# Glossary of ancient Egypt artifacts

This is a glossary of ancient Egypt artifacts.

## Glossary of ancient Egyptian artifacts and materials

* Amulet – an amulet is an object that is typically worn on one's person, that some people believe has the magical or miraculous power to protect its holder.
* Ankh – a symbol of life held by Ra
* Benben stone (also known as a pyramidion) – the top stone of the Egyptian pyramid
* Canopic jar – vessel containing internal body organs removed during mummification
* Canopic chest – the common chest contained the four Canopic jars
* Cartonnage – papyrus or linen soaked in plaster, shaped around a body and used for mummy masks and coffins
* Cenotaph – an empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere
* Crook – a symbol of pharaonic power. Symbol of the god Osiris
* Faience – glasswork articles, amulets, etc.
* False door – an artistic representation of a door, a common architectural element in the tombs
* Flail – a symbol of pharaonic power. Symbol of the god Osiris
* Flint knife – prestige funerary good, from the Naqada period until the end of the Early Dynastic Period
* Funerary cone – small cones made from clay that were placed over the entrance of the chapel of a tomb, used almost exclusively in the Theban necropolis (Mesopotamia had clay nails)
* Headrest – found in tombs, etc. Typically personal, or a memorial headrest
* Imiut fetish – a religious object used in funerary rites; a stuffed, headless animal skin, often of a feline or bull, tied by the tail to a pole, terminating in a lotus bud and inserted into a stand
* Microlith – ancient Egyptian stone flakes
* Menat – an amulet worn around the neck. Also a musical instrument, a metal rattle (see also: sistrum)
* Menhed – a scribe's pallet
* Mummy – body after mummification
* Naos – religious shrine; portable shrine for carrying a god
* Ostracon – pottery sherd, limestone Sherd, used as writing material
* Cosmetic palette – slab of stone, sometimes decorated, used for preparing cosmetics. See: Narmer Palette; and: Category:Archaeological palettes.
* Papyrus – a material made from papyrus reeds, used as writing and painting material
* Pectoral (Ancient Egypt) – many forms. (Up to 13 additional Gardiner-unlisted determinative hieroglyphs for the "pectoral"; See Gardiner's sign list.)
* Rosetta Stone – A stone with three languages on it, which unlocked the Egyptian language
* Saqqara Bird – wooden bird model
* Sarcophagus – a funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved in stone
* Scarab – amulet or seal in the form of an abstract dung beetle
* Senet – a board game
* Shabti – figurines placed in the tomb as substitutes for the tomb owner in the next world
* Sphinx
* Pyramid – a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt
** Statuary – pharaonic and non-pharaonic. (Range of sizes.)
** Amulets – numerous, (and predynastic).
* Stele
** Boundary Stele – placed at boundaries.
** Memorial Stele – pharaonic or non-pharaonic.
** Monumental Stele – offered to gods, special individuals.
** Votive Stele – private, dedication.
** Victory Stele – pharaonic.
* Talatat – limestone wall blocks, at times painted.
* Ushabti – shabtis from the 21st Dynasty and later.