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#0036
8. Middle part
of the cartonnage
of Nehemes-Bastef
a lotus flower hangs above the forehead. On top of the head a large scarab
Khepri with a shen-sign in his hind legs is painted on a yellow and red
background, resembling a sun disc. Between the lappets of the wig is a figurę
of the seated goddess Maat, painted on a bed-net background.
The arms are covered by a large collar madę of many rows of lotus petals and
red-and-blue blocks. On the right shoulder a smali bird [with a human head:
ba] is perched on a sign symbolising the West; the emblem on the left shoulder
has not survived. A falcon with outspread wings, holding shen-rings in its claws,
overlaps the lower part of the collar. The falcon is ram-headed, crowned with
a sun disk - it is probably a nocturnal form of the sun god, Re-Atum, united
with Osiris during his journey through the netherworld.
Several figures are placed in a register under the falcon (ill. 8). At either side,
the Four Sons of Horus are shown (on the left is Hapi with a baboon head
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of the cartonnage
of Nehemes-Bastef
a lotus flower hangs above the forehead. On top of the head a large scarab
Khepri with a shen-sign in his hind legs is painted on a yellow and red
background, resembling a sun disc. Between the lappets of the wig is a figurę
of the seated goddess Maat, painted on a bed-net background.
The arms are covered by a large collar madę of many rows of lotus petals and
red-and-blue blocks. On the right shoulder a smali bird [with a human head:
ba] is perched on a sign symbolising the West; the emblem on the left shoulder
has not survived. A falcon with outspread wings, holding shen-rings in its claws,
overlaps the lower part of the collar. The falcon is ram-headed, crowned with
a sun disk - it is probably a nocturnal form of the sun god, Re-Atum, united
with Osiris during his journey through the netherworld.
Several figures are placed in a register under the falcon (ill. 8). At either side,
the Four Sons of Horus are shown (on the left is Hapi with a baboon head
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