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<p>[QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8124749, member: 20201"]<i>Looks like I missed a couple others I have</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1973 Queen Nefertiti 100 Greatest Masterpieces Medal</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1414896[/ATTACH]</p><p>Nefertiti was an Egyptian queen and the Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh. Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they worshiped one god only, Aten, or the sun disc.</p><p>With her husband, King Akhenaten, she reigned at what was arguably the wealthiest period of Ancient Egyptian history.</p><p>She is most likely the step mother of King Tut, as her husband King Akhenaten had an affair with his own sister who became pregnant and gave birth to King Tut.</p><p>This was normal among royalty to keep the bloodline in the family.</p><p>In c.1348 BC Ankhesenamun was born to Akhenaten and Nerfertiti, making her Tut's half-sister. At the age of ten Tut married her. He died at the age of 19.</p><p>King Tutankhamun was a hobbled, weak teenager with a cleft palate and club foot. And he probably has his parents to blame as a result of incest.</p><p><br /></p><p>This medal shows the famous Thutmose, Bust of Nefertiti.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1977 SHAWABTY</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1414903[/ATTACH]</p><p>One of 36 in the Franklin Mint Egyptian Golden Treasures Medals 1 oz .925 45 mm and 24 gold plating highlight on subject.</p><p>An ancient Egyptian shawabty is a funerary figurine that was intended to magically animate in the Afterlife in order to act as a proxy for the deceased when called upon to tend to field labor or other tasks.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti), with a number of variant spellings were funerary figurines used in Ancient Egypt. Ushabtis were placed in tombs among the grave goods and were intended to act as servants or minions for the deceased, should they be called upon to do manual labor in the afterlife.</p><p>The figurines frequently carried a hoe on their shoulder and a basket on their backs, implying they were intended to farm for the deceased.</p><p>They were usually written on by the use of hieroglyphs typically found on the legs. Called “answerers,” they carried inscriptions asserting their readiness to answer the gods' summons to work.</p><p>The practice of using ushabtis originated in the Old Kingdom (c. 2600 to 2100 BCE) with the use of life-sized reserve heads made from limestone, which were buried with the mummy.</p><p>Most ushabtis were of minor size, and many produced in multiples – they sometimes covered the floor around a sarcophagus. Exceptional ushabtis are of larger size, or produced as a one-of-a-kind master work.</p><p>Due to the ushabti's commonness through all Egyptian time periods, and world museums' desire to represent ancient Egyptian art objects, the ushabti is one of the most commonly represented objects in Egyptology displays. Produced in huge numbers, ushabtis, along with scarabs, are the most numerous of all ancient Egyptian antiquities to survive.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1414904[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8124749, member: 20201"][I]Looks like I missed a couple others I have[/I] [B]1973 Queen Nefertiti 100 Greatest Masterpieces Medal[/B] [ATTACH=full]1414896[/ATTACH] Nefertiti was an Egyptian queen and the Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh. Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they worshiped one god only, Aten, or the sun disc. With her husband, King Akhenaten, she reigned at what was arguably the wealthiest period of Ancient Egyptian history. She is most likely the step mother of King Tut, as her husband King Akhenaten had an affair with his own sister who became pregnant and gave birth to King Tut. This was normal among royalty to keep the bloodline in the family. In c.1348 BC Ankhesenamun was born to Akhenaten and Nerfertiti, making her Tut's half-sister. At the age of ten Tut married her. He died at the age of 19. King Tutankhamun was a hobbled, weak teenager with a cleft palate and club foot. And he probably has his parents to blame as a result of incest. This medal shows the famous Thutmose, Bust of Nefertiti. [B]1977 SHAWABTY[/B] [ATTACH=full]1414903[/ATTACH] One of 36 in the Franklin Mint Egyptian Golden Treasures Medals 1 oz .925 45 mm and 24 gold plating highlight on subject. An ancient Egyptian shawabty is a funerary figurine that was intended to magically animate in the Afterlife in order to act as a proxy for the deceased when called upon to tend to field labor or other tasks. The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti), with a number of variant spellings were funerary figurines used in Ancient Egypt. Ushabtis were placed in tombs among the grave goods and were intended to act as servants or minions for the deceased, should they be called upon to do manual labor in the afterlife. The figurines frequently carried a hoe on their shoulder and a basket on their backs, implying they were intended to farm for the deceased. They were usually written on by the use of hieroglyphs typically found on the legs. Called “answerers,” they carried inscriptions asserting their readiness to answer the gods' summons to work. The practice of using ushabtis originated in the Old Kingdom (c. 2600 to 2100 BCE) with the use of life-sized reserve heads made from limestone, which were buried with the mummy. Most ushabtis were of minor size, and many produced in multiples – they sometimes covered the floor around a sarcophagus. Exceptional ushabtis are of larger size, or produced as a one-of-a-kind master work. Due to the ushabti's commonness through all Egyptian time periods, and world museums' desire to represent ancient Egyptian art objects, the ushabti is one of the most commonly represented objects in Egyptology displays. Produced in huge numbers, ushabtis, along with scarabs, are the most numerous of all ancient Egyptian antiquities to survive. [ATTACH=full]1414904[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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