KHMT: GREEN STONES
Green stones as used in ancient Egyptian jewelry and small sculptures, turquoise, feltspar, malachite, and their green substitutes of glass or faience.
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New Kingdom - reign of Thutmose IV–Amenhotep III - ca. 1550–1295 B.C. - This wooden game box has two playing surfaces and throw sticks that were used as counters for determining moves in the game. The top surface is laid out with twenty squares. The bottom has thirty squares for the game "senet" (passing). In the New Kingdom, senet became associated with the underworld; the obstacles of the game corresponding to hazards met on the journey to the afterlife. Metropolitan Museum of Art
Scarab Ring | New Kingdom | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Faience Scarab Inscribed with the Name Neferure, Royal Daughter of King Hatshepsut, found on the 3rd finger of left hand of a mummy in an anonymous burial, below the Tomb of Senenmut (TT 71), leading Egyptologists to believe Senenmut was Neferure's father, and Hatshepsut's Consort. Length: 1.8 cm (11/16 in). New Kingdom, 18th dynasty, ca. 1550–1500 B.C. Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Thebes, Upper Egypt. Rogers Fund, 1931.
Missed Connections: Malachite And The Ancient Egyptians | BEYONDbones
There is A LOT of malachite used in the artifacts on display in our Hall of Ancient Egypt, but not in the way you would expect. There are no carved beads or statues of the material, as you will often find today in mineral shops or jewelry stores. Instead, the mineral was ground up and used as a pigment…
Missed Connections: Malachite And The Ancient Egyptians | BEYONDbones
There is A LOT of malachite used in the artifacts on display in our Hall of Ancient Egypt, but not in the way you would expect. There are no carved beads or statues of the material, as you will often find today in mineral shops or jewelry stores. Instead, the mineral was ground up and used as a pigment
