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Final updated May 18, 2012

Egyptian Museum in Cairo1

In that location are approximately 100 known hypocephali that have been preserved. 2 The following images are provided for convenience in comparing the similarities and differences between each hypocephalus. Some images are public domain, having been published in books, journals, and periodicals where copyrights have expired. Other images are used past permission and are copyright protected; my sincere appreciation to those who have immune me the privilege of posting these pictures. Whatsoever contributions to this mail service past way of submitting additional pictures taken or renditions thereof, volition be greatly appreciated, and contributions will, of course, exist attributed to the provider. Eventually I'd similar to have all known hypocephali available posted online here.

Sheshonq Hypocephalus (Facsimile 2 in the Book of Abraham);

Times and Seasons, 3/x (March 15, 1842):720-721;

Hypocephalus 8445 in the British Musuem (unnamed possessor);

PSBA 6 (14th Session, May 6, 1884):185; also bachelor

Tasherenkohns Hypocephalus 8445a British Museum 37909;

PSBA 6 (14th Session, February v, 1884):107; also available online

Hypocephalus 8445a, British Museum (unnamed owner) 37095;

PSBA six (14th Session, May 6, 1884):185

Hypocephalus 8445a, British Museum 37907 (unnamed possessor);

PSBA 6 (14th Session, Mar 4, 1884):129; also available

  Har Hypocephalus 8445c in the British Museum 35875;

PSBA 6 (14th Session, Jan 8, 1884):52

Neshorpakhered Hypocephalus 8445e, British Museum 36188;

PSBA half-dozen (14th Session, Mar 4, 1884):129; available online at:

Asiemkheb Hypocephalus 8445f in the British Musuem 37908;

PSBA 6 (14th Session, May 6, 1884):185; as well bachelor online at

Shai-enen Hypocephalus of the Henry Bruce Meux, Bart. Collection;

PSBA 6 (14th Session, Dec four, 1883):37; also published in Budge,

Egyptian Magic, 117; held in the Purple Museums of Fine art and History, Brussels,

Belgium, 6319, available online at Global Egyptian Museum (here).

Tatu Hypocephalus in the Louvre Museum

 PSBA 6 (14th Session, Mar 4, 1884):126

Harnetatf Hypocephalus 8446 in the British Museum, Henry Salt Collection;

PSBA 6 (14th Session, Apr 1, 1884):171; also available online at

The colors hither are semi-inverted; this hypo is black with yellowish inscription.

Takarheb Hypocephalus, National Archaeological Museum, Florence, Italy, 5704;

Archaeologia: or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 36 (1855):174

bachelor online at Global Egyptian Museum ( hither )

 Hypocephalus (bronze), Egyptian Museum in Cairo 10691 (unnamed owner);

Abydos, Part I (The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902), Plate LXXVI, Thousand.50.B;

bachelor online at Religious Education Archive (here)

Djed-Hor Hypocephalus from Abydos (bronze);

Abydos, Part I (The Arab republic of egypt Exploration Fund, 1902), Plate LXXVII, G.50.D;

Note: illustration excludes two individuals on the boat in the middle console

Zed-her Hypocephalus from Abydos (bronze), 37330 British Museum;

Abydos, Part I (The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902), Plate LXXVII, G.l.C

E.A. Wallis Budge identifies this hypocephalus as Tche-hra (or Tche-her) in:

British Museum: A Guide to the Start and 2nd Egyptian Rooms, 135 and

Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaeology, 477;

Hypocephalus from the Walter Myers Collection, England (unnamed owner);

PSBA vii (15th Session, Jun two, 1885):213

Hypocephalus from the Walter Fifty. Nash Collection (unnamed owner);

PSBA 19 (27 Session, Apr 6, 1897):146

Back of Hypocephalus from the Waler 50. Nash Collection (above);

PSBA 19 (27th Session, Apr six, 1897):146

Hypocephalus (unnamed possessor);

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,

33 (119th Session, May eight, 1899):472

Tashenkhons Hypocephalus from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford;

Tashenhapy Hypocephalus from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford;

Hypocephalus (unnamed owner);

(C) Petrie Museum (Academy Higher London); available online at:

Besides, in Petrie's, Amulets (1914), 111 (Plate Xx, 134b)

Back of Hypocephalus above from University College in London;

Amulets (Petrie 1914), 111 (Plate 20, 134a)

Hypocephalus (unnamed possessor);

(C) Petrie Museum (University Higher London); available online at:

Also, in Petrie's Amulets (1914), 111 (Plate 20, 134c)

Hypocephalus (unnamed onwer);

(C) Petrie Museum (University College London); available online at:

Hypocephalus, Victoria Museum of Egyptian Antiquities (unnamed owner);

Hypocephalus, British Museum 73705 (unnamed possessor); bachelor

Back of Hypocephalus, British Museum 73705; available

Hypocephalus, British Museum 74908, (unnamed owner);

 Ta(cyberspace)irt Hypocephalus, Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, Netherlands;

available online at Global Egyptian Museum ( here ) and Flickr ( hither );

used by permission.

Hypocephalus, Egyptian Museum in Cairo 10686 (unnamed owner);

available online at Religious Didactics Archive ( here );
used by permission, courtesy of D. Kelly Ogden.

Reverse of 10686 above;
M.1000. Daressy, Textes et Dessins Magiques, Pl. XIII

Hypocephalus, Egyptian Museum in Cairo 10688 (unnamed possessor);

available online at Religious Educational activity Archive ( hither );
used by permission, courtesy of D. Kelly Ogden.

Hypocephalus, Egyptian Museum in Cairo 10699 (unnamed owner);

available online at Religious Education Annal ( here );
used by permission, courtesy of D. Kelly Ogden.

Hypocephalus, Egyptian Museum in Cairo 10685 (unnamed owner);
used by permission, courtesy of D. Kelly Ogden.

Hypocephalus, Egyptian Museum in Cairo 10687 (unnamed owner);
used by permission, courtesy of D. Kelly Ogden.

Hypocephalus, Egyptian Museum in Cairo 10692 (unnamed owner);
used past permission, courtesy of D. Kelly Ogden; besides see Michael Lyon's
rendition in Affectionate Hypocephali as Works of Art and Faith , pg 26 (figure 12).

Hypocephalus, Egyptian Museum in Cairo 10700 (unnamed owner);
used by permission, courtesy of D. Kelly Ogden.

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i Image of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo is posted by permission, courtesy of James L. Carroll; per james.jlcarroll.internet ( hither ).

2 Hugh Nibley and Michael Rhodes, I Eternal Round (Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Immature University, 2010), 192, 230, 591; Hugh Nibley, "Figure half-dozen of Facsimile two," (Transcript of a lecture presented as part of the FARMS Brown Bag Lecture Series; Provo, UT: Foundation for Aboriginal Inquiry and Mormon Studies, 1995), 2-three; Michael Lyon indicates that there are approximately 150 known hypocephali; see Michael P. Lyon, " Appreciating Hypocephali as Works of Art and Faith ,"(FARMS Volume of Abraham Lecture Series; Provo, UT: FARMS, 1999), 6
iii  All references above to PSBA refer to the Proceedings of the Gild of Biblical Archaeology.

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