Fragment of mummy cartonnage

Fragment of mummy cartonnage

COFFIN/SARCOPHAGUS/CARTONNAGE

NEW KINGDOM

This fragment of mummy cartonnage, which dates from the New Kingdom, depicts the upper part of a standard on which a ram crowned with two feathers and a sun disk is standing. The sacred animal of the god Amun and the god Khnum formed part of the iconography of funerary equipment from the New Kingdom on.

L. Limme, La collection égyptienne des M.R.A.H. Notes additionelles sur les étapes marquantes de son développement, Cd'É 64 (1989) 102

KMKG - MRAH

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