by mrvaldesogo | Mar 26, 2019 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
Isis and Nephthys are the most preeminent figures on the decoration over the mummy of Artemidora. Over the wrappings of the feet, two appliqués of gold depicted these two goddesses Isis and Nephthys on the feet of the mummy of Artemidora. Photo: www.metmuseum.org...
by mrvaldesogo | Mar 21, 2019 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
In the ancient Egyptian funerary belief, Isis and Nephthys were crucial for the death resurrection. Two professional mourners in the role of Isis and Nephthys played mourning ritual over the mummy (Osiris). With it, the corpse recovered all the vital functions, which...
by mrvaldesogo | Sep 4, 2017 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
Let’s start with that: women were crucial in Ancient Egypt for the dead’s resurrection. The rite of the professional mourning ritual in ancient Egyptian funerals was based on the Osirian theology. That happened becasue in the belief of Ancient Egypt the dead (Osiris)...
by mrvaldesogo | Feb 22, 2016 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
The artists of Ancient Egypt had a particular conception of perspective, which affected in the way they depicted groups of living beings and amounts of things. In our last posts we saw how in Ancient Egypt the funerary scene of Osiris being flanked by Isis and...
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...