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Description: | ; Date(s): 1 - 100; Classification(s): funerary equipment, cartonnage; Acquisition: given by Egypt Exploration Fund [E.103a.1911]
Description: Upper cartonnage mummy cover with head and upper part of the torso of a man moulded in plaster over bandages and reeds. The man wears a toga, with stouped hem over his head; he has a shock of curly hair left showing at the front. His hands are crossed on his chest - he holds a floral garland in his right and papyrus roll in his left. Around the top of the head is a band in an oval red stone or piece of glass in the centre and perhaps a garland. Both inlaid eyes are lost and right eye has suffered considerable damage. The whole surface is guilded except for the floral bouquet which is painted pink, the papyrus roll - white, the eyebrows - black, the hem of the tip red and the back of the head was painted Egyptian ivory sohwing the 4 sons of Horus - 2 on either side of the head; top of the head a winged beetle and a goddess with outstretched winged arms holding feathers and decorated pot on her head. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | cartonnage funerary equipment | Temporal: | name=Roman; start=1; end=100 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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