UNSPECIFIED FRAGMENT OF MUMMY TRAPPINGS

UNSPECIFIED FRAGMENT OF MUMMY TRAPPINGS
PAINTED ON STUCCO
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
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Cartonnage. Long band, placed on the legs of a mummy, with a column of text containing a prayer to Osiris for daily offerings on behalf of the singer of Ptah Aset-em-kheb daughter of Ta-kha-Kas. On each side of the column of text are depictions of eight mummiform gods. The two upper pairs are the four canopic gods. The style of the representations and the names point to the Ptolemaic Period.
Katalog "5000 Jahre Ägyptische Kunst", Wien (1962), Nr. 152.
Seipel, W. (ed.), Götter Menschen Pharaonen, Speyer (1993) = Dioses, Hombres, Faraones, Ciudad de México (1993) = Das Vermächtnis der Pharaonen, Zürich (1994) , Nr. 199.
Hüttner, M., Mumienamulette im Totenbrauchtum der Spätzeit, Afro-Pub, Beiträge zur Ägyptologie 12 (1995) 89.
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