Egyptian First Intermediate Period
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of artefacts from the Egyptian Third Intermediate Period, which date from 1069 to 747 BC. This collection contains grave goods from tombs excavated by Flinders Petrie at Lahun. These include amulets, scarabs, figurines of deities, beads, earrings, pottery and stone vessels. There is also a selection of brilliant cobalt-blue-glazed shabtis, characteristic of this period, such as that of queen Henuttawy. Also from funerary contexts are painted wooden figures of the god Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, a glazed-composition beadwork net, and two heart scarabs, one inscribed with a spell from the Book of the Dead. There is a collection of coffins and coffin panels, which are highly decorated with painted inscriptions and vignettes. Among these is the yellow coffin of a child and her associated grave goods. In addition the collection contains stone sculpture – a rare head of a pharaoh, with his headdress protected by a flying scarab beetle, a relief inscription of Sheshonq V, and the stela of Djedinhertiufankh, Godsfather of Amun. The Third Intermediate Period followed the end of the Egyptian New Kingdom. The high priests of Amun in Thebes broke away from the central authority of pharaoh, and Egypt again fragmented into small kingdoms. It is the period of the 21st to 24th Dynasties.
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