shroud
- Museum number
- EA6705
- Description
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Linen shroud of Soter, Archon of Thebes, removed from coffin, rectangular, painted with a polychrome representation of Osiris, mummified, with face, neck, pectoral and collar gilded; Horus and Thoth, above, pour water over the figure; Isis and Nephthys are shown kneeling in mourning; Four Sons of Horus below; the whole is surrounded by a representation of a large snake, with tail in mouth; vertical register of hieroglyphs, down centre of Osiris figure, including the names and titles of Soter.
- Production date
- 100-120 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 235 centimetres (max)
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Width: 78.50 centimetres (max)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Published:
S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Fayum. Misteriosi volti dall'Egitto, London 1997, pp. 178-179 [136].
Riggs, Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt (2005): 183, 185-7, figs. 87 and 88, 188 Gis. 89, 191, 193, 194, 196, 201, 202, Fig.. 98, 229, 238, 280-1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1835
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA6705
- Registration number
- .6705.a
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.6705.a (Birch Slip Number)
