by mrvaldesogo | Mar 22, 2020 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
There are in museums small pieces from ancient Egypt, which are hardly paid attention. And usually they are very valuable. Sometimes because they offer relevant information, other times because they invite us to reflect. Wall Painting E2380 of RMAH in Brussels. This...
by mrvaldesogo | Dec 18, 2019 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
The Senet game of Ancient Egypt was a board game for leisure in common life, which also had its funerary side. It was present in the wall decoration and was part of the funerary equipment. According to it, the deceased played against the death and once he or she...
by mrvaldesogo | Aug 19, 2019 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
We know how important was the decoration on the corpse in Ancient Egypt. The egyptian artist selected the most effective iconography for the benefit of the deceased. Among the most requested images were those of the two mourners Isis and Nephthys. Because, in their...
by mrvaldesogo | Apr 23, 2015 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
Cartonnages in Ancient Egypt were used over the wrapped mummy mainly for mummy masks and some important parts of the body. The cartonnage of Irtirutja in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York dates from the Ptolemaic period. In it one can see how the artist of...
by mrvaldesogo | Mar 19, 2015 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
Tha artist in Ancient Egypt followed the rule of depicting children with the side lock of hair. However, this archetype so common in the Old and Middle Kingdom, had some changes from the New Kingdom on. It is specially evident in the mourning scenes. Among the...
