About: Ancestral Busts   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Bald ones are thought to possibly symbolize someone from Lower Egypt with those showing a tripartite wig for Upper Egypt. All are depicted with wesekh collars and at times pendants of lotus blossoms and buds. Only five are known with inscriptions. 2 'Housewife' with a name, another holding titles and Hathor's name. There seem to be 2 types, smaller amulets and larger actual busts. The most famous of these is the Gallatin Bust. They are seen depicted on various tombs such as Tomb TT78 from Thebes.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Ancestral Busts
rdfs:comment
  • Bald ones are thought to possibly symbolize someone from Lower Egypt with those showing a tripartite wig for Upper Egypt. All are depicted with wesekh collars and at times pendants of lotus blossoms and buds. Only five are known with inscriptions. 2 'Housewife' with a name, another holding titles and Hathor's name. There seem to be 2 types, smaller amulets and larger actual busts. The most famous of these is the Gallatin Bust. They are seen depicted on various tombs such as Tomb TT78 from Thebes.
dcterms:subject
abstract
  • Bald ones are thought to possibly symbolize someone from Lower Egypt with those showing a tripartite wig for Upper Egypt. All are depicted with wesekh collars and at times pendants of lotus blossoms and buds. Only five are known with inscriptions. 2 'Housewife' with a name, another holding titles and Hathor's name. There seem to be 2 types, smaller amulets and larger actual busts. The most famous of these is the Gallatin Bust. They are seen depicted on various tombs such as Tomb TT78 from Thebes.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software