Inscription trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23

Inscription trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Period:Egypt, 3rd Intermediate Period, Dynasty 23
Dating:818 BC–712 BC
Origin:Egypt,
Material:Cartonnage (all types)
Physical:31cm. (12.1 in.) - 20 g. (.7 oz.)
Catalog:PLA.XL.00543

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Duamutef trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Faience amulet of Bastet, c. 750 BC.
Hapy trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Imhotep, vizier and architect of King Djoser
Imsety trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Inscription trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Isis trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Isis trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Nephtis trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Qebesenuef trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Scarab trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Udjat eye amulet-pendant, Dyn. 23
Udjat eye amulet-pendant, Dyn. 23

Links to others of type Other fragment of mummy trappings

Cartonnage with Isis, New Kingdom
Duamutef trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Hapy trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Imsety trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Inscription trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Isis trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Isis trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Mummy cartonnage, New Kingdom
Nephtis trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Qebesenuef trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
Scarab trapping for Baket, Dyn. 23
  This is one of the cartonnage trappings that once laid over the mummy of a dignitary named Baket. One final column of hieroglyphs was located along the sides of the mummy. This one reads: “may she give the base, Mut the mother, an invocation-offering, a hill of bread and beer, food and drink, until the ceiling, may she give it to row and be as to be” (imi pt ms mwt kaa sns hnkt hry sm hn imi s wn).

Although the colors and motifs are similar to those of Dynasty 18, this individual probably lived during the Third Intermediate Period, possibly during Dynasty 23.

This set of mummy trappings is catalogued as follows:
Item 534
Item 535
Item 536
Item 537
Item 538
Item 539
Item 540
Item 541
Item 542
Item 543
Item 544

They were acquired in 1975 from the MacGarule-Munn collection.

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 (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.






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