Results 11 to 20 of about 550 (143)
An assessment of multimodal imaging of subsurface text in mummy cartonnage using surrogate papyrus phantoms [PDF]
Heritage Science, 2018 Ancient Egyptian mummies were often covered with an outer casing, panels and masks made from cartonnage: a lightweight material made from linen, plaster, and recycled papyrus held together with adhesive.
Adam Gibson +24 more
doaj +4 more sources
Integrating optical imaging of mummy mask cartonnage [PDF]
Archiving Conference, 2018 This rapid development and testing project captured data from multiple digital imaging techniques to try to see texts in papyrus mâché mummy mask cartonnage layers. Prior studies by other scholars destroyed the masks to access the papyri, denying future researcher access to the primary historical artefacts. This international, multidisciplinary project
Toth, Michael +6 more
core +5 more sources
Using Interdisciplinary Studies and Analyses in the Conservation of Greco-Roman Cartonnage [PDF]
Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 2018 This paper describes the multi-analytical techniques and treatment processes that were undertaken in the conservation of two deteriorated cartonnages of the Greek- Roman period.
Firas Alawneh +2 more
doaj +2 more sources
Performing papyrology: Cartonnage, discovery and provenance
, 2023 This is the first study to address the history of the papyrological practice of disassembling mummy and other types of cartonnage to retrieve papyrus manuscripts hidden within. Through the discussion of cases dating from the nineteenth century to the contemporary, it argues that the extraction of papyri from cartonnage has fulfilled different aims ...
Roberta Mazza
core +3 more sources
The Blank Text Strips on the Third Intermediate Period Theban Coffins Applied on an Unpublished Cartonnage at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (TR. 5.11.16.4). [PDF]
مجلة کلية الآثار - جامعة القاهرةThis paper discusses and analyzes the potential reasons for the presence of blank text strips as a feature of some Third Intermediate Period Theban coffins, applied on an unpublished cartonnage stored in the Egyptian Museum's basement (TR.
Dina Mohsen
doaj +1 more source
, 2022 https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/international-collection/ancient-egyptian/funerary-egyptian-masks/ The Australian Museum acquired three cartonnage masks and a foot-case in the early 20th century.
Australian Museum (13519273) +1 more
core +1 more source
From Cartonnages to Cultural Contexts
Trends in Classics, 2023 Abstract During his excavations in the Fayum, between 1900 and 1902, Pierre Jouguet was able to find a large number of mummy cartonnages, which along with documents of various sorts yielded some surprising, previously lost literary texts, such as Menander’s Sicyonians, Euripides’ Erechtheus, and Stesichorus’ Thebaid.
openaire +2 more sources
The Mummy Trappings in the National Museum in Belgrade: A Reconstruction and Typological Assessment
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2019 In July 2009 the National Museum in Belgrade received – as a donation – two elements of a funerary assemblage: a fragmented mask and a conjoined collar-breast covering.
Branislav Anđelković +1 more
doaj +1 more source
From the Lab to the Field: 3D Technology Supporting Study and Conservation Processes on Ancient Egyptian Artefacts [PDF]
Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2018 In this paper we will report on the importance of 3D documentation as a tool for study and communication in Cultural Heritage, with particular reference to the experience grown up at Centro Conservazione e Restauro La Venaria Reale (in the text: CCR La ...
Paola Buscaglia +3 more
doaj
Études et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences)Among the more than 700 burials of the Late and Ptolemaic periods discovered by the Polish-Egyptian Archaeological Mission in Saqqara West, in the case of two burials the heads of the deceased were covered, respectively, with a vessel and half a vessel.
Małgorzata Radomska
doaj +1 more source