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Mummified body of a woman called Isaious. The name of the lady is written in Greek at the top of the cartonnage mask and was previously interpreted as Demetria. A more recent reading has instead suggested: \u2018Isaious (or Isarous) daughter of Demetrios\u2019 (Ἰσαι̣οῦς Δημη[τρίου]). The face and upper part of the head of the mask were found damaged upon discovery and have been restored in the early Twentieth Century by staff at Manchester Museum.<\/p>

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The gilded mask shows the deceased with a Roman hairstyle and jewellery, but is surrounded on its back, sides and lower sections with pharaonic motifs. The unusually well-preserved outer shroud carries scenes of Egyptian gods and hieroglyphs. These include standard elements: the broad floral collar; the scene of the mummified body of a lion headed bed, tended by the jackal-headed deity Anubis (note that the canopic jars depicted beneath the bed are a complete fiction at this period, the practice of including them having died out centuries before); and finally a scene of ritual purification, where the deceased (shown in standard pharaonic style for an elite woman) is shown between the gods Thoth and Horus \u2013 a common motif for the Pharaoh on Graeco-Roman temples.<\/p>

The cartonnage footcase shows the gilded toes, emerging from the wrappings \u2013 a sign of the divine status of the deceased. Underneath is a particularly well-preserved scene of two male figures, naked and bound \u2013 the enemies of the deceased being trampled.<\/p>

This mixture of Greek, Roman and Egyptian features are typical of multicultural expectations of the afterlife in Graeco-Roman Period Egypt.<\/p>

The body was CT-scanned at Manchester Children's Hospital on 31/1/13.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Acquisition", "value": "Donation by British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1910-1911" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Mummified body of a woman" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "

Manchester Museum (University of Manchester). Golden Mummies of Egypt: Interpreting Identities from the Graeco-Roman Period. Manchester University Press 2023<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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Featured in Golden Mummies of Egypt<\/i> exhibition at the Manchester Museum, 18 February 2023-14 April 2024.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Africa, Egypt, Faiyum, Hawara" }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "" } ], "@type": "sc:Manifest", "attribution": "Provided by The University of Manchester.

© Photographer: Julia Thorne / Tetisheri<\/p>

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Mummified body of a woman called Isaious. The name of the lady is written in Greek at the top of the cartonnage mask and was previously interpreted as Demetria. A more recent reading has instead suggested: \u2018Isaious (or Isarous) daughter of Demetrios\u2019 (Ἰσαι̣οῦς Δημη[τρίου]). The face and upper part of the head of the mask were found damaged upon discovery and have been restored in the early Twentieth Century by staff at Manchester Museum.<\/p>

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The gilded mask shows the deceased with a Roman hairstyle and jewellery, but is surrounded on its back, sides and lower sections with pharaonic motifs. The unusually well-preserved outer shroud carries scenes of Egyptian gods and hieroglyphs. These include standard elements: the broad floral collar; the scene of the mummified body of a lion headed bed, tended by the jackal-headed deity Anubis (note that the canopic jars depicted beneath the bed are a complete fiction at this period, the practice of including them having died out centuries before); and finally a scene of ritual purification, where the deceased (shown in standard pharaonic style for an elite woman) is shