by mrvaldesogo | Dec 27, 2021 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt", Sin categoría
As we have seen in a previous post, the iconography of this coffin contains traditional images of Egyptian art to guarantee the resurrection of the deceased. In addition, in the previous post we exposed that the decoration was perfectly distributed on the surface. So,...
by mrvaldesogo | Oct 28, 2020 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt", Sin categoría
I would like to focus on an exceptional coffin located in the National Museum of Scotland. Because it contains a depiction of Isis and Nephthys, that well deserves a mention. 1. Some Information about the Coffin of “Qurna Queen”. Flinders Petrie discovered...
by mrvaldesogo | Oct 20, 2020 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
In this post I would like to focus on two wooden sculptures of Isis and Nephthys. They are nowadays in two different museums; one is in the Art and History Museum of Brussels and the other one in the Museum of Fine Arts of Budapest. Although they are noadays separated...
by mrvaldesogo | Jun 27, 2020 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
Pa-aton-em-heb (“The Sun Disk is in Feast”), was “Royal Singer” of the end of the Amarna period. It seems that his tomb was originally in Saqqara (although the location remains unknown) and was dismantled. Some blocks of the chapel are nowadays...
by mrvaldesogo | Mar 18, 2020 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"
Egyptian coffin was a good surface for decoration. And usually this decoration was quite standard. For example, goddess Nut was depicted on the chest of the mummy, or also on the inside part of the cover, some moments of the funerary ceremony were included in the...
