Textile
Shroud Fragment
| Object Number: | 36-2-1 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Ptolemaic Roman |
| Provenience: | Egypt |
| Period: | Ptolemaic Period Roman Period |
| Date Made: | 305 BCE-30 CE |
| Early Date: | -305 |
| Late Date: | 30 |
| Section: | Egyptian |
| Materials: | Linen Pigment |
| Technique: | Painted |
| Iconography: | Deities Demons Skeleton Osiris Anubis Jackal Deceased Funerary Text |
| Inscription Language: | Hieroglyphic |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from John Khayat, 1936 |
Description
Decorated Mummy Cloth, Inscribed Hor, son of Harsieset, born of Tedikhety(?), etc. (1936) Fragmentary funeary shroud of painted linen. 8 rows of scenes of deities facing a central image of the deceased in a mummiform shape (now largely destroyed. Interesting is a depiction of a black skeleton in line 2. There is a funerary text running along the side and bottom of the shroud.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Mummy Room ( Jun 1972 - 1979) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Searching for Ancient Egypt: (1997 - 1997) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Article] Omran, Wahid. 2020. "Virtuous or Wicked: New Occurrences and Perspectives on the Black Silhouette in Graeco-Roman Egypt". Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. Vol. 56. pg. 143-167 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 150-152, Figure 4 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Silverman, David P. 1997. Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum.. Cornell University Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 274-75 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Article] 1936. "An Egyptian Mummy Cloth". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 6. no. 4. pg. 118-120 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 118, pl. V | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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