Funerary Art

  • Essays (150)
  • Works of Art (294)
  • Sealing
    22.1.120
  • Claw Anklet of Sithathoryunet
    16.1.7a
  • Leopard-Head Girdle of Sithathoryunet
    16.1.6
  • Corner of niche from the tomb of Akhtihotep
    58.123
  • Cobra Amulet
    17.194.2436
  • Amulet depicting Isis, Horus, and Nephthys
    26.7.890
  • Isis amulet
    26.7.883
  • Papyrus column amulet
    10.130.1818
  • Headrest amulet
    04.2.80
  • Stela of the Overseer of the Fortress Intef
    57.95
  • Stela of the Gatekeeper Maati
    14.2.7
  • Queen Nefertari Playing Senet
    30.4.145
  • Gameboard and Gaming Pieces
    01.4.1a
  • Statuette of Lady Dedetamun
    19.3.1
  • Shank of a cylinder amulet
    26.7.1308
  • Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the Name of Senwosret II
    16.1.3a,b
  • A Necklace of four strands of beads and amulets
    22.3.324
  • A pendant depicting a ba-bird with outstretched wings
    13.184
  • Shabti of Seti I
    26.7.919
  • Broad Collar of Wah
    40.3.2
  • Faience Ushabti
    74.51.4495
  • Jerboa figurine
    26.7.899
  • Wall tiles from the funerary apartments of King Djoser
    48.160.1
  • Apotropaic Wand
    30.8.218
  • Sandals
    26.8.148a,b
  • Heart Scarab with a Human Head
    30.8.1080
  • Model collar of Hapiankhtifi
    12.183.16
  • Necklace of Gold Ball Beads
    40.3.17
  • The tomb of Pope Clement XIII Rezzonico in the Vatican
    49.116.78
  • The Monkey King Vali's Funeral Pyre
    2004.367
  • Mummy of Nesmin with plant wreath, mummy mask and other cartonnage elements
    86.1.51
  • House Model
    2015.306
  • Temple Model
    1994.35.684
  • Temple Model
    1979.206.525
  • Temple Model
    1994.35.48
  • Architectural Vessel
    63.226.13
  • Terracotta jug
    2004.363.3
  • Terracotta jar
    2004.363.2
  • Fragment of a limestone relief with two standing figures
    1996.305
  • Fragment of a limestone relief with standing figure
    1996.151.2
  • Female Poro Altar Figure (Ndeo)
    1979.206.194
  • Kerchief from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache
    09.184.219
  • Kerchief from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache
    09.184.218
  • Mirror
    36.3.13
  • Seal Impression Attatched to a Fiber Tie from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache
    09.184.262
  • Fragmentary Impression of the Necropolis Seal from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache
    09.184.261
  • Gravestone with Bust of a Young Man
    2012.454
  • Painting & Sculpture
    2013.135.2
  • Architecture
    2013.135.1
  • Shabti of Isis, Singer of the Aten
    66.99.38
  • Papyrus Marsh
    30.4.60
  • Papyrus column amulet
    26.7.1036
  • Amenhotep III and his Mother, Mutemwia, in a Kiosk
    15.5.1
  • Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna
    30.4.48
  • Papyrus Lid
    09.184.250
  • Heqanakht Account VII
    22.3.522
  • Funerary Papyrus Belonging to the Singer Tiye
    25.3.34
  • Netherworld Papyrus of Gautsoshen
    25.3.31
  • Book of the Dead of the Priest of Horus, Imouthes (Imhotep)
    35.9.20a-w
  • Funerary Papyrus of the Steward Sethnakht
    35.9.19a-e
  • Men Splitting Papyrus, Tomb of Puyemre
    30.4.10
  • Talatat with Offerings in the Temple
    21.9.8
  • Terminal, possibly for a scepter
    30.8.372
  • Shabti of Akhenaten
    66.99.37
  • Estate Figure
    20.3.7
  • Panel painting of a woman in a blue mantle
    2013.438
  • Striding Figure
    62.200
  • Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser
    12.184
  • Traveling Boat being Rowed
    20.3.1
  • Terracotta head of a woman, probably a sphinx
    47.100.3
  • Bronze statuette of a bull
    20.210
  • Lead votive plaque
    21.88.175
  • Terracotta pomegranate
    24.97.110
