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Tetisheri
@tetisheriphoto.bsky.social
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Photographer specialising in heritage and ancient Egyptian artefacts. Publications Manager at the Egypt Exploration Society. Also neurodivergent and living with MECFS.
Also at https://tetisheri.co.uk and https://tetisheri.substack.com. She/her.
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My #Egyptology friends here may recognise this fabulous small limestone ostracon, from Campbell Price's social media accounts.

The artwork depicts a funeral, and it's the subject of my next Artefacts in Focus article, dropping tomorrow morning at tetisheri.substack.com
#FindsFriday #AncientEgypt
A roundish shard of limestone with a sketched drawing in black ink. The drawing depicts and Ancient Egyptian funeral, with mourners, priests and tomb workers. The tomb has burial chambers at the bottom of a vertical shaft.
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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My youngest decided a trip to the World Museum was her chosen activity for her birthday (that's my girl!), so while she and her gaggle of teens are wandering around the various exhibits, I've set up camp in the Egyptian galleries. There could be worse ways to spend my Saturday morning …
One of the Egyptian galleries with visitors wandering around.
October 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Plant shadows.
#TinyJoys
Shadows of two thin branches with small leaves on a white wall. In the bottom right corner is a paper sculpture of a lighthouse in a glass round-topped case.
September 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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We didn't get to see much of the #LunarEclipse tonight, because we had to wait for the moon to rise above the houses across the street, but we managed to see a bit of it before the shadow of the earth disappeared.
The full moon with the shadow of the Earth covering the top left quarter.
September 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Six years ago, I photographed this rather beautiful fish-shaped greywacke palette for the Garstang Museum of Archaeology's Before Egypt exhibition. It was found at the Hierakonpolis Fort Cemetery in Egypt, and dates to the Predynastic Period (c.4000–3000 BCE). #AncientEgypt #Egyptology
The palette is oval and flat, and grey in colour. It has holes for stringing on the top centre, and where the eye would be. It has lines etched into the surface along the back, denoting the dorsal fin, and on the tail.
August 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Charlcombe Church – a Norman church, and the smallest in Bath – with the late afternoon sun flooding through the Victorian-era stained-glass windows.
#TinyJoys
The south end of a small church with a double stained glass window and a candelabrum hanging from the ceiling. The interior of a small church, looking south to north. There are stone plaques on the wall and in the foreground is stone font.
August 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Six years ago today I embarked upon the first of many sessions photographing artefacts in the collection at Manchester Museum for their Golden Mummies of Egypt exhibition. Having a trolley full of objects wheeled up to my photography corner in the museum stores was just utter joy!
A blue, wheeled trolley with three trays of small Roman-era Egyptian artefacts. There are ceramic pots and statuettes, and a few pieces of jewellery.
July 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Just been reminded of some of my absolute favourite photography: Don McCullin's photography of culture and heritage, particularly of ancient sites like this one from the pyramids of the ancient kingdom of Kush (now part of Sudan). 1/2
#Photography
Don McCullin's photo of ancient pyramids in Sudan. In the foreground is a sand dune with a man on a camel. The pyramids are visible dropping behind the sand dune.
July 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Good morning! It's a lovely sunny morning here in Liverpool, and the garden's already buzzing with life 😍
#TinyJoys
A pink flower in a pot with the morning sun shining on it. A flowering purple buddleia in the morning sunshine with a bee buzzing next to it.
July 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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This time 2 years ago I was busy photographing artefacts at the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social for their Creatures of the Nile exhibition, including this gorgeous little 2cm amulet of a hare. Composite image made from 140 photos using focus stacking & exposure bracketing. 📷 © me
#AncientEgypt #TinyJoys
A faience amulet of a recumbent hare with its long ears lying flat along its back.
June 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Today, I caught (briefly) a hummingbird hawk-moth in the garden, darting about at high speed, filling its belly with nectar from our honeysuckle. (Video is at ¼ speed.)

#TinyJoys
June 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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'Fury friend' ...
Text message reading 'Booking confirmed at [redacted]. Don't forget to let us know if you're bringing a fury friend to confirm you dog friendly table.
June 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Helios (scale model of the sun) at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral today ☀️

They even gave us beanbags to lie on 😌
A scale model of the sun in Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. It's hanging from the ceiling and has people lying on orange beanbags on the floor underneath it.
May 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Back in April 2018, I bought a new macro lens: the Fujifilm XF 80 mm.

This photo, of an amulet of the sun god Re as a falcon-headed man, is one of the first images I made with the lens and I fell in love. Seven years later, it's still my faithful workhorse and one of my favourite lenses.
#TinyJoys
The top half of a blue faience Egyptian amulet of a man in a striding pose, wearing a pleated kilt. He has a falcon's head and wears a wig and a sun-disk headdress.
April 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Leaves pinging open and buds appearing on my potted apple trees always raise my spirits. Plus, we have a new insect hotel ready for some tiny visitors 🐝
#TinyJoys
New leaves and blossom buds on the branches of a small tree. In the background is a red-brick wall with a small, house-shaped insect hotel filled with small wooden tubes
April 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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So that's it, everything's charged, cleaned, packed and ready for my first artefact photography session in 21 months. I'm so excited to be going to the Garstang Museum tomorrow.
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A camera tripod in a black carrier case and a black suitcase standing in front of a set of shelves.
March 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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#OTD in 2019 I photographed this 23 cm-tall Predynastic black-topped redware vessel with a small glyph inscribed in the centre. Originating from ancient Nekhen (Hierakonpolis), I photographed it for the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social exhibition Before Egypt. Feels so long ago now ...
#AncientBluesky
A tall, cylindrical ceramic vessel, mostly red with a thick band of black around the top. The inscription is a ladder-shaped glyph scratched into the surface.
March 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Man on roof.

#Photography #Silhouette
Silhouette of a man working on the roof of a terraced house.
March 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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I got out to the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social again yesterday (hooray!) and spent a little time leafing through some boxes of amulets, making a to-photograph list.

Proper update coming shortly, including details of the first amulet I'll be photographing next month 😊

#AncientEgypt #Egyptology
A shallow plastic box containing ancient Egyptian amulets.
February 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Caught a lovely view out of the living room window of the crescent moon and Venus just after sunset this evening.
#TinyJoys
A darkening sky with Venus shining just above a crescent moon. The roof of a house and power lines are in the left of the photo
February 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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This morning, I've been working on a photo of this happy chappie in the collection at the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social. I think he's quite pleased it's Friday. But, who is he ...?
#AncientEgypt #Egyptology
A screenshot of a photo being edited in Affinity Photo. The photo's of the head of a faience Egyptian amulet in the form of a man with achrondroplastic dwarfism.
January 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Look at me! I went Out Of The House today for a visit to the @garstangmuseum.bsky.social for a catch up with sorely missed friends and to test the water to see how I felt spending a bit of time there. Tired now (and will be tomorrow), but so happy to have done it 😊
#ChronicIllness #MECFS
A selfie of me standing outside the main entrance to the Garstang Museum of Archaeology in Liverpool.
January 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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My husband found this for me on our local buy nothing site this morning.

I love me a bit of chintzy Egyptology-related shelf-crap 😁
#TinyJoys #Egyptology
January 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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One of our local representatives of Bast looking fine in the low, January sun 😻
#Caturday
The silhouette of a cat sitting on a wall.
January 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Fascinating stuff! Having been involved in the early stages of this project, it's great to see the ongoing work that bridges history, archaeology and art, putting a spotlight on the dispersed lives of both people and artefacts.
📷 © Julia Thorne
Five ancient bronze arrow heads laid out in a row.
January 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM