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   "value": "<p style='text-align: justify;'>This cartonnage mask is but one of a whole series shaped on a mould to aid mass production. While glittering golden skin identified the deceased as divine, the use of blue for the headdress alludes to the belief that ancient Egyptian deities had hair of lapis lazuli, a semi-precious blue stone much prized by the ancient Egyptians. The echeloned pattern and wide-open eyes are typical of the Ptolemaic Period (c. 332-30 BCE). <\/p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Additional protection might be provided by amuletic symbols. The wedjat eye \u2013 or \u2018Eye of Horus\u2019 \u2013 represented the eye of the god Horus injured by his evil uncle Seth and restored by his mother Isis, a powerful magician. <\/p><p style='text-align: justify;'>In Ptolemaic times this motif was especially protective when worn on the brow of the deceased, as here. Actual wedjat eye amulets have been identified, using CT-scan technology, to have been placed directly upon the forehead of mummified bodies.<\/p>"
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   "value": "<div style='list-style-type: disc;'><div style='display: list-item; margin-left: 20px;'><a target='_blank' class='externalLink uom-purple' href='https://search.worldcat.org/title/1356890313'>Manchester Museum (University of Manchester). Golden Mummies of Egypt: Interpreting Identities from the Graeco-Roman Period. Manchester University Press 2023<\/a><\/div><\/div><br />"
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   "value": "<p>Featured in <i>Golden Mummies of Egypt<\/i> exhibition at the Manchester Museum, 18 February 2023-14 April 2024.<\/p>"
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