Egyptian New Kingdom
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of artefacts from the Egyptian New Kingdom, which date from 1550 to 1069 BC. This collection contains tomb assemblages excavated by the Egypt Exploration Fund at Abydos. These include the grave goods of the lady Henuttaneb, rare pieces of her black coffin, stone vessels, kohl pots, Canopic jars, pottery, glazed composition vessels and inlays, wooden head rests, jewellery, scarabs and amulets. There are also funerary cones from the entrances to tombs of officials. There is a wide selection of shabtis (funerary figurines), including those of Sety I, and a wooden shabti coffin and shabti box. The collection also includes a number of sculptured stone figures, reliefs, trial-pieces, stelae, an ostracon inscribed in ink with a speech to the teams working on Rameses II’s tomb, and a modern model of a seagoing ship. The New Kingdom was formed when the last kings of the Theban 17th Dynasty reunited Egypt, driving out the Asiatic settlers who had dominated during the Second Intermediate Period. Under the rule of these warrior pharaohs, Egypt reached the height of its power in Africa and the Near East. Some of its pharaohs, such as Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and Rameses II, have achieved celebrity status in modern times.
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