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Description: | Cartonnage fragment decorated with double-winged animal wearing rams horns and solar disc. The animal bears the deceased on its tail. In front of it is an offerring table. The animal perhaps represents the ram headed-sun-god and/or one of the winds. A similar animal is shown on Soter's coffin (see Christina Riggs 2005, 'The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt. Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion' Oxford University Press, fig. 87). Graeco-Roman Period. See W871 and W872 which are part of the same artefact, and W945 which shows a similar winged animal. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | Graeco Roman | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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