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Double Seating Image of Maya and Merit - Rijksmuseum Von Oudheden Collection

Photo Focus: Maya Inventory Number: AST 3 New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1319 BC. Location Information: Egypt, Saqqara, tomb of Maya

Description:

Maya was one of the great men in the Egypt of Tutankhamun and Horemheb, but his career may have started earlier: during the reign of the famous pharaoh Akhenaten. Under Tutankhamun and Horemheb he was a kind of minister of finance and was in charge of all major construction projects in the country. The construction and maintenance of the important cemeteries also fell under his responsibility, especially those of the pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings.

Additional Image Source: Maya and Merit, Rob Koopman @ Fl

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Seated Pair Statuette - Met Museum Collection

Inventory Number: 07.228.94 New Kingdom, Dynasty 18–19, ca. 1336–1250 B.C. Location Information: Location Unlisted

Description:

This statuette depicts a man and a woman sitting side by side, supporting each other's back with their arms. The man is dressed in a modishly long tunic under a fringed sash-kilt and the woman wears a fashionable wrap-around dress knotted just below her breasts. Their stools are represented in almost as great detail as their clothing and coiffures. The seat of the man's stool is woven and its legs enclose a lattice bracing. The woman sits on a different stool with flared legs, as often appears in seated pair statues of this period. Such statues were usually placed in a niche at the tomb or at a chapel.

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Sitting figure of Maja - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Collections

Inventory Number: ÄM 19286 Tutmose III (18th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Egypt) Location Information: Akhmim (? / Egypt / Middle Egypt)

Description:

Maja was a high official of the provincial administration. He was installed as Gouverneur and head of the Priests in the 10th upper egyptian district by king Tutmose III, who's name is written on the chest and right upper arm. His grave was found in the necropolis of the main settlement of that district and it is speculated that this figure was also from there. Maja sits upright on a simple stool. The text tells us names and titles of the deceased, as well as the sacrificial rites for the local deities. He is dressed in a short skirt, originally reserved for the kings, but later also found with private persons. He holds in his right hand a sweat cloth, while the left isflat on his skirt. The round expressionless face is, like the entire figure, structured very formal. A wig that was in keeping with the taste of the time was literally placed over the head. The two necklaces, consisting of disc pearls, as well as the massive upper and lower arm bracelets, are awards made of gold that the king had given him. They probably indicate former military service.

Credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Jürgen Liepe

Other Images Used for Display:

Wikimedia Commons, @ User ArchaiOptix

Wikimedia Commons, @ User ArchaiOptix

Wikimedia Commons, @ User ArchaiOptix

Wikimedia Commons, @ User ArchaiOptix

Wikimedia Commons, @ User ArchaiOptix

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Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna - Met Museum Collection

Note: This is a modern copy of an original Inventory Number: 30.4.48 Original Dating: New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1400–1352 B.C. Location Information: Original from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Menna (TT 69), north wall

Description:

Copied from an original executed in painted plaster on the north wall of Menna's tomb chapel, this facsimile depicts the tomb owner fishing and fowling in the papyrus marshes. To viewer left, Menna holds decoy birds in one hand and raises a throwstick above his head with the other. On the right, he uses a long spear to catch two large fish, most likely Tilapia. In both vignettes, he is poised on the deck of a papyrus skiff, into which members of his family (unnamed here, but probably his wife and several of his children) have crowded.