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Painted cartonnage panel from a mummy

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Painted cartonnage panel from a set of mummy-casings, with rough depictions of a series of three squatting and one standing mummiform gods. The crude drawing of the second figure from the right, wearing the sun-disk, indicates a date in the Ptolemaic or early Roman Periods, as does the choice of pink for one of the vertical dividing bands. A beaded base-line of alternating red and blue rectangles between white-black-white segments appears to mark the border of the panel.

Present location

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN

Inventory number

L1030:118

Dating

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD ?

Archaeological Site

THEBES: WEST BANK

Category

COFFIN/SARCOPHAGUS/CARTONNAGE

Material

GESSO; LINEN

Technique

PAINTED

Width

18.5 cm

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