![]() ![]() ![]() I started by thinking, “This is a chance to show what I can do,” to really be ambitious and spread my wings a little bit. I look back on it and just remember feeling complete and utter panic for nine months. Now that the dust has settled, what stands out to you about this painting?Ī: What stands out more than anything is that the whole ICA exhibition was a major stretch in terms of conception and production. 60.Q: This painting was incredibly ambitious in both its scale and complexity and creating it must have felt like an ultra-marathon of sorts. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. "Activating the Divine." In Jewelry: The Body Transformed, edited by Melanie Holcomb. "Pectoral of Princess Sithathoryunet." In Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom, edited by Adela Oppenheim, Dorothea Arnold, Dieter Arnold, and Kei Yamamoto. Dorman, Peter F., Prudence Harper, and Holly Pittman 1987. ![]() 3 (Winter), New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. London: Thames and Hudson Inc., obverse: pp. Jewels of the Pharaohs: Egyptian Jewelry of the Dynastic Period. Cambridge, Mass.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. Scepter of Egypt I: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom. Twentieth year, 1914, London: The British School of Archaeology in Egypt, pp. The Treasure, British school of archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian research account. 12 (December, Supplement), front cover pp. "The Treasure of Lahun." In The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. How a Princess's Jewels were Discovered." In The Times, Issue 40528 (May 20, 1914), p. Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Sir 1914. To experts illuminate this artwork's story Other items in the tomb bear the name of Amenemhat III, suggesting that the princess lived during the reigns of three of the most powerful rulers of Dynasty 12: Senwosret II, Senwosret III, and Amenemhat III. Since the tomb of the princess was beside the pyramid of Senwosret, scholars speculate that she was his daughter. It was essentially the king who benefited from the magical powers inherent in the jewelry worn by the female members of his family, which explains why his name, rather than that of the princess, appears in the designs. Jewelry imbued a royal woman with superhuman powers and thus enabled her to support the king in his role as guarantor of divine order on earth. Jewelry worn by royal women during the Middle Kingdom was not simply for adornment or an indication of status but was also symbolic of concepts and myths surrounding Egyptian royalty. ![]() Supporting the royal cartouche is the kneeling god Heh clutching two palm ribs symbolizing "millions of years." Thus the king's life and existence in time are described as part of a universe created and sustained by the supreme sun god. These snakes represent Nekhbet and Udjo, the traditional protector goddesses of the king. Flanking the king's name are two ankh hieroglyphs (meaning "life") suspended from cobras whose tails are wound around the sun disk on the falcons' heads. The same hieroglyph, elongated to form a cartouche, encircles the throne name of Senwosret II, Khakheperre. Each of the falcons, symbols of the sun god, clasps a circular hieroglyph meaning "encircled," thus declaring the solar deity's supreme power over the universe. Zigzag lines on the base bar represent the primordial waters out of which the primeval hill emerged. The heraldic design is replete with symbolism. This cloisonné pectoral is inlaid with 372 carefully cut pieces of semiprecious stones. Hieroglyphic signs make up the design, and the whole may be read: "The god of the rising sun grants life and dominion over all that the sun encircles for one million one hundred thousand years to King Khakheperre. It was found among the jewelry of Princess Sithathoryunet in a special niche of her underground tomb beside the pyramid of Senwosret II at Lahun. This pectoral is composed around the throne name of King Senwosret II. ![]()
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