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King Tut's Treasures: The Ritual Figures
Poziom:
Temat: Społeczeństwo i nauki społeczne
The collection goes on and on and on.
Yes. We're more than 5000 objects were found and a lot of them are on display.
But what we're going to look at now are some of the ritual figures.
And there were 34 of these found in these black resined wooden shrines inside the treasury,
where the canopic materials were. So, the same area.
And their function? Protection?
Protection, basically. Protection and ritual use and other things.
We don't completely understand, but... They all have to do with religion and, especially, funerary religion.
And these are two of the most interesting. And these come in pairs, you see.
See, this one is the king is riding on a panther and this one he is harpooning an invisible hippopotamus in a papyrus skiff.
How do we know that it's a hippopotamus, if it's invisible?
We know from representations in tombs and temples, where we actually see the hippopotamus.
And we also know because basically what he's doing here is his showing himself as the guarantor of order,
of the proper order of the Egyptian universe.
And how he does that, is that he defeats the forces of evil.
And hippopotamus is the representation of the forces of chaos or evil.
Another very interesting thing about these statues:
in a lot of the pieces in the tomb is that some of them were not made originally for Tutankhamun.
They were using pieces maybe from a couple of other kings' funerary assemblages.
And some of these statues, some people think, are actually females.
It's very hard to tell males and females apart in certain ways.
There are things like, you know, the shape of the belly, and little details...
But if you look at the faces, you can also see that not all of these faces are Tutankhamun's face.
So, just to show you the matched set here - two of each, and there are a number of the statues of the king as you can see here
These two faces, they match, but that's Tutankhamun's face, see?
Are not the same, are not the same at all.
What's interesting is, for example, we have some of these ritual figures from other royal tombs, from both before and after.
And none of them are gilded the way these are.
So makes you kind of wonder. You know, was there something special going on?
Was Tutankhamun especially honoured?
This is an idea that a scholar named Ray Johnson is to starting to talk about.
It's really interesting, he has a lot of really interesting way-off-the-charts ideas.
But that's one of them: that maybe, you know, they just have loved him so much,
because he brought back the worship of Amun.
Yes.
Ok. Are we going to move on again, I don't know... What awaits us here...
A lot of tourists await us.
