Ancient Egyptology Artifacts

Amulet

1539–1292 BC.

Predynastic, and onward.

Canopic jar

990-969 BC

Vessel containing internal body organs removed during mummification

  Crook

French peasants threshing with flails around 1270

Symbol of pharaonic power. Symbol of the god Osiris

Faience

4000 BC

Glasswork articles, amulets, etc.

 Flail

French peasants threshing with flails around 1270.

Symbol of pharaonic power. Symbol of the god Osiris

Funerary cone;

14,000 - 9,000 BC

(Mesopotamia had clay nails)

Headrest

1921 - January 1, 1969

Found in tombs, etc. Typically personal, or a memorial headrest.

Menat

6000 - 5500 BC

Menat and counterpoise; required a counterweight on back. (Often shown-(menat and counterpoise) just being held in the hand of the woman, Goddess, etc.)

Microlith

(8000 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian stone flakes.

Mummy

13th century BC

Body after mummification.

Naos

19th century BC

Religious shrine; portable shrine for carrying a god.

Ostracon

2nd-century BC

Pottery sherd, limestone Sherd, used as writing material

Cosmetic palette

4th millennium BCE

Slab of stone, sometimes decorated, used for preparing cosmetics. See: Narmer Palette; and: Category: Archaeological palette.

Papyrus

Third millennium BCE

Material made from papyrus reeds, used as writing and painting material.

Pectoral (Ancient Egypt)

9000 - 6000 BC

Many forms. (Up to 13 additional Gardiner-unlisted determinative hieroglyphs for the "pectoral”.)

Saqqara Bird

200 BCE

Wooden bird model.

  Scarab

1900 BC

amulet or seal in the form of an abstract dung beetle

Shabti

Figurines placed in the tomb as substitutes for the tomb owner in the next world

Sistrum

19th century

Musical instrument, a metal rattle.

Sphinx Statuary

2723 to 2563 BC

Pharaonic and non-pharaonic. (Range of sizes.)

Stele Boundary

Frederick Catherwood in 1839

StelePlaced at boundaries.

Talatat

about 1850 BC

Limestone ring

Ushabti

around 1900 BC

Clay Tablets