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Howard Carter found twenty-nine small statues of deities in Tutankhamun's tomb, all concealed within twenty-two small black shrines, the doors of each shrine secured by a cord and seal fastening. These ritual statues, in zoomorphic and anthropomorphic forms, represent the gods protecting and assisting the King during his dangerous journey through the underworld. Most of the wooden figures measure between 55 and 60 cm in height. Their surfaces are either painted mainly black with gilded details or vice versa as the ancient Egyptians associated the colour black with the Nile's dark, fertile soil, linked to regeneration and rebirth, and regarded gold as the 'flesh of the gods'. The four statues featured here in Harry Burton's photograph are, from left to right, the falcon-headed Qebhsenuef and jackal-headed Duamutef.
Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
Oxford
Title
Tutankhamun's gods
Date
1926 & 2015
Medium
digital scan
Accession number
Burton p1665 colour
Acquisition method
original photograph, gift, 1946; digital scan, presented to the Griffith Institute, 2015
Work type
Digital art