Artemidora, 90-100. From Meir. Mummy. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. The mask portrays a young woman lying flat
Artemidora, 90-100. From Meir. Mummy. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. The mask portrays a young woman lying flat as if upon her bier. Her hair is arranged in tiers of snail curls over her forehead. Alongside her face flows a black Egyptian-style wig, the long locks bound with narrow rings of gold in pharaonic fashion. She wears a dark red tunic with black clavi (stripes) edged in gold. The jewelry includes snake bracelets and gold ball earrings. At the back of the head is support decorated with imagery signifying rebirth, including a dark blue glass scarab beetle. Attached to the wrappings of the mummy are gold appliqué figures of Osiris, Isis and Nephthys. On the bottom of the foot is an image of Anubis bearing the disk of the moon. Set in a tabula ansata above this is a conventional Greek funerary inscription, "Artemidora, daughter of Harpokras, died untimely, aged 27. Farewell." scans of the mummy likewise suggest an age of 25 to 30.
Size: 3401px × 5120px
Photo credit: © Sergi Reboredo / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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