Museum Pieces - Painted funerary shroud

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The decoration of the shroud combines both traditional Pharaonic and classical elements. The amuletic collar at the top is flanked by Isis and Nephthys, and the lateral scenes in the lower section include the mummy on a bier, the presentation of the deceased to Osiris, and a range of Egyptian deities. In the centre is a figure of the deceased, bearded and wearing Roman dress, but flanked by Egyptian architectural features on which perch two falcons wearing the double crown of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.

Present location: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN
Inventory number: 1911:442
Dating: ROMAN PERIOD
Archaeological Site: HAWWARA
Category: CLOTH/SHROUD
Material: LINEN; GOLD
Technique: PAINTED; WOVEN; GILDED
Width: 52 cm

Bibliography
W.M.F. Petrie, Roman Portraits and Memphis IV, London 1911, pl. 12.1-2, p. 15.

(Photocredit: The Global Egyptian Museum)

(Photocredit: The Global Egyptian Museum)

(Photocredit: The Global Egyptian Museum)

(Photocredit: The Global Egyptian Museum)

Source: http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=2470