Fabulous Egyptian Accents For Themed Rooms

By Clara Grant

Many people use Egyptian accents for themed rooms in their homes, and while this form of theming is becoming very popular it is not always easy to find articles relating to Egypt that are easily affordable.

There are many fabulous Egyptian accents available both off line and online, but they also come with fabulous prices attached. Nevertheless, if you know where to look, you can find a good selection of Egyptian items, such as busts and statues of Pharaohs and their queens and representations of Egyptian gods and goddesses. Also popular are Egyptians boxes in various sizes that are not only functional but look good sitting on a table or dresser.

Let’s have a closer look at each of these, and what’s available for your Egyptian themed room.

Pharaohs and Queens

Busts and statues of pharaohs and Egyptian queens are very popular Egyptian accents that are not only used in themed rooms, but as generally decorative items anywhere in your home. The three most famous are King Tutankhamun, and Queens Cleopatra and Nefertiti. Everybody knows of the famous gold funerary mask of Tutankhamun, found with his mummy by Howard Carter in 1922. This has been displayed all over the world.

You can get a life-size model of this mask to hang on your wall. Beautifully painted in gold and accurate colors, this 21 inch mask shows the Uraeus, representing the goddess Wadjet in the form of a cobra, and the vulture head on the brow along with the famous nemes headdress and divine beard worked in cloisonn . Everything is painted true to the correct coloring of the gold, lapis lazuli and cloisonn beading.

The beautiful Queen Nefertiti, royal consort of the Pharaoh Akhenaten and the mother of Tutenkhamun’s wife Ankhesenamun, is represented by her world-famous bust with blue royal headdress. Although her tomb has never been found, the famous painted limestone bust was unearthed in 1812 by a German, professor Borchardtt, and now lies in the Dahlem Museum in Berlin. It dates from 1365 BC, and you can purchase representations online at very affordable prices. It is available in a range of sizes, though a good size for a table would be just over 12 inches.

Busts and other representations of Cleopatra are also available to complement the above in your ‘Egyptian room’. Among these are busts of Queen Hatshepsut, daughter of the Pharaoh Tuthmosis I, and the first female to rule Egypt, and also of King Akhenaten and Ramses II, said to be the greatest of all pharaohs.

Gods and Goddesses

No Egyptian accents would be complete with some statues of Egyptian gods and goddesses, and there are many of them to choose from. The winged Isis is very popular, Isis being the wife of Osiris, the God of the Underworld. Together with their falcon-headed son Horus, these are the three main Egyptian deities after Amun Ra, the sun god. Depicted in gold, Amun Ra was named the God of Kings, and King of Gods, and his 16 inch statue is magnificent.

You can also get the statues of the other Egyptian gods, such as the jackal-headed Anubis, god of the dead, the crocodilian Sobek (water), Thoth (wisdom) with his Ibis head and Hathor, the Sky Goddess, often represented as a cow. These Egyptian accents can be collected together to display a whole range of Egyptian gods and goddesses.

Alternative, you can purchase a set of 18 – each 14-15 inches high. Imagine how magnificent they would look standing on an Egyptian-style table, overseeing their domain – your Egyptian themed room! You can also acquire these gods and goddesses as copies of wall reliefs and paintings that you can hang on your wall to emphasize the effect.

Egyptian Boxes

Copies of genuine Egyptian boxes are also very popular Egyptian accents. You will find many of these online, some in the form of pyramids or cartouche boxes. Cartouches were ellipses or round cornered plates containing messages or names and often attached to the sarcophagus of a mummy. One box is opened by a swivel cartouche with hieroglyphs stating: “Tut Ankh Amun (Perfect in the life of Amun), ruler of On (Thebes, now Luxor) of Upper Egypt.” This was found by his tomb, and you can purchase replicas online today.

Other boxes are available in various sizes, with representations of Pharaohs, gods and goddesses painted or engraved on the top and sides. They are not only beautiful Egyptian accents, but also useful for holding trinkets and jewelry, and each is a copy of a genuine Egyptian box found in the tomb of a pharaoh or a queen.

Any of these Egyptian accents would grace a room decorated and furnished in an Egyptian theme. However, they are also interesting in their own right – the originals have an interesting history, and each is a beautiful home accent that will grace any home, themed or not.

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