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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. [1] [5]
The same motif is found on other items from the tomb like the cedar chair (JE 62029, find number 87). The chalice therefore symbolises the infinite and eternal life of King Tutankhamun. The lotus is significant in Egyptian mythology for the birth of the sun god, who emerged from the lotus, after it had risen out of the flood of the primeval ...
Several artifacts were found in QVE including nasal obturators, utilitarian amphorae, vases, and pottery dating to the reign of Thutmose III. QVF [77] 18th Dynasty Antiquity Anonymous Official Several artifacts were found in QVF including various types of beads, the handle of a miniature lotiform fan, and pieces of a blue glass paste bracelet.
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Several ancient Egyptian solar ships and boat pits were found in many ancient Egyptian sites. [1] The most famous is the Khufu ship, which is now preserved in the Grand Egyptian Museum. The full-sized ships or boats were buried near ancient Egyptian pyramids or temples at many sites. The history and function of the ships are not precisely known.
Six boat graves were found at Saqqara by Walter Bryan Emery and four of these finds were published. Finally two full-sized model boats made out of clay are known from Abu Roash Hill . [ 14 ] Helwan (a suburb of Cairo on eastern side of Nile) contain a huge cemetery field 20 km south of Cairo adjoining Saqqara in which at least 10,000 tombs have ...
The site at Tell el-Dab'a, covering an area of about 2 square kilometers, is in ruins today, but excavations have shown that, at one point, it was a well-developed center of trade with a busy harbour catering to over 300 ships during a trading season. [11]
Tell el-Dab'a is the modern name for the ancient city of Avaris, an archaeological site in the Nile Delta region of Egypt where the capital city of the Hyksos, once stood.. Avaris was occupied by Asiatics from the end of the 12th through the 13th Dynasty consisting a mixture of cultures of Near East and Egyp