mummy

Examples of mummy in the following topics:

• Encaustic

  • The technique was notably used in the Fayum mummy portraits from Egypt 100-300 CE , in the Blachernitissa and other early icons, as well as by numerous 20th-century North American artists, including works by Jasper Johns, Tony Scherman, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Mark Perlman, and Fernando Leal Audirac.
  • An example of a Fayum mummy portrait dating from approximately the 3rd century.

• Tempera

  • Tempera and encaustic painting techniques were discovered on many Egyptian sarcophagi decorations, including the Fayum mummy portraits .
  • The Fayum mummy portraits used a combination of encaustic and tempera techniques.

• Tutankhamun and Ramses II

  • Discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter and George Herbert, his tomb, mummy, and artifacts sparked a renewed public interest in ancient Egypt .
  • His death may have occurred unexpectedly, before the completion of a grander royal tomb, so that his mummy was buried in a tomb intended for someone else.
  • His mummy still rests in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, though is now on display in a climate-controlled glass box rather than his original golden sarcophagus .

• Tombs

  • This involved removing the internal organs, wrapping the body in linen, and burying the mummy in a rectangular stone sarcophagus or wooden coffin.
  • The Opening of the Mouth Ceremony was a ritual involving the symbolic animation of a mummy by magically opening its mouth so that it could breathe, speak, eat, and drink in the afterlife.
  • Many mummies were provided with some form of funerary literature, often consisting of spells and instructions for navigating the afterlife.

• The Pyramids of the Old Kingdom

  • This involved removing the internal organs, wrapping the body in linen, and burying the mummy in a rectangular stone sarcophagus or wooden coffin.
  • The Opening of the Mouth Ceremony was a ritual involving the symbolic animation of a mummy by magically opening its mouth so that it could breathe, speak, eat, and drink in the afterlife.
  • Many mummies were provided with some form of funerary literature, often consisting of spells and instructions for navigating the afterlife.

• Ceremonies

  • Once the mummification process was complete, the mummy was carried from the deceased person's house to the tomb in a funeral procession that included his or her friends and relatives, along with a variety of priests.
  • Then the mummy was buried and the tomb sealed.

• Hatshepsut

  • Her mummy was discovered in the Valley of the Kings by Howard Carer in 1903, although at the time, the mummy's identity was not known.
  • In 2007, the mummy was found to be a match to a missing tooth known to have belonged to Hatshepsut.

• Art and Literature in the Roman Republic

  • A large number of Fayum mummy portraits, bust portraits on wood added to the outside of mummies by the Romanized middle class, exist in Roman Egypt.

• Architecture of the New Kingdom

  • His death may have occurred unexpectedly, before the completion of a grander royal tomb, so that his mummy was buried in a tomb intended for someone else.
  • His mummy still rests in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, though is now on display in a climate-controlled glass box rather than his original golden sarcophagus.

• Tomb of Ramose

  • Ramose and Hatnofer were buried in the tomb along with six other anonymous poorly-wrapped mummies (three women and three unknown children), who are assumed to be family members of the couple.