Egyptian Old Kingdom
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of artefacts from the Egyptian Old Kingdom, dating from 2686 to2181 BC. This collection boasts the first object acquired for Glasgow Museums’ Ancient Egyptian collection, a diorite statue of Khafra, builder of the second pyramid at Giza. Also from Giza is a fragment of limestone from one of the pyramids, and an offering slab from the door of the tomb of the lector priest Wep. Other inscribed limestone fragments from tombs include a door-jamb from the tomb at Dendera of Meri-ptah, and a fragment depicting a priest offering ‘the choice part of an animal’. An uninscribed fragment from Abydos depicts the king celebrating his jubilee festival, whilst another depicts an offering bearer carrying a goose in a funerary procession. The collection also includes two wooden headrests, stone vessels, an alabaster offering table, ceramics, glazed composition beads, alabaster jars and a modern model of a seagoing ship. During the Egyptian Old Kingdom, of the Third to Sixth Dynasties of the kings of Egypt, monumental stone architecture was developed in Egypt. The great pyramids at Giza were built for the kings of the Fourth Dynasty.
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