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Description: | Cut shroud fragment with hieroglyphs painted scene depicting a dead woman, Tashay, having her heart weighed, against the feather-standard of truth and righteousness in a scale by Thoth and Horus, while Thoth in his baboon form is sitting on the top of the scale. Dated by her hairstyle to 140-160 AD. 25 x 22.5cm. The woman wears a tunic with clavi. Purchased by Wellcome at auction in 1931. See See Griffiths, G. Gwyn 1982 Eight Funerary Paintings with Judgement Scenes in Swansea Wellcome Museum. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 68, 228-252 and C Riggs unpublished PhD thesis and C. Riggs 2005 'The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt. Art Identity and Funerary Religion' Oxford University Press, 218-221. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | 140 A.D.-160 A.D.
Roman Period
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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