  • Front of a limestone block from the stepped base of a funerary monument
    16.174.6
  • Bronze cinerary urn with lid
    40.11.3a,b
  • Terracotta cinerary urn
    96.9.219a,b
  • Bronze thymiaterion
    1972.118.87
  • Gold ring
    03.24.34
  • Silver-Gilt Mouthpiece
    74.51.3004
  • Gold Box Surmounted by a Scarab
    2010.226
  • Double-sided Tombstone
    2010.225
  • Fragmentary Cenotaph Cover with Qur'anic Calligraphy
    32.100.460
  • Hanging with Polychrome Columns
    22.124.3
  • Reliquary in the Shape of a Sarcophagus
    2002.483.3a,b
  • Ceremonial textile (sarita)
    2009.501.6
  • Tile panel
    2009.59.2
  • Terracotta oinochoe (jug)
    06.1021.209
  • Terracotta oinochoe (jug)
    06.1021.211
  • Terracotta volute-krater (mixing bowl)
    69.11.7
  • Terracotta pelike (jar)
    06.1021.228
  • Fragment of a limestone relief with enthroned couple
    1996.151.1
  • Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water)
    1995.45.1
  • Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water)
    1995.45.2
  • Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
    96.18.22
  • Terracotta lekanis (dish) with lid and finial
    30.11.4a-c
  • Cylindrical bag of sawdust from Tutankhamun's embalming cache
    1988.437.1
  • Bag of natron from Tutankhamun's embalming cache
    1988.437.2
  • Ram head for attachment
    45.2.9
  • Mummy with an inserted panel portrait of a youth
    11.139
  • Water bottle from Tutankhamun's embalming cache
    09.184.83
  • Floral collar from Tutankhamun's embalming cache
    09.184.214-.216
  • Blue kerchief from Tutankhamun's embalming cache
    09.184.217
  • Linen from Tutankhamun's embalming cache
    09.184.220
  • Fragmentary seal impression from Tutankhamun's embalming cache
    09.184.260
  • Inscribed linen sheet from Tutankhamun's embalming cache
    09.184.693
  • Mummy bandage from Tutankhamun's embalming cache
    09.184.797
  • Hydria (water jar)
    06.1021.230
  • Wrapper (Seru Njaago)
    2009.257
  • Wrapper (Seru Njaago)
    2009.256
  • Canopy from the tomb of Philip III (the Bold) of France (1245–1285)
    2007.540
  • Male Poro Altar Figures (Ndeo)
    1979.206.193
  • Face Mask (Kpeliye'e)
    1979.206.216
  • Dancer and Musicians
    1994.605.85a-c
  • Dipper
    64.228.15
  • Figure Bottle
    64.228.43
  • Confronting Figures Bottle
    1978.412.70
  • Owl Stirrup Spout Bottle
    66.30.5
  • Bird Warrior Bottle
    67.167.1
  • Four-Cornered Hat
    1994.35.158
  • Bottle, Skeletal Couple with Child
    1978.412.196
  • Marble relief fragment
    26.199.63
  • Limestone plaque with bilingual inscription
    74.51.2393
  • Wall painting fragment
    92.11.10
  • Funerary Carving (Malagan)
    2007.215.2
  • Terracotta kernos (vase for multiple offerings)
    2004.363.1
  • Guardian lion
    30.66.2
  • Camel
    28.121
  • Horse and rider
    54.169
  • Standing attendant
    2002.501
  • Seated Musician
    2006.156
  • Sculptural Element from a Reliquary Ensemble: Head (The Great Bieri)
    1979.206.229
  • Reliquary: Standing Male Figure
    2002.456.17
  • Seated Male Figure
    1978.412.425
  • Terracotta Hadra hydria (water jar)
    90.9.5
  • Terracotta Hadra hydria (water jar)
    90.9.67
  • Lid and end panels of a lead sarcophagus
    65.148
  • Marble sarcophagus with garlands
    70.1
  • Marble sarcophagus lid with reclining couple
    1993.11.1
  • Painted limestone funerary stele with a seated man and two standing figures
    04.17.2
  • Painted limestone funerary stele with a woman in childbirth
    04.17.1
  • Painted limestone funerary slab with a soldier standing at ease
    04.17.5
  • Painted limestone funerary slab with a soldier taking a kantharos from his attendant
    04.17.6
