Despite going to Gulbenkian's Museum on a fairly regularl basis, it had been a while since I had visited its permanent collection. I must confess I spent more than three consecutive hours strolling along its rooms and admiring the fabulous collection of artifacts travelling from Egypt through to Persia and Turkey. I couldn't haelp taking a few photographs of the ones that mostly impressed me.
Polychrome limestone low relief - Old Kingdom 4th dynasty, ca 2500 BC (left); Polychrome ebony funerary statue - Middle Kingdom XI dynasty, ca 2000 BC (right).
Polychrome limestone stele of the scribe Iry - New Kingdom 18th dynasty - ca 1300 BC.
Limestone low-relief of the priest Ameneminet - New Kingdom - late 18th dynasty, ca 13200 BC.
Chist and gold statuette of the God Osiris - late period, 26th dynasty - 664-525 BC.
Polychrome faience - Sons of the God Orus - Late period, 26th dynasty - 664-525 BC.
Compact limestone statuette depicting the civil clerk Bes - late period, early 26th dynasty, 660-610 BC
Gilded silver funerary mask - late period, 30th dynasty, 664-525 BC
Fine limestone low-relief - Greco-Roman period, early Ptolemaic dynasty, ca. 300-250 BC (left); Bronze solar barque of Djedhor- late period, 26th-30th dynasty, c.380-343 BC (right)
Faience torso of the Goddess Venus Anadiomene - Greco-Roman period, Roman period - 30BC-300 AD.
Some of the gold medallions, said to have been found in Abouquir Egypt, most of which depicting Alexander the Great were absolutely stunning, not only in terms of the design but also the craftsmanship.
Athena sitting on a throne and feeding a serpent coiled in an olive tree (left); Nereid riding a sea dragon (right).
Busts of Alexander the Great.
Alabaster bas relief from former Assyria (present day Irak), Nimrud, c. 884-859 BC.
(To be continued)
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