The artists in ancient Egypt used the bending hair for drawing body movements. The Egyptian artists in Amarna could also depict hair in a more plastic and less rigid way. In fact that followed one of the identity signature of the art of Amarna: more dynamic and natural. And maybe there were a contribution from Amarna to traditional iconoraphy on that subject.
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In Ancient Egypt many verbal and artistic expressions were used to refer to the entrance of the deceased into the Hereafter with goddess Hathor as mentor.
Continue reading →In Ancient Egypt groups of common mourners walked during funerary processions making many gestures of lament: raising arms, beating their arms…One of the most typical gestures of these mourners was to pull from their lock of hair. We can watch this typical mourning movement in two dimensional depictions, as for instance the mastaba of Mereruka […]
Continue reading →It seems that in Ancient Egypt there were a relationship between the hair element and some rites of Heliopolis. The funerary texts show that the hair, the lock of hair and the cut of this lock of hair were somehow connected with religious practices of this ancient Egyptian city. The festivities of snwt and dnit were important lunar […]
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