The Lila Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art
Artemidora
The mask portrays a young women lying flat as if she was upon her hair. 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 ancient and traditional fashion. She wears a dark red tunic with black stripes edged in gold. The jewelry includes snake bracelets and gold ball earrings.
Attached to the wrapping of the mummy are gold fabric figures of Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys. On the bottom of the foot is an image of Anubis holding the disk of the moon. Set in a foreground above this is a Greek funerary inscription saying, Artemidora daughter of Harpokres. Artemidora died at the early age of 27. This mummy was painted and mummified in the early A.D. 100.
What inspired me to pick this work of art was that the designs on the cloth were very appealing and......
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