Egypt
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Egypt
Two thousand years later, still quite a woman
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How does a piece of art survive in near-perfect condition for almost 2,000 years?
You bury it.
“Egypt is the perfect place to preserve wood, fibers and mummies,” says Robert Cohon, curator of ancient art at the Nelson. “It’s dry, there are no plants or tree roots to interfere with the coffin, and there is no problem with moisture and humidity out in the desert.”
“Portrait of a Woman” at one time had been placed over the face of an Egyptian mummy. It depicts a woman of about 35. Given the jewelry she is wearing, she probably lived a comfortable life.
The piece is painted on smooth wood using the encaustic technique.
- Ethical Questions Haunt Museums’ Acquisition Of Antiquities
KansasCity.com (Steve Paul) When the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art announced last year that it had acquired a colorful, ancient Egyptian coffin, officials presented a small sheaf of paperwork affirming that all was on the up and up. This was no back-door,...
- Daily Photo - Hawara Mummy Portraits (petrie Museum)
The mummy portraits are lovely. It is almost impossible not to fall for them when you are face to face with the real thing, even if the Graeco-Roman period isn't really your field. Unlike the Pharaonic mummy masks these really make you feel that you...
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http://tinyurl.com/kebcj (IOL) "The face of a 2 300-year-old Egyptian mummy has been reconstructed as the elderly woman she was, wrinkles and all. The bust by Philadelphia forensic sculptor Frank Bender differs from most reconstructions, which typically...
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http://tinyurl.com/824zp "The famous Faiyum portraits are named after a fertile land in Roman Egypt peopled, during the first three centuries AD by a diverse community of Greeks, Romans, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians and Jews. One of the customs of those...
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http://www2.dailybulletin.com/entertainment/ci_3078984 Mildly amusing piece about one woman’s experience at the Tutankhamun exhibition - museums are just not her idea of a good time: "There were lots of people and it was the crowd that kept everything...