  • Painted limestone funerary slab with a man controlling a rearing horse
    04.17.3
  • Painted limestone funerary slab with a soldier and two girls
    04.17.4
  • Fragment of a sarcophagus with a seated figure
    18.108
  • Marble strigilated sarcophagus
    2005.258
  • Coffin of Ukhhotep, son of Hedjpu
    12.182.132
  • Model of the foreleg of a horned animal, perhaps from a foundation deposit
    2006.16
  • Marble funerary statues of a maiden and a little girl
    44.11.2,.3
  • Sarcophagus with a Greek physician
    48.76.1
  • Lachrymae
    96.28
  • Mastaba Tomb of Perneb
    13.183.3
  • Votive stela of Userhat
    05.4.2
  • Sennedjem and Iineferti in the Fields of Iaru, Tomb of Sennedjem
    30.4.2
  • Heart amulets
    10.130.1782_10.130.1804
  • Razor Belonging to Hatnefer
    36.3.69
  • Gable-topped chest and linens
    36.3.56,.54,.111
  • Hatnefer's Chair
    36.3.152
  • Jar from the tomb of Sennedjem
    86.1.10
  • Cosmetic Box from the tomb of Sennedjem
    86.1.8
  • Khonsu's anthropoid coffins
    86.1.1,.2
  • Mummy Mask of Khonsu
    86.1.4
  • Shawabti box and shawabtis
    86.1.14,.18,.21
  • Rings and necklace
    40.3.1,.11,.16
  • Inner coffin of Khonsu
    86.1.2a
  • Statuette of Wah
    20.3.210
  • Nebamun Supervising Estate Activities, Tomb of Nebamun
    30.4.57
  • Model Bakery and Brewery from the Tomb of Meketre
    20.3.12
  • Funerary carving (malagan)
    1978.412.712
  • Funerary carving (malagan)
    1979.206.1474
  • Friction Drum (Lunet or Livika)
    1979.206.1477
  • Figure (uli)
    1977.455
  • Funerary Figure (Kulap)
    1981.331.5
  • Mask (Buk, Krar, or Kara)
    1978.412.1510
  • Ancestor Figure (korwar)
    2001.674
  • Bis Pole
    1979.206.1611
  • Dance paddle (rapa)
    1978.412.1571
  • Figure (Hampatong)
    1988.124.3
  • Puppet head (si galegale)
    1987.453.6
  • Man's Grave Marker (Sunduk)
    1990.338a,b
  • Body Mask (Det)
    1978.412.1282a
  • Jacques-Joseph Ebelman on His Deathbed
    2000.235
  • Marble sarcophagus with garlands and the myth of Theseus and Ariadne
    90.12a,b
  • Marble sarcophagus with the myth of Selene and Endymion
    47.100.4
  • Marble sarcophagus with the contest between the Muses and the Sirens
    10.104
  • Marble cinerary chest with lid
    27.122.2a,b
  • Marble lid of a cinerary chest
    1997.271
  • Marble cinerary urn
    2002.297
  • Alabaster cinerary urn
    96.9.225a,b
  • Terracotta vase
    53.11.5
  • Bronze hydria (water jar)
    06.1078
  • The Babes in the Wood
    94.9.4
  • The Angel of Death and the Sculptor from the Milmore Memorial
    26.120
  • Bronze cista (toiletries box)
    96.18.1
  • Bronze cista (toiletries box)
    22.84.2
  • Bronze cista (toiletries box)
    22.84.1
  • Quilt (or decorative throw), Crazy pattern
    1983.349
  • Limestone sarcophagus
    74.51.2451
  • Marble anthropoid sarcophagus
    74.51.2452
  • Limestone funerary stele (shaft) surmounted by two sphinxes
    74.51.2499
  • Memorial Post
    1993.522
  • Statuette of Anubis
    38.5
  • Thutmose I and His Mother Seniseneb
    30.4.137
  • Queen Nefertari Playing Senet, Tomb of Nefertari
    30.4.145
  • Shabti of Merneptah
    26.7.1451
  • Ramesses III and Prince Amenherkhepeshef before Hathor
    33.8.7
  • Coffin Set of the Singer of Amun-Re, Henettawy (F)
    25.3.182-184
  • Sarcophagus of Horkhebit
    07.229.1ab
  • Figure: Female
    1978.412.577
  • Figure: Tomb Sculpture (Aloalo)
    1998.317.1
  • Tile from an inscriptional frieze
    12.44
  • Seated Female Musicians
    23.180.4-7
  • Calligraphic Plaque
    1987.14
  • Epitaph tablets (Myoji), set of thirty-four
    1998.486.1-.34
  • Bronze statuette of a young woman
    17.190.2066
  • Limestone funerary relief
    29.54
  • Kneeling Female Figure
