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Toe and finger stalls Ancient Egypt Funerary object 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose III From the Tombs of the foreign wives of Thutmosis III at Qurna Material : Gold The gold finger and toe stalls must have been standard elements of a royal burial during this period, for similar ones were found on the hands and feet of the mummy of the King Tutanhkamun, who lived some 200 years later in the Dynasty. Text from: www.insecula.com/us/oeuvre/O0005062.html AND Gold sandals Ancient Egypt Funerary object 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose III From the Tombs of the foreign wives of Thutmosis III at Qurna Material : Gold The gold sandals in this case have been decorated to imitate ones made of tooled leather that would have by worn by the living. Text from: www.insecula.com/us/oeuvre/O0005063.html and Funerary Equipment Belonging to Three Foreign Wives of Thutmose III In this gallery one of the most comprehensive surviving sets of ancient Egyptian jewelry is exhibited. It was discovered, together with the vessels and other objects displayed here, in a rock-cut cave situated high up in the desert mountain cliffs of the Wady Gabbanat el-Qurud in western Thebes. The find encompassed the remains of the burials of three minor wives of King Thutmose III whose names, Maruta, Manhata, and Manuwai, written on the canopic jars, libation vessels and heart scarabs, are not Egyptian but in all probability Semitic. Maruta may, in fact, be the hieroglyphic version of the familiar Hebrew and Aramaic name Marta. According to the custom of the time the three women must have entered the pharaoh's household in the course of political transactions with a foreign ruler somewhere in the Levant. After a life in Egypt the three women were buried together according to Egyptian burial customs. The items displayed in this case were made for the funeral of the three ladies. Many of them fall easily into sets of three. But lacking inscriptions we do not know which queens owned which. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.