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Description: | Stone mould for bird with plummed head. Probably a benu bird. 125mm long. A very similar object appears as a benu bird (phoenix) in Aufrere S., 1987 'Collections Egyptiennes. Collections des Musees department aux Seine-Maritime', Number 196. Because the item has two plumes and because of the position of its wings it looks more like a benu bird than a lapwing. For information on the benu bird see: Tolmatcheva, E.G., 2003. A reconsideration of the Benu-bird in Egyptian Cosmogony. In Hawass, Z. and Brock, P.L. 2003., 'Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century' Vol. 2, 522-526. George Steindorf 1946 'Egyptian Sculpture In the Walters Art Gallery' published by the Trustees, Baltimore. Speaks of 360, a Heron mould. 'Similar moulds were put into tombs of the later period at the necropolis of Memphis; purpose and religious significance unknown'. There were also a number of such moulds found at Abydos, belonging to the Late Period (Peet, 1914, 'The Cemeteries of Abydos' II, 96, fig. 58, pl. XXL). Some have suggested that such moulds were used to make faience or glass figures. However, it also been suggested that these moulds which mainly take the form of resurrection related figures such as benu birds, eggs and Osiris figures could symbolise rebirth through the moulding of the mummy. An intact mould containing mummy material was found in the Late Period grave of the Chief Steward of the God's Wife of Amun, Nitokris II (Bietak, M and Reiser-Hauslauer, E. 1982 'Das Grab des 'Anch-hor Obermeister der Gottesgemahlin Nitokris II' p 189, pl. 123). See also EC660, EC2026 and EC2027. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | Late Period | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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