linen cloth

This fragment in linen cloth, which dates from the Roman Period, is the upper part of a large shroud representing the god Osiris mummiform. The oval face has two black eyes elongated by a cosmetic line and a large nose. On the cheeks two bandages descend which serve to fix the false beard. The body is wrapped in an envelope of netting in dark red and decorated black and blue. The god, who is dressed in the atef-crown, wears a wesekh-collar and a pectoral in the form of a naos. The face of Osiris is framed by two kneeling mourners; they are probably a representation of Isis and Nephthys. The shroud is also decorated with djed-pillars and small papyrus columns. This type of shroud, of which the iconography is certainly of pharaonic tradition, is rather rare.

ROMAN PERIOD

Inventory number E.5699

KMKG - MRAH

M. Rassart-Debergh (Éd.), Arts tardifs et chrétiens d'Égypte (Exposition Louvain-la-Neuve ), Le Monde Copte 14-15 (1988) 34 nº 44

Égyptiennes. Étoffes coptes du Nil (Exposition), Mariemont 1997, 134 nº 3

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