Hieroglyphs
Writing as art and art as writing: fifteen hundred objects carry the sacred script of ancient Egypt, from monumental stelae to amulets smaller than a thumbnail.
1,556 public-domain artworks from six world museums · free to view and download
Scarab of the Storehouse Overseer Wah
Arm Panel From a Ceremonial Chair of Thutmose IV
Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser
Relief of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and the Goddess Hathor
Medinet-Habu
John Beasley Greene, 1854
Torso of a High General
Block Statue of a Prophet of Montu and Scribe Djedkhonsuefankh, son of Khonsumes and Taat
Stelophorous Statue of Bay
Haremhab as a Scribe of the King
Chair of Reniseneb
Heart Scarab of Hatnefer
Unfinished Stela of Amennakht of Deir el-Medina
Votive stela of Userhat
Book of the Dead for the Chantress of Amun Nauny
Yuny and His Wife Renenutet
Coffin of Khnumnakht
Senwosret III as a Sphinx
Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the Name of Senwosret II
Reliefs from the Tomb of Nespekashuty
Magical Stela (Cippus of Horus)
Outer Coffin of the Chantress of Amun-Re Henettawy
Thot Ibiocéphale (Dieu des Lettres) à Philae
Maxime Du Camp, April 1850
Funerary Tablet of Horpaa, priest at Hermopolis and son of Djehutyhor
Worker Shabti of Nauny
Double Shabti of Khaemwaset and Mesyt
Inscribed element, Akhenaten
Fragments from a Book of the Dead
Ring Inscribed for Queen Tiye
Shabti of Yuya
Shabti of Yuya
Stamp seal with a handle and a hieroglyphic inscription
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Pairy
Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed for the God's Wife Hatshepsut
Ointment Jar
Door Jamb of Rau
Funerary Cone of Min
Spherical Jar Inscribed with Hatshepsut's Titles as Queen
Cowroid Inscribed with a Nefer Hieroglyph
Funerary Cone of the Steward Bak
Funerary Cone of the Wab-Priest Amenemhab
Brick Stamped with a Circular Seal
Funerary Cone of the Fourth Prophet of Amun Neferhotep
Funerary Cone of the King's Son of Kush Merymose
Funerary Cone of the Wab-Priest Neferkhawet
Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenhotep
Funerary Cone of a Woman Named Seniseneb
Funerary Cone of the Herald Ibety
Funerary Cone of the Royal Cup-Bearer Senemnetjer (?)