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Description: | Cut shroud fragment with hieroglyphs painted scene depicting a dead woman, Tashay, being presented to Osiris-Sokar by Anubis. Roman period. Dated by hairstyle to 140-160 AD. 20x23 cm. Purchased by Henry Wellcome at auction in 1931. 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 Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 68, 228-252 and C Riggs unpublished PhD thesis and C Riggs unpublished PhD thesis and C. Riggs 2005 'The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt.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.
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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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