Glossary of ancient Egypt artifacts

Glossary of ancient Egyptian artifacts and materials

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• Amulet—Predynastic, and onward.
• Canopic jar—Vessel containing internal body organs removed during mummifiication
• Canopic chest—The common chest contained the four Canopic jars.
• Crook—Symbol of pharaonic power. Symbol of the god Osiris
• Faience—Glasswork articles, amulets, etc.
• False door—an artistic representation of a door, a common architectural element in the tombs.
• Flail—Symbol of pharaonic power. Symbol of the god Osiris
• Flint knife— prestige funerary good, from the Naqada period until the end of the Early Dynastic Period
• Funerary cone; (Mesopotamia had clay nails)
• Headrest—Found in tombs, etc. Typically personal, or a memorial headrest.
• Menat&mdash and counterpoise; required a counterweight on back. (Often shown-(menat and counterpoise) just being held in the hand of the woman, Goddess, etc.)
• Microlith—Ancient Egyptian stone flakes.
• Mummy—body after mummification.
• Naos—religious shrine; portable shrine for carrying a god.
• Ostracon—Pottery sherd, limestone Sherd, used as writing material.
• Cosmetic palette—Slab of stone, sometimes decorated, used for preparing cosmetics. See: Narmer Palette; and: Category:Archaeological palettes.
• Papyrus—Material made from papyrus reeds, used as writing and painting material.
• Pectoral (Ancient Egypt)—many forms. (Up to 13 additional Gardiner-unlisted determinative hieroglyphs for the "pectoral"; See Gardiner's sign list.)
• Saqqara Bird—Wooden bird model.
• Sarcophagus—a funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved in stone.
• Scarab: amulet or seal in the form of an abstract dung beetle
• Senet—A board game.
• Shabti—Figurines placed in the tomb as substitutes for the tomb owner in the next world
• Sistrum—Musical instrument, a metal rattle.
• Sphinx
  • Statuary—Pharaonic and non-pharaonic. (Range of sizes.)
  • Amulets—numerous, (and predynastic).
• Stele
  • Boundary Stele—Placed at boundaries.
  • Memorial Stele—Pharaonic or non-pharaonic.
  • Monumental Stele—Offered to gods, special individuals, etc.
  • Votive Stele—private, dedication.
  • Victory Stele—Pharaonic.
• Talatat—limestone wall blocks, at times painted.
• Ushabti— shabtis from the 21st Dynasty and later.

See also

• Grave goods
• Votive deposit

References

• Reeves, Nicholas. Ancient Egypt, The Great Discoveries, a Year-by-Year Chronicle,
• Nicholas Reeves, (Thames and Hudson Ltd. London), c.2000. Glossary: p. 242