Collections: Items Tagged "old kingdom"

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On View: Pendant Cross

Ethiopian Crosses
Christianity most likely arrived in Ethiopia in the first century. The conversion of King Ezana in 330

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Dance Headdress (Ci-wara Kun)

    These headdresses, called ci-wara, represent antelopes, important animals in Bamana philosophy. The antelope’s power is a metaphor for...

     

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    Found 19 Items Tagged "old kingdom"

    Kneeling Statuette of Pepy ISeated Statuette of SekhemkaStatue of Ity-senStatue of MetjetjiSwamp SceneSeated Statue of the Superintendent of the Granary IrukaptahStatuette of Queen Ankhnes-meryre II and her Son, Pepy IIRelief of Princess Khekeret-nebtyRelief of AkhethotepStatue of a Family GroupStatuette of a Striding ManFragmentary Ointment Jar Inscribed for UnasSeated Statue of NakhtsaesOffering Stand of Irukaptah with BowlUpper Part of a False Door of SethewSarcophagus with Separate CoverStela of Maaty and DedwiSeated Statuette of Pepy I with Horus Falcon
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