Credits for the Finance Minister Maya

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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.

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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/.

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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.

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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

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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.

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The golden funeral mask of king Tutankhamun.

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The goddess Hathor (right) embraces Horemheb; detail from the tomb of Horemheb at the Valley of the Kings.

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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/.

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Abtheilung III, Bild 240 (Division 3, Image 242) http://edoc3.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/lepsius/page/abt3/band7/image/03072420.jpg,

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.

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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)

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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.

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