LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: vulture

On loan to The Met Title: Head and shoulder from a statue of a vulture Period: Napatan Period Date: ca. 690–664 BCE Medium: Granite gneiss Dimensions: 41.5 × 27 × 50 cm, 49 kg (16 5/16 × 10 5/8 × 19 11/16 in., 108 lb.) Other (Head): 10 1/4 in. (26 cm) Credit Line: The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Allocated by the Oxford Expedition to Nubia from excavations at Sanam Abu Dom, 1922. Object No.: DE.113 This fragment probably depicts the goddess of Upper Egypt, Nekhbet, in her vulture manifestation. The presence of Nekhbet and her Lower Egyptian counterpart Wadjet (likely represented in the adjacent cobra statue fragment) reinforced a king’s divine right to rule. Although both deities are Egyptian, aspects of the fragments suggest that they come from statues made in Nubia. Napatan rulers used gneiss for state-commissioned art, and details of the vulture—in particular the thick beak, heavy neck ridge, and broad collar—have no parallel in known Egyptian depictions of Nekhbet. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/divine-egypt/exhibition-objects

On loan to The Met Title: Head and shoulder from a statue of a vulture Period: Napatan Period Date: ca. 690–664 BCE Medium: Granite gneiss Dimensions: 41.5 × 27 × 50 cm, 49 kg (16 5/16 × 10 5/8 × 19 11/16 in., 108 lb.) Other (Head): 10 1/4 in. (26 cm) Credit Line: The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Allocated by the Oxford Expedition to Nubia from excavations at Sanam Abu Dom, 1922. Object No.: DE.113 This fragment probably depicts the goddess of Upper Egypt, Nekhbet, in her vulture manifestation. The presence of Nekhbet and her Lower Egyptian counterpart Wadjet (likely represented in the adjacent cobra statue fragment) reinforced a king’s divine right to rule. Although both deities are Egyptian, aspects of the fragments suggest that they come from statues made in Nubia. Napatan rulers used gneiss for state-commissioned art, and details of the vulture—in particular the thick beak, heavy neck ridge, and broad collar—have no parallel in known Egyptian depictions of Nekhbet. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/divine-egypt/exhibition-objects

On loan to The Met Title: Head and shoulder from a statue of a vulture Period: Napatan Period Date: ca. 690–664 BCE Medium: Granite gneiss Dimensions: 41.5 × 27 × 50 cm, 49 kg (16 5/16 × 10 5/8 × 19 11/16 in., 108 lb.) Other (Head): 10 1/4 in. (26 cm) Credit Line: The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Allocated by the Oxford Expedition to Nubia from excavations at Sanam Abu Dom, 1922. Object No.: DE.113 This fragment probably depicts the goddess of Upper Egypt, Nekhbet, in her vulture manifestation. The presence of Nekhbet and her Lower Egyptian counterpart Wadjet (likely represented in the adjacent cobra statue fragment) reinforced a king’s divine right to rule. Although both deities are Egyptian, aspects of the fragments suggest that they come from statues made in Nubia. Napatan rulers used gneiss for state-commissioned art, and details of the vulture—in particular the thick beak, heavy neck ridge, and broad collar—have no parallel in known Egyptian depictions of Nekhbet. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/divine-egypt/exhibition-objects

On loan to The Met Title: Head and shoulder from a statue of a vulture Period: Napatan Period Date: ca. 690–664 BCE Medium: Granite gneiss Dimensions: 41.5 × 27 × 50 cm, 49 kg (16 5/16 × 10 5/8 × 19 11/16 in., 108 lb.) Other (Head): 10 1/4 in. (26 cm) Credit Line: The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Allocated by the Oxford Expedition to Nubia from excavations at Sanam Abu Dom, 1922. Object No.: DE.113 This fragment probably depicts the goddess of Upper Egypt, Nekhbet, in her vulture manifestation. The presence of Nekhbet and her Lower Egyptian counterpart Wadjet (likely represented in the adjacent cobra statue fragment) reinforced a king’s divine right to rule. Although both deities are Egyptian, aspects of the fragments suggest that they come from statues made in Nubia. Napatan rulers used gneiss for state-commissioned art, and details of the vulture—in particular the thick beak, heavy neck ridge, and broad collar—have no parallel in known Egyptian depictions of Nekhbet. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/divine-egypt/exhibition-objects

On loan to The Met Title: Head and shoulder from a statue of a vulture Period: Napatan Period Date: ca. 690–664 BCE Medium: Granite gneiss Dimensions: 41.5 × 27 × 50 cm, 49 kg (16 5/16 × 10 5/8 × 19 11/16 in., 108 lb.) Other (Head): 10 1/4 in. (26 cm) Credit Line: The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Allocated by the Oxford Expedition to Nubia from excavations at Sanam Abu Dom, 1922. Object No.: DE.113 This fragment probably depicts the goddess of Upper Egypt, Nekhbet, in her vulture manifestation. The presence of Nekhbet and her Lower Egyptian counterpart Wadjet (likely represented in the adjacent cobra statue fragment) reinforced a king’s divine right to rule. Although both deities are Egyptian, aspects of the fragments suggest that they come from statues made in Nubia. Napatan rulers used gneiss for state-commissioned art, and details of the vulture—in particular the thick beak, heavy neck ridge, and broad collar—have no parallel in known Egyptian depictions of Nekhbet. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/divine-egypt/exhibition-objects