DOI article:
Dolińska, Monika: Looking for the Baste Iret: the Cartonnage from the Collection of Michał Tyszkiewicz
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18950#0033
5. Golden objects from
the Tyszkiewicz collection
(ofter J. Tyszkiewicz,
Jyszkiewiciana..)
two finger rings and a splendid necklace of the same materiał set with
carnelians were found on the appropriate places of the body. A golden piąte
with hieroglyphic text lay on a breast, a bracelet madę of strung amethysts
and carnelians and another one in the shape of a serpent adorned her arms.
A crystal figurę of idol Sawak lay at her feet. Overjoyed at this beautiful and
rich prize I decided to dig on in this promising valley and I sent generous
baksheesh to my workmen to encourage them to further efforts and
searching.”
“A case madę of glued linen” is certainly a cartonnage, and very probably
- our cartonnage. As a matter of fact, several other mummies appear in the
story spun by Tyszkiewicz,3 but nonę of them, it seems, was eąuipped with a
cartonnage - at least Tyszkiewicz doesn't mention any. One would like to
know what happened to the golden jewels, but the description is so scanty
that any attempt at identification must remain a hypothesis. On the piąte in
the book (ill. 5) written by Józef Tyszkiewicz,4 the son of count Michał, we
can see golden jewels; among other things a splendid pendant inlaid with glass
and lapis lazuli, shaped like a ram-headed deity seated on a lotus flower.
Is this the “idol madę of lapis lazuli” mentioned by Tyszkiewicz? This object,
presently in the Louvre, is dated to the Third Intermediate Period and its
closest parallels come from the 22nd Dynasty.5 Another object of the same
3 Ibid., pp. 159, 241, 253, 367.
4 Józef Tyszkiewicz, Tyszkiewiciana: militaria, bibliografia, numizmatyka, ryciny, zbiory,
rezydencje etc. etc., Poznań 1903.
5 Ch. Ziegler, “Un chef d'oeuvre de la collection Tyszkiewicz, le pectoral au belier (Louvre
E 11074)”, in Essays in Honour ofProf. Dr. Jadwiga Lipińska (Egyptological Studies I), Warsaw
1997, pp. 325-326.
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the Tyszkiewicz collection
(ofter J. Tyszkiewicz,
Jyszkiewiciana..)
two finger rings and a splendid necklace of the same materiał set with
carnelians were found on the appropriate places of the body. A golden piąte
with hieroglyphic text lay on a breast, a bracelet madę of strung amethysts
and carnelians and another one in the shape of a serpent adorned her arms.
A crystal figurę of idol Sawak lay at her feet. Overjoyed at this beautiful and
rich prize I decided to dig on in this promising valley and I sent generous
baksheesh to my workmen to encourage them to further efforts and
searching.”
“A case madę of glued linen” is certainly a cartonnage, and very probably
- our cartonnage. As a matter of fact, several other mummies appear in the
story spun by Tyszkiewicz,3 but nonę of them, it seems, was eąuipped with a
cartonnage - at least Tyszkiewicz doesn't mention any. One would like to
know what happened to the golden jewels, but the description is so scanty
that any attempt at identification must remain a hypothesis. On the piąte in
the book (ill. 5) written by Józef Tyszkiewicz,4 the son of count Michał, we
can see golden jewels; among other things a splendid pendant inlaid with glass
and lapis lazuli, shaped like a ram-headed deity seated on a lotus flower.
Is this the “idol madę of lapis lazuli” mentioned by Tyszkiewicz? This object,
presently in the Louvre, is dated to the Third Intermediate Period and its
closest parallels come from the 22nd Dynasty.5 Another object of the same
3 Ibid., pp. 159, 241, 253, 367.
4 Józef Tyszkiewicz, Tyszkiewiciana: militaria, bibliografia, numizmatyka, ryciny, zbiory,
rezydencje etc. etc., Poznań 1903.
5 Ch. Ziegler, “Un chef d'oeuvre de la collection Tyszkiewicz, le pectoral au belier (Louvre
E 11074)”, in Essays in Honour ofProf. Dr. Jadwiga Lipińska (Egyptological Studies I), Warsaw
1997, pp. 325-326.
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