Egyptian Mummy Louvre 01
by Weston Westmoreland
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Egyptian Mummy Louvre 01
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Weston Westmoreland
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Photograph - Photograph
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Egyptian mummy. Louvre Museum, Paris.
Full view of the Egyptian mummy at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.
This mummy is particularly striking because of its mesmerizing intricacies of its head wrapping. In contrast to the usual winding, this mummy's face is covered with a geometric square pattern of interwoven linen stripes.
In addition to this unique binding, the mummy still dons the richly decorated and unusually well preserved cartonnage. His face was covered with a mask of regular features atop which a winged scarab, symbol of rebirth, was represented. The wide usekh collar with falcon-headed clasps covered his chest and was formed of several rows of beads. The apron featured various scenes arranged in registers, notably the mummy lying on a bed, surrounded by the goddesses Isis and Nephtys, and the four sons of Horus. Finally, the casing around the feet has two images of the funerary god Anubis.
The mummy belongs to a male adult named either Nenu or Pachery (his name was written hastily and can be read either way), who probably lived during the Ptolemaic Period of Ancient Egypt (305 BC to 30 BC), the period that began with the reign of Alexander the Great’s General Ptolemy and ended with the suicide of Cleopatra.
Through the mummification process, the body was settled in salt in order to dry it out, and after that was covered with resin and aromatic oils before being wrapped in strips of linen cloth.
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December 4th, 2020
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