    1999.272.1,2
  • Earring
    33.35.45,.46
  • Necklace
    33.35.47
  • Necklace beads
    33.35.48
  • Bowl
    49.133.2
  • Bowl
    49.133.3
  • Bowl
    49.133.4
  • Marble grave stele of a little girl
    27.45
  • Marble grave stele with a family group
    11.100.2
  • Marble stele (grave marker) of a youth and a little girl
    11.185a-c,f,g
  • Marble funerary altar of Cominia Tyche
    38.27
  • Mummy Mask
    19.2.6
  • Figure of a Woman
    12.185.4
  • Design for the Tomb of Pope Julius II della Rovere
    62.93.1
  • Tomb Effigy Bust of Marie de France (1327-41), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Evreux
    41.100.132
  • Memorial Figure of a Hornblower (Mma)
    1978.412.394
  • Memorial Head (Nsodie)
    1978.412.563
  • Storage Jar (Aryballos)
    1978.412.68
  • Funerary Vessel
    1980.68
  • Panpiper Vessel
    1978.412.219
  • Mourner
    17.190.386
  • Terracotta larnax (chest-shaped coffin)
    1996.521a,b
  • Terracotta funerary plaque
    54.11.5
  • Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
    21.88.17
  • Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
    25.78.2
  • Terracotta sarcophagus rim
    21.169.1
  • Marble akroterion of the grave monument of Timotheos and Nikon
    07.286.107
  • Marble funerary altar
    25.78.29
  • Mantle
    1986.488.1
  • Double-Chambered Vessel
    1978.412.90a,b
  • Funerary urn (hunping)
    1992.165.21
  • Ornamental mask
    1980.563.18
  • Reliefs from the Tomb of Nes-peka-shuty
    23.3.468
  • Bracelet Modeled on Shell Ornament
    1975.268.388
  • Haniwa (Hollow Clay Sculpture) of a Warrior
    1975.268.414
  • Haniwa (Hollow Clay Sculpture) of a Boar with Bound Feet
    1975.268.418
  • Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons
    55.11.5
  • Gravestone with funerary banquet
    02.29.1
  • Ritual object (bi)
    1986.112
  • Tomb Panel with Relief of Figures in a Pavilion
    20.99
  • Limestone sarcophagus: the Amathus sarcophagus
    74.51.2453
  • Terracotta krater
    14.130.14
  • Marble statue of a kouros (youth)
    32.11.1
  • Standing Male Figure
    1982.317.3
  • Spouted jar
    60.20.15
  • Top for standard
    1996.82.1
  • Canopic Jar with a Lid in the Shape of a Royal Woman's Head
    30.8.54
  • Cat Statuette intended to contain a mummified cat
    56.16.1
  • Portrait of the Boy Eutyches
    18.9.2
  • Headdress
    33.35.3
  • Ocarina
    1984.507.17
  • Funerary Mask
    1974.271.35
  • Pair of Figures
    1987.394.635,.636
  • Plate, Loop, and Tongue of Belt Buckle
    95.15.103ab
  • Model of a Granary with Scribes
    20.3.11
  • Guardian Figure
    14.3.17
  • Face Neck Bottle
    1970.246.6
  • Seated Figure
    1976.412.2
  • Seated Figure Vessel
    1988.117.11
  • Jar
    1996.15
  • Miniature Dress
    1979.206.639
  • Costumed Figure
    1979.206.953
  • Mosque lamp of Amir Qawsun
    17.190.991
  • Horse with Female Rider
    51.93ab
  • Terracotta Tomb Plaque
    1985.147
  • Tomb Effigy of Jean d'Alluye
    25.120.201
  • Sarcophagus with Scenes from the Lives of Saint Peter and Christ
    1991.366
  • Table Top
    47.100.50
  • Gold Appliqué in the Form of a Cross
    95.15.79-.83
  • Funerary Stela with Architectural Frame
    36.2.6
  • Panel with a Griffin
    2000.81
  • Fragment of a Marble Sarcophagus
    25.120.590
  • Mosque lamp for the Mausoleum of Amir Aydakin al 'Ala'I al-Bunduqdar
    17.190.985
  • Ceramic Lantern
    91.1.138
  • Mirror with decoration of figures in a landscape
    25.219.4
  • Tomb guardian (zhenmushou)
    1979.438
  • Panel from a Cenotaph or Symbolic Coffin with Marquetry Decoration
    37.103
  • Tomb of Ermengol VII, Count of Urgell
    28.95
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