A small but very nice collection of Egyptian artifacts in the town museum of Maidstone..
Photos:
1. Shabti – Painted limestone with Ba-bird (the human headed bird that watches over
souls) on chest – New Kingdom – 19th Dynasty.
2. Lizard on bronze box - Guards against fever – Late Period –
Hellenistic Period.
3. A collection of Orisis figures - God of the underworld, of the Nile flood and vegetation.
4. Painted Wooden Shabti – New Kingdom – 19th Dynasty.
5. Predynastic Jar.
6. Ta-Kesh Mummy – Daughter of the Door Keeper of Osiris,
Pa-Muta’ - Brought to England in the 1820’s – 25th/26th Dynasty.
7. Ta-Kesh Mummy.
8. Ast Shabti – Dressed in kilt and carrying an overseer’s whip –
Third Intermediate Period.
9. Ty Shabti – The Priestess ‘Chantress of Amen’ From Thebes –
Third Intermediate Period
– 21st Dynasty.