mummie ; man

Unknown artist

Hor ; masker ; cartonnage ; polychromie Mummy of an adult, very heavy and hard and displaying well-defined anatomical details (e.g. the calves). The bandages are applied in close concentric windings with a considerable overlap and an exposed part of no more than 2-4 cm wide. On the front part of the mummy, the wrappings are stained black due to the application of resin. The linen is a medium-fine warp-faced tabby weave (about 24 x 12 threads/cm2). Several elements made of cartonnage (stucco and linen), much damaged and badly restored, lie on top of the wrappings. These comprise the following items, painted in red, blue, green, yellow, and black on white: - mask: face and ears gilt, lips red, eyes and brows black and white, row of black dots along the forehead. Blue semicircle surrounded by border with radial lines under the chin, presumably depicting a beard. Tripartite wig blue with a red and white border. There are nine horizontal ranges of a necklace between the front lappets: a succession of tabs, roundels, and petals, with drops below. The crown of the head has been decorated with a winged scarab (black with yellow lines, wings with three zones: red hatching, white, and black feathers) surmounted by a sun disk (red); - torso cover of tapering shape. Six sections from top to bottom, separated by block friezes: ba, facing right with wings spread out and claws holding disks, flanked by the two falcon-headed clasps of the collar and two kneeling goddesses with one hand raised; collar with eleven semicircular ranges of roundels, petals, and tabs with drops below; kneeling goddess, facing right, with hands holding feathers and extended wings, a disk on the head, and flanked by uraeus serpents and wedjat eyes; mummy on bier, flanked by two kneeling goddesses, with six vases below; five squatting demons with knives, all human-headed; serekh pattern. The last three sections are flanked by side-strips showing the four Sons of Horus, all human-headed; - leg cover: slightly tapering panel with rounded end and four successive sections, separated by block friezes. From top to bottom: mummy on bier, wings above, flanked by two mummiform figures (jackal-headed left, falcon-headed right) and two kneeling goddesses, eight vases below; seven squatting demons holding knives (various heads); five bulls recumbent on shrines; twenty ranges of roundels, petals, and tabs, surrounded by a border of triangular petals and with a central column for inscriptions (blank); - foot cover: top with eight squatting gods; two red feet, outlines and sandal straps white, nails gilt; block frieze around the sides, soles showing sandals with mosaic pattern in red, blue, and white.