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The Lotus chalice or Alabaster chalice, called the Wishing Cup by Howard Carter, derives from the tomb of the Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun of the 18th Dynasty.The object received the find number 014 and was on display in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, with the inventory numbers JE 67465 and GEM 36. [2]
Lotus tree, bearing a fruit that caused drowsiness, and which was said to be the only food of an island people called the Lotophagi or Lotus-eaters. When they ate of the lotus tree they would forget their friends and homes and would lose the desire to return to their native land in favor of living in idleness.
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The Lotiform Chalice (c. 945–664 B.C.) is faience relief chalice. Images carved into the chalice depict fish, papyrus clumps, and lotus blooms. The vessel's images possibly portray legends surrounding the flooding of the Nile, an event that was of significant economic and spiritual importance to the ancient Egyptians.
Over this were two thin floral collars of blue lotus and cornflowers, tied at the back of the neck. [4] Between the front legs sat an ivory writing palette inscribed with the name of Akhenaten's eldest daughter, Meritaten .
In The Chalice of the Gods, he steals Ganymede's chalice. Percy wins the chalice back by embracing Geras and in so doing, old age, mortality and everything that comes with it which earns him Geras' respect. Harpocrates - The god of silence, who was imprisoned by Triumvirate Holdings and used to silence all demigod communications. After being ...
The Head of Nefertem (also known as the Head from the Lotus Bloom or Tutankhamun as the Sun God) was found in the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in West Thebes. It depicts the King ( Pharaoh ) as a child and dates from the 18th Dynasty ( New Kingdom ).
A chalice (from Latin calix 'cup', taken from the Ancient Greek κύλιξ 'cup') is a drinking cup raised on a stem with a foot or base. Although it is a technical archaeological term, in modern parlance the word is now used almost exclusively for the cups used in Christian liturgy as part of a service of the Eucharist , such as a Catholic mass .