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Credits for the Finance Minister Maya PICTURING THE STORY: NARRATIVE ARTS AND THE STORIES THEY TELL CREDITS: STANDING FIGURE OF THE FINANCE MINISTER MAYA Standing Figure of the Finance Minister Maya, ca. 1330 BCE Egyptian, 18th Dynasty (1550–1295 BCE) Limestone, 33 9/16 x 11 in. R.T. Miller Fund, 1942.55 Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY Four scribes, bending forward, writing down something dictated by the pharaoh; from Saqqara. New Kingdom, late 18th dynasty, Amarna period, ca. 1350-1333 BCE. Limestone, painted. Museo Archaeologico NaZionale, FirenZe, Italy. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fragment_of_tomb_relief_depicting_four_scribes_a t_work.jpg Scribe's Palette, from Thebes. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1550–1295 BCE. Wood, ink. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1912, 12.181.203 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/554341 The Viceroy of Kush Amenhotep called Huy holding the long fan with the single feather indicating his rank as fan-bearer. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lepsius_tut.JPG Detail of Abtheilung III, Bild 115 (Division 3, Image 115) http://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/page/abt3/band6/image/03061150.jpg University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany The Karl Richard Lepsius Project digitiZed version of Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien (Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia), 1849–1859 by Karl Richard Lepsius (1810– 1884). http://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/. GuisesAmun.jpg Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library. "Amun." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1841. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-6f90-a3d9-e040- e00a18064a99 Maya before the god Osiris, from Maya's underground tomb chambers. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancient_Egyptian_art_from_Saqqara.jpg PICTURING THE STORY: NARRATIVE ARTS AND THE STORIES THEY TELL View of Saqqara looking south from the complex of Djoser; the Pyramid of Unas at right, the New Kingdom tombs beyond. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Pyramid_of_Unas_%28I%29.jpg Map of the necropolis of Saqqara. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Saqqara_map.jpg Figure 8.20 Plan of several New Kingdom tombs at Saqqara, including those of Horemheb and Maya. Source: Ian Shaw (ed.), The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 288 https://www.worldhistory.biZ/uploads/posts/2015-09/187q-125.jpg From: https://www.worldhistory.biZ/ancient-history/56974-8-10-elite-tombs-at-thebes-and- saqqara.html The Tomb of Maya when it was unearthed. Courtesy of Leiden Rijksmuseum. Originally at www.saqqara.nl/tombs/tomb-of-maya-found-in-1986/ This site has a critical error and will not load at all from this URL Located at 2 other sites: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fegyptianaemporium.wordpress.com %2F2014%2F10%2F21%2Ftuesday-tomb-saqqara-tomb-of-maya-and- meryt%2F&psig=AOvVaw3Hy0arWPhnmAagl_Ssj4Hq&ust=1609364991022000&source=ima ges&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCPi4z_6V9O0CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-2-W11/1025/2019/isprs- archives-XLII-2-W11-1025-2019.pdf Digital reconstruction of Maya's tomb. https://www.saqqara.nl/wp-content/uploads/DD2019-17.jpg From website of Friends of Saqqara, support group for Rijksmuseum's excavations in Saqqara, https://www.rmo.nl/en/research/excavations/saqqara/ This site has a critical error and will not load at all from these URLs The rays of the sun god Aten shine down on Akhenaten and one of his daughters; detail of an altarpiece of a shrine. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1345 BCE. From Amarna, Egypt. Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany. ÄM14145. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Akhenaten_with_one_of_his_girls,_detail_of_an_altar piece_of_a_shrine._God_Aten_and_his_cartouches_appear._C._1345_BCE._From_Amarna, _Egypt._Neues_Museum.jpg PICTURING THE STORY: NARRATIVE ARTS AND THE STORIES THEY TELL The golden funeral mask of king Tutankhamun. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutankhamun.jpg The goddess Hathor (right) embraces Horemheb; detail from the tomb of Horemheb at the Valley of the Kings. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_tombe_de_Horemheb_(KV.57)_(Vall%C3%A9e_d es_Rois_Th%C3%A8bes_ouest)_-2.jpg Lepsius.jpg Abtheilung III, Bild 240 (Division 3, Image 241) http://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/page/abt3/band7/image/03072410.jpg University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany The Karl Richard Lepsius Project digitiZed version of Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien (Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia), 1849 - 59 by Karl Richard Lepsius (1810- 1884). http://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/. Lepsius3.jpg Abtheilung III, Bild 240 (Division 3, Image 242) http://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/page/abt3/band7/image/03072420.jpg, University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany The Karl Richard Lepsius Project digitiZed version of Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien (Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia), 1849 - 59 by Karl Richard Lepsius (1810- 1884). http://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/. Dyad statue of Maya and Meryt, at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities), Leiden, Netherlands. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLANL_-_koopmanrob_- _Maya_en_Merit_(RMO_Leiden).jpg Examples of rectified and unfinished drawings on the walls of the tomb. The sketches are in red and the drawings in black. Sequences from the Book of Doors, one of the most important royal funeral collections of the New Kingdom. He appears for the first time in the tomb of Horemheb. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_tombe_de_Horemheb_(KV.57)_(Vall%C3%A9e_d es_Rois_Th%C3%A8bes_ouest)_-10.jpg PICTURING THE STORY: NARRATIVE ARTS AND THE STORIES THEY TELL Mallet & Chisel.jpg Wood mallet, ca. 1961 –1917 BCE; Egyptian MK, Dynasty 12 Memphite Region, Lisht South, Pyramid Temple of Senwosret I Metropolitan Museum of Art. (24.1.76). BronZe or copper alloy chisel,ca. 2051-2000 BCE; Egyptian MK, Dynasty 11 Found at Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb MMA 101. Metropolitan Museum of Art. (27.3.12) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/559637 Egyptian workmen dressing limestone blocks (from the tomb of Rekhmira, TT100). Percy E. Newberry, The Life of Rekhmara, plate XX, public domain. https://www.catchpenny.org/whobuilt.html Catchpenny Mysteries © copyright 2000 by Larry Orcutt. Jacqueline Schertz, American Sign Language Narrator; ASL Interpretation Credits: Video Production Courtesy of Rochester School for the Deaf, 1545 St. Paul Street, Rochester, NY 14621, www.rsdeaf.org Nick Giagios, TV Studio and English Language Arts Teacher; Zachary Hamilton, Student Production Assistant Narrated by Stuart Burke Audio Story Credits: Recorded by Michael Besaw, Langie Audio Visual Original story based on tomb and monument inscriptions concerning Maya. Every reasonable attempt has been made to identify owners of copyright. Errors or omissions will be corrected as soon as possible after notification. Picturing the Story: Narrative Arts and the Stories They Tell is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, with additional support from the New York State Council on the Arts. Support is also provided by Dominion, Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation, Thomson Reuters, Hammer Packaging, the Estate of Estelle B. Goldman and two anonymous donors. .
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