Gilded cartonnage collar, New Kingdom

Period: Egypt, New Kingdom, New Kingdom Dating: 1570 BC–1070 BC Origin: Egypt, Material: Cartonnage (all types) Physical: 26.2cm. (10.2 in.) - 115 g. (4.1 oz.) Catalog: PLA.XL.00552 Links to other views: ⇒ Larger View ⇒ Close-up (detail) if scripting is off, click the ⇒ instead. • • • Links to others from New Kingdom Bronze feather, horn and cobra, N. K. Bronze of a king as Nefertem, N.K. Bronze of a king as Orisiris, Dyn. 18-19 Bronze statuette of Apis, New Kingdom Hathor as a woman, cow headed, N.K. Horus, Lord of the Two Lands. N.K. King wearing the nemes, New Kingdom Large amulet of Pataikos, Dyn. 20-21 Mummy foot casing, New Kingdom Mummy foot casing, New Kingdom Oxyrynchus sacred fish, New Kingdom Scarab with God Khonsu, Dyn. 18 Shawabti in elaborate dress, 1340-1220 BC Staff finial,Tefnut rearing up, Dyn. 20-21 Wooden statuette of Anubis, New Kingdom

This gilded cartonnage collar once rested on the chest of the mummy, just below the mask. Under the wing tips of the scarab are seated representations of Hor-Ma-Khis with solar disks. Below the scarab, in the center panel, is a seated Osiris facing a standing figure praying to him. This mummy cartonnage set is cataloged here as follows: number 558 number 552 number 551 number 550 Cartonnage Cartonnage was a material used in the production of personal funerary ornamentation (masks, pectorals, foot casings, and sometimes whole coffins). It was made with several layers of linen glued together and shaped in a mold. The resulting shell was usually coated on one side with gesso (a mixture of glue and whiting plaster). This smooth medium was well suited to detailed painting and gold leafing. Although earlier examples are known, it is around Dynasty 18 that cartonnage became a material of choice, and it remained a popular medium though the roman period. In later times, the linen layers were sometimes replaced with recycled papyrus documents. Many of the papyri currently studied by Egyptologists were recovered from cartonnage. Bibliography (for this item) Khalil, Hassan M. 1976 Preliminary Studies on the Sanusret Collection. Manuscript, Musée l’Egypte et le Monde Antique, Monaco-Ville, Monaco. ((III) 365- 373) Bibliography (on Cartonnage) Duke University, 1991 Duke Papyrus Archive. http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/, Durham, NC. Lucas, A., and J.R. Harris 1999 Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries (unabridged republication of the 1962 fourth edition by Edward Arnold Publishers). Dover Publications, New York, NY.