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The Puzzle of Egyptian Art. Dismembering an Iconography to Understand it.

The Puzzle of Egyptian Art. Dismembering an Iconography to Understand it.

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,...
Hair and Movement in the Post-Amarna Period.

Hair and Movement in the Post-Amarna Period.

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...
The Senet Game: Three Steps to Eternity.

The Senet Game: Three Steps to Eternity.

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...

Funerary Mask of Artemidora: Solar and Osirian Resurrection.

by mrvaldesogo | Aug 21, 2019 | Blog "Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt"

Recently we posted about the decoration on the upper register of the funerary mask of Artemidora. In it, we could differentiate two main elements: to the mourning ritual (related to the osirian legend) at both ends of the scene and the solar resurrection in the...

The two Mourners in the funerary Mask of Artemidora.

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...
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