieroglyphics. The top of the piece is ... More

Egyptian - Scarab with Bound Captive - Walters 4210 - Impression Detail

Egyptian - Scarab with Bound Captive - Walters 4210 - Impression Detai...

This light beige steatite scarab was originally glazed blue or green. The piece is inscribed on the flat underside with an image of a captive Libyan and a short column of hieroglyphics. The top of the piece is ... More

Egyptian - Scarab with Bound Captive - Walters 4210 - Impression

Egyptian - Scarab with Bound Captive - Walters 4210 - Impression

This light beige steatite scarab was originally glazed blue or green. The piece is inscribed on the flat underside with an image of a captive Libyan and a short column of hieroglyphics. The top of the piece is ... More

Egyptian - Scarab with Bound Captive - Walters 4210 - Right

Egyptian - Scarab with Bound Captive - Walters 4210 - Right

This light beige steatite scarab was originally glazed blue or green. The piece is inscribed on the flat underside with an image of a captive Libyan and a short column of hieroglyphics. The top of the piece is ... More

Egyptian - Scarab with Bound Captive - Walters 4210 - Transcription

Egyptian - Scarab with Bound Captive - Walters 4210 - Transcription

This light beige steatite scarab was originally glazed blue or green. The piece is inscribed on the flat underside with an image of a captive Libyan and a short column of hieroglyphics. The top of the piece is ... More

Egyptian - Tile - Captive Nubian Chieftain - Walters 48409

Egyptian - Tile - Captive Nubian Chieftain - Walters 48409

This man has the large earring and tightly curled hairstyle typical of Egyptian depictions of Nubians. When complete, the tile showed the chieftain as a bound prisoner. Such prisoner tiles could have decorated ... More

Meroitic - Oil Lamp with Bound Prisoner - Walters 541549 - Back

Meroitic - Oil Lamp with Bound Prisoner - Walters 541549 - Back

Elaborate oil lamps with figural attachments were common at the royal court in the ancient kingdom of Meroë. This lamp depicts a captive nude prisoner, his hands bound to his ankles. The lamp would have been su... More

Meroitic - Oil Lamp with Bound Prisoner - Walters 541549 - Side A

Meroitic - Oil Lamp with Bound Prisoner - Walters 541549 - Side A

Elaborate oil lamps with figural attachments were common at the royal court in the ancient kingdom of Meroë. This lamp depicts a captive nude prisoner, his hands bound to his ankles. The lamp would have been su... More

Meroitic - Oil Lamp with Bound Prisoner - Walters 541549 - Three Quarter

Meroitic - Oil Lamp with Bound Prisoner - Walters 541549 - Three Quart...

Elaborate oil lamps with figural attachments were common at the royal court in the ancient kingdom of Meroë. This lamp depicts a captive nude prisoner, his hands bound to his ankles. The lamp would have been su... More

Meroitic - Oil Lamp with Bound Prisoner - Walters 541549

Meroitic - Oil Lamp with Bound Prisoner - Walters 541549

Elaborate oil lamps with figural attachments were common at the royal court in the ancient kingdom of Meroë. This lamp depicts a captive nude prisoner, his hands bound to his ankles. The lamp would have been su... More

Sarcophagus of Ramses III, Louvre 122007 28

Sarcophagus of Ramses III, Louvre 122007 28

Sarcophage externe en granit rouge de Ramsès III - XXe dynastie égyptienne - Musée du Louvre

Head of a Nubian captive, Egypt, Medinet Habu, Mortuary temple complex of Ramesses III, New Kingdom, reign of Ramesses III, 1184-1153 BC, sandstone - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago - DSC08041

Head of a Nubian captive, Egypt, Medinet Habu, Mortuary temple complex...

Exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.

Sneferu Wadi Maghara

Sneferu Wadi Maghara

Drawing of a rock inscription of Snefru from the Wadi Maghara, made by Karl Richerd Lepsius.

Narmer Palette Bull

Narmer Palette Bull

Image:NarmerPalette ROM.jpg by Captmondo, gamma adjusted to bring out more detail at lower resolutions

Captive Judæan kingdom. - Public domain  drawing

Captive Judæan kingdom. - Public domain drawing

Rawlinson's drawing of a cartouche showing the name "ydhmrk". Champollion's 1829 reading of this name as "King of Judah" is no longer held. Modern scholars generally accept that the phrase refers to "Yad Hemme... More

Narmer Pallette Back - Public domain photogrpaph

Narmer Pallette Back - Public domain photogrpaph

Nederlands: In tweeën gedeeld om meer details te laten zien. Public domain photograph of a sculpture, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

C B Egypt Fig 15 Karnak Place List Cartouches

C B Egypt Fig 15 Karnak Place List Cartouches

An illustration from the Encyclopaedia Biblica, a 1903 publication which is now in the public domain. Fig. 15 for article "Egypt". Image of a part of a list of place-names (each in a cartouche) in Ancient Jud... More

Relief Sekhemkhet Petrie - Egypt

Relief Sekhemkhet Petrie - Egypt

Relief depicting pharaoh Sekhemkhet: smiting a foreign chief (left); as King of Lower Egypt (center); as King of Upper Egypt (right). From Wadi Maghara, 3rd Dynasty, Old Kingdom.

