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Description: | Wooden painted beard, probably from a coffin. Green and yellow paint to represent a plaited beard and yellow line along the back. With peg. Repaired. 17cm long (including peg). The beard was considered to be a divine attribute of the gods, whose closely plaited beards were 'like lapis lazuli.' Accordingly, the king would express his status as a living god by wearing a 'false' beard secured by cord. Such beards were usually wider towards the bottom. It was usually after their death that a king was portrayed wearing the divine Osirid form of beard with upturned end, as on the gold death mask of Tutankhamun. Deceased non-royals are often shown with short, tuft-like beards.S.Quirk A.J.Spencer "The British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt." | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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