A bag of white linen, unopened

  

A bag of white linen, unopened. Contains rolls of linen only. Foundation deposit, Heb Sed Chapel at Lahun, Fayum, Egypt. 12th Dynasty. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London. With thanks to the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL.

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A Neolithic Egyptian textile excavated in Egypt

A Neolithic Egyptian textile excavated in Egypt © UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

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dress Tarkhan

 

Originally excavated by Egyptologist Flinders Petrie in 1913 from a First Dynasty tomb at Tarkhan (an Egyptian cemetery located 50km south of Cairo) this dress lay undiscovered with various other textiles until 1977, when the bundle was sent to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum for conservation work.

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shroud

This piece of painted material belongs to the category of "shrouds" and "votive cloths" which have been found in the funerary temple of Montuhotep II at Deir el-Bahari. The majority of fabrics show the male or female owner in the middle of presenting offerings to the <A HREF="God">goddess</A> Hathor. According to the iconographic details, one distinguishes different groups. The Brussels example belongs to the group which depicts the cow-goddess in a processional barque. Three small columns of hieroglyphs, which surmount the scene, mention the name of the owner and of the local <A HREF="God">goddess</A>.

DEIR EL-BAHARI

NEW KINGDOM: 18TH DYNASTY

L. Speleers, Recueil des inscriptions égyptiennes des Musées Royaux du Cinquantenaire à Bruxelles, Bruxelles 1923, 46 nº 162

Van dieren en mensen. Getuigenissen uit Prehistorie en Oudheid - Des animaux et des hommes. Témoignages de la Préhistoire et de l'Antiquité (Exposition), Bruxelles 1988, 178 nº 177

G. Pinch, Votive Offerings to Hathor, Oxford 1993, 111

KMKG - MRAH

Inventory number

E.2541

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clothing

UNSPECIFIED CLOTHING

WEST BANK

FLAX

WOVEN

19TH DYNASTY

Wsr-mAat-Ra stp-n-Ra

Imn mr  Ra-ms-ss

MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [05/027]

Inventory number 7951

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cloth

 

This cloth, which was part of the É. de Meester de Ravestein collection, bears the mark of the temple of Mentuhotep II. A detailed examination has shown that the fringed selvage, a characteristic which one finds on several cloths of the same category (compare E.6855), was not only decorative but also essentially technological.

THEBES: WEST BANK: DEIR EL-BAHARI: TEMPLE OF MENTUHOTEP NEBHEPETRE

MIDDLE KINGDOM: 11TH DYNASTY: MENTUHOTEP II/NEBHEPETRE

KMKG - MRAH [07/003]

Inventory number E.6876

J. Capart, Bandelettes et linges de momie, BMRAH 13 (1941) 29

B. van de Walle, L. Limme et H. De Meulenaere, La collection égyptienne. Les étapes marquantes de son développement, Bruxelles 1980, 59

D. De Jonghe e.a., Linnen doeken en mummiewindels van het Oude Rijk en het Middenrijk, BMRAH 56,1 (1985) 5-31

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Shroud of Osiris

 

Shroud of Osiris

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.

FLAX

WOVEN

Painted

La pièce est un don du Vicomte Abbate de Favigna.

ROMAN PERIOD

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

Comparer le fragment de linceul conservé au Musée du Louvre (Inv. AF 12135; Portraits de l'Égypte romaine (Exposition), Paris 1998, 64-65 nº 22).

Material:

Technique: Lin peint

Tissu de fond: chaîne: lin écru S: 17-22/cm

trame: lin écru S: 10/cm

État de conservation:

La partie inférieure du linceul a disparu.

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Inventory number E.5699

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