Relief Kadesh Breasted - Egypt

Relief Kadesh Breasted - Egypt

Relief in Abu Simbel depicting the city of Kadesh. The Orontes river surrounds the fortified city, which appears to be garrisoned by Hittites, one of whom bears a standard. Reign of Ramesses II, 19th dynasty, ... More

Petrie Relief of Inti from Dishasha

Petrie Relief of Inti from Dishasha

Relief from the tomb of Inti at Dishasha Deutsch: Relief aus dem Grab des Inti in Dishasha

Thutmose III at Karnak

Thutmose III at Karnak

Thutmose III smiting Canaanite enemies on the seventh pylon at Karnak describing the Battle of Megiddo, 15th Century BC.

Philistine captives at Medinet Habu

Philistine captives at Medinet Habu

Procession of Philistine Captives At Medinet-habu. Public domain photogrpah related to ancient Egypt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ramesses III prisoner tiles from Medinet Habu, catalogued in 1911 by Georges Daressy

Ramesses III prisoner tiles from Medinet Habu, catalogued in 1911 by G...

Ramesses III prisoner tiles from Medinet Habu, catalogued in 1911 by Georges Daressy Georges Émile Jules Daressy, 1911, Plaquettes émaillées de Medinet-Habou, Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, vol... More

Shishak-List - Egypt - A drawing of a man standing in front of a wall

Shishak-List - Egypt - A drawing of a man standing in front of a wall

SHISHAK AND HIS CAPTIVES ON SCULPTURED WALL AT KARNAK. Public domain photograph of Ghiza pyramids, Egypt archaeology, ancient Egypt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Isra... More

Snofru nep - Egypt - A drawing of an egyptian scene

Snofru nep - Egypt - A drawing of an egyptian scene

Čeština: Panovník Snofru poráží beduíny; reliéf ze Sínaje Public domain photogrpah related to ancient Egypt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tresor-dahchour-sesostris3-3 - Egypt

Tresor-dahchour-sesostris3-3 - Egypt

bijoux du trésor du complexe de Sésostris III à Dahchour

Western Asiatic prisoner, Luxor, Medinet Habu, New Kingdom, Dynasty 20, reign of Ramesses III, c. 1182-1151 BC, faience, glaze - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago - DSC07876

Western Asiatic prisoner, Luxor, Medinet Habu, New Kingdom, Dynasty 20...

Exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.

Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon; with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert- being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the Trustees of the British museum (1859) (17978551550)

Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon; with travels in Ar...

Title: Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon; with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert: being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the Trustees of the British museum Identifi... More

Meydum and Memphis (III) (1910) (14757048756)

Meydum and Memphis (III) (1910) (14757048756)

Identifier: meydummemphisiii00petr (find matches) Title: Meydum and Memphis (III) Year: 1910 (1910s) Authors: Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942 British School of Archaeology i... More

Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection; (1911) (14766658935)

Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection; (1911) (14766658935)

Identifier: osirisegyptianre00budg (find matches) Title: Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection; Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934 Subjects: Osiris (Egypti... More

The Rephaim, and their connection with Egyptian history (1852) (14759950486)

The Rephaim, and their connection with Egyptian history (1852) (147599...

Identifier: rephaimtheirconn00corb (find matches) Title: The Rephaim, and their connection with Egyptian history Year: 1852 (1850s) Authors: Corbaux, Marie Françoise Catherine Doetter Subjects: Rephaim Egyp... More

The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria (1896) (14591832698)

The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria (1896) (145918...

Identifier: struggleofnation00maspuoft (find matches) Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria Year: 1896 (1890s) Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Subjects: History, Ancient Eg... More

The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria (1896) (14775000251)

The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria (1896) (147750...

Identifier: struggleofnation00maspuoft (find matches) Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria Year: 1896 (1890s) Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Subjects: History, Ancient Eg... More

The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria (1896) (14778482855)

The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria (1896) (147784...

Identifier: struggleofnation00maspuoft (find matches) Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria Year: 1896 (1890s) Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Subjects: History, Ancient Eg... More

Ancient carving - Shasu spies being beaten by Egyptians

Ancient carving - Shasu spies being beaten by Egyptians

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

Narmer Palette ROM-gamma - Egypt

Narmer Palette ROM-gamma - Egypt

Image:NarmerPalette ROM.jpg by Captmondo, gamma adjusted to bring out more detail at lower resolutions

Narmer Palettedetail - Egypt

Narmer Palettedetail - Egypt

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description