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Healing and Magic in Ancient Egypt

These ancient Egyptian artworks provided healing magic to those who used them.
Isabel Stünkel
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Isabel Stünkel, Associate Curator, Egyptian Art, The Met

Join a Met curator to explore artworks in The Met collection that relate to healing and magic in ancient Egypt.

Featured artworks:

Statue of the Goddess Sakhmet, ca. 1390-1352 B.C. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Karnak. Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III. Granodiorite, H. 210 cm (82 3/4 in); W. of base 47.5 cm (18 3/4 in); D. 95.5 cm (37 3/4 in). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Henry Walters, 1915 (15.8.2)

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544484

Statue of the Goddess Sakhmet, ca. 1390-1352 B.C. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Karnak. Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III. Granodiorite, H. 213 cm (84 in); w. of base 49.5 cm (19 1/2 in); d. 97.5 cm (38 1/2 in). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Henry Walters, 1915 (15.8.3)

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544485

Ceremonial Implement in the Shape of an Ankh, ca. 1400-1390 B.C. Dynasty 18, reign of Thutmose IV. Faience, H. 20.8 cm (8 1/4 in.); W. 10.9 (4 1/4 in.); Th. 1.8 cm (3/4 in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915 (30.8.30)

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/548476

Magical Stela (Cippus of Hora), 360-343 B.C. Dynasty 30, reign of Nectanebo II. Meta-Greywacke, H. 83.5 cm (32 7/8 in.); W. 33.5 cm (13 2/8 in.); D. 7.2 cm (2 3/4 in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 1950 (50.85)

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/546037

Wedjat Eye Amulet, 664-332 B.C. Late Period. Faience, L. 2 cm (3/4 in.); W. 1.9 cm (3/4 in.); Th. 0.4 cm (1/4 in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889 (89.2.415)

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/550997

Wedjat Eye Amulet, 332-30 B.C. Ptolemaic Period. Gold, H. 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in); w. 3.7 cm (1 1/2 in); th. 0.4 cm ( 1/4 in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1923 (23.2.68)

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/547767

Related essays from the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History:

"Ancient Egyptian Amulets"

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/egam/hd_egam.htm

"Egyptian Faience: Technology and Production"

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/egfc/hd_egfc.htm

"Gold in Ancient Egypt"

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/egold/hd_egold.htm

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Isabel Stünkel
Curator, Department of Egyptian Art

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