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THBLot of 2 Egyptian Cartonnage Fragments
Lot 1c
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
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Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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2018-07-05 10:00:00
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Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate to Late Dynastic Period, ca. 1070 to 332 BCE. A pair of cartonnage (linen or papyrus covered with plaster) panels, each depicting a winged sun goddess below a winged heart scarab beetle with a sun disk crown. Red, black, blue/green, and white pigment color the cartonnage surfaces, which would have been laid over the surface of a coffin and attached with natural adhesive. The scarab symbol needed to be placed over where the heart resided in the body, because the ancient Egyptians believed that the heart was the seat of the mind. After death, according to their beliefs, an individual's heart would be weighed against a feather by Anubis before a panel of deities who waited at the gateway to the netherworld to judge the dead. If the heart was lighter than a feather, then the deceased could pass into the next life; if not, they would be devoured by a monster and cease to exist. Size of one: 11.75" W x 9.1" H (29.8 cm x 23.1 cm)
The winged goddess Nut and her brother Geb, who was the god of the Earth, were the parents of isis, whose story is central to the resurrection of the god Osiris - who in turn was central to the written and painted symbols of resurrection of the dead that formed such a crucial part of Egyptian cosmology. Altogether, these cartonnages would have protected a mummy's coffin; the highly-trained artists who created it and the bereaved family members who commissioned it believed in the power of the symbols and words they painted to aid the deceased in the afterlife. All Egyptian funerary art was laden with symbolism that, by the Third Intermediate Period, had become ancient tradition. The fact that it was already ancient 3000 years ago is amazing!
Provenance: private New York, USA collection
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#134561Both pieces are fragments mounted on plastic backings, with some losses to the edges, plus repainted areas (mostly red).Condition
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