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Description: | Faience lotus flower cup. No base. Pale blue black painted decoration. New Kingdom-Third Intermediate Period. Originally part of the MacGregor collection purchased by Wellcome in 1922. Such lotus chalices seem to appear in the New Kingdom and are typically Egyptian. The lotus or water lily rises and opens up each day as the sun comes up. It was thus associated with rebirth. Some have suggested that its narcotic properties were also used by the Egyptians. Spell 81 in the 'Book of the Dead' is for transforming oneself into a lotus: 'Spell for assuming the form of a lotus. To be said by N. I am this pure lotus that has ascended by the Sunlight and is at Re's nose. I spend my (time) shedding (i.e.the sunlight) on Horus. I am the pure lotus that ascended from the field.' Translation from Allen (1974). See Brovarski, et al. 1982. 'Egypt's Golden Age: the Art of Living in the New Kingdom 1558-1085 BC' Museum of Fine Arts Boston p 145-148 for other examples. A similar lotus chalice dating to the New Kingdom is published in Scott, 1986 'Ancient Egyptian Art at Yale' p106-107. See also W1474 for a stone example. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | 1550 B.C.-747 B.C.
New Kingdom - Third Intermediate Period | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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