Talking Pyramids

Standing Statuette of a King in a Blue Crown (Probably Akhenaten)

• Artifact of the Day: Standing Statuette of a King in a Blue Crown (Probably Akhenaten), XVIII Dynasty, Brooklyn Museum: http://bit.ly/652O5T #
• PHOTO: Faience Bezel With Cartouche Of Pharaoh Smenkhkare (1336 – 1335 BC): http://bit.ly/7llQiw
• PHOTO: Storage Jar from Amarna, Dynasty XVIII, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. 1893.1-41: http://bit.ly/63ZBhs #
• Paul Barford is offered blue Amarna ware and other illegal artefacts by locals for less than the price of a beer: http://bit.ly/7DdroN #
• Examination of some inorganic pigments and plaster layers from excavations at Saqqara: http://bit.ly/8c7H0M #
• New Evidence for Relations with Egypt’s First Dynasty at Tel Bet Yerah: http://bit.ly/5zvlUw #
• TT96, the Tomb Complex of Sennefer, Mayor of the "Southern City", Thebes, from Osirisnet: http://bit.ly/8ZXoBo #
• 'Sphinx Alley' gives Egypt large open-air museum, to be completed in March says the governor of Luxor (with photos): http://bit.ly/7wHowB #
• Jane Akshar reports that KV34 Tuthmosis III is open but KV2 Ramases IV i closed. #

A scene from the tomb of Sennefer, by Kairoinfo4u

Tomb of Sennefer by Kairoinfo4u. Some rights reserved

Photo Standing Statuette of a King in a Blue Crown (Probably Akhenaten), ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Limestone, painted, 8 3/8 x 1 7/8 in. (21.3 x 4.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Egypt Exploration Society, 29.34. Creative Commons-BY-NC. Image: 3/4, 29.34_threequarter_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph.

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