Textile
Shroud Fragment
36-2-2
From: Egypt
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
| Object Number | 36-2-2 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Ptolemaic | Roman |
| Provenience | Egypt |
| Period | Ptolemaic Period | Roman Period |
| Date Made | 305 BCE-30 CE |
| Section | Egyptian |
| Materials | Linen | Pigment |
| Technique | Painted |
| Iconography | Deities | Demons | Skeleton | Osiris | Anubis | Jackal | Deceased | Funerary Text |
| Inscription Language | Hieroglyphic |
| Description | Three large, and several tiny Fragments of a decorated Mummy Cloth, Inscribed Hor, son of Harsieset, born of Tedikhety(?), etc. (1936) Fragmentary funeary shroud of painted linen. One fragment belongs to the image of the wrapped mummy of Hor, originally located in the center of the shroud. This fragment has a portion of a hand holding a flail. The two other fragments are text bands, whose hieroglyphs face left, indicating that they belong on the right edge of the shroud. In order to minimize the blank space in the reconstructed shroud, these pieces were not included in the new mounting of 36-2-1. |
| Credit Line | Purchased from John Khayat, 1936 |
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