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Girdle of Princess Sithathor

This girdle of the Princess Sithathor is made of eight gold, half-open cowry shells. The ones at each end have flat reverses, and were joined by means of grooves to serve as a clasp, fastening the girdle when they slid one into the other. The shells are separated from each other by rhomboidal polychrome beads of carnelian, feldspar, and lapis lazuli.

Gold cowry shells were imitations of the real cowry shells that had been used in belts, bracelets, anklets, and necklaces since the pre-dynastic period. People thought that cowry shells possessed powerful magical properties and increase female fertility.

Princess Sithathor was a daughter of King Senusret II, and was most probably a sister of Senusret III, as she was buried within his pyramid complex at Dahshur. Very fine pieces of jewelry that belonged to her were found in her tomb; they are now preserved in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, reign of Senusret II, ca. 1897-1878 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 30858

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Pedro Salinas.

The Education of Love. Paolo de Matteis. Italian 1662-1728. oil/canvas.             http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, 1593 - c. 1656): Saint Sebastian tended by Irene (via Sotheby’s)

Newspaper Reading (1855). Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann (German, 1815-1893). Oil on canvas.

A young woman reads a newspaper, perhaps to her father and dog, in a nicely appointed interior. The man holds what may be a snuff box. Both man and dog are very attentive to the news being read. Books sit on the desk to the rear.

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The Mummy of Queen Hatshepsut

The Mummy of Hatshepsut was found by Howard Carter in KV60, in the Valley of the Kings. While assembling all unidentified mummies with their right arms placed across their chests a royal posture for the Egyptian Mummy Project, some were studied with a CT-scan machine. 

At the same time a canopic box from the Deir el-Bahri cachette that was inscribed for Hatshepsut and contained her liver was also scanned. There was also a tooth inside, a molar with a root; and when examined it was found that it fitted exactly into the mouth of one of the royal women. 

After analysis of Hatshepsut’s mummy, it was concluded that she had died at about the age of fifty, that she had been obese, and that she had diabetes and cancer. The box that contained the tooth is also on display near the mummy.

Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

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