#ptolemaic

[egypt-museum]

Relief of Banebdjedet of Mendes in the Temple of Khnum at Esna.

[artschoolglasses]

Gold hairnet, Ptolemaic, 225-175 BCE

From the Getty Villa Museum

[artifacts-archive]

Inlay Depicting "Horus of Gold"

Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 4th century B.C

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Statue of a Crocodile with the Head of a Falcon.

Culture: Egyptian

Date: ca. 380-250 B.C.

Period: Late Period-early Ptolemaic Period; 30th Dynasty

Medium: Steatite

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold diadem with herakles knot, crafted in Alexandria, Egypt, 220-100 BC

[kemetnefret]

| Inlay of the god Thoth striding with the feather of Ma'at | 🪶 {Late Period-Ptolemaic period, Hermopolis, on display at the Met Museum}

[lionofchaeronea]

Ancient Egyptian faience inlay depicting a falcon with spread wings. Artist unknown; 4th cent. BCE (Late Period or early Ptolemaic). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[thatshowthingstarted]

Head of a lion, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–300 B.C.

Gypsum plaster,

H. 42.5 x W. 40 cm (16 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue

[blondebrainpowered]

Ptolemaic Bronze Head of an Ethiopian. 4th-1st century BCE.

[chthonic-sorcery]

Hypatia, you deserved so much better

[upennmanuscripts]

LJS 26 is a 13th century manuscript that includes a treatise on the fundamentals of arithmetic (Algorismus), followed by a treatise on cosmography that describes and illustrates the Ptolemaic model of a spherical earth divided into climactic zones at the center of the concentric spheres of the universe.

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[egypt-museum]

Cippus with Horus on the Crocodiles

Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305-30 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. CG 9401

[artschoolglasses]

Diadem, Ptolemaic, 225-175 BCE

Gold, glass paste, bone or pearl, garnet, cornelian, and moonstone

From the Getty Villa Museum

[artifacts-archive]

Ring Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

Egyptian, Probably Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

Upon death, people who were thought to have lived moral lives were reborn in the afterlife as a form of the god Osiris. This ring is inscribed with the title “Osiris,” followed by the owner’s names and titles, attesting to his faith that he would become one with the god after death.

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Ibis figurine.

Place of origin: Egypt, Alexandria (?)

Period: Hellenistic Period (Ptolemaic Dynasty)

Date: 305–30 B.C.

Medium: Gold sheet over core; blue enamel

[memories-of-ancients]

Bronze statuette intended to hold a mummified cat, Ptolemaic Egypt, 330-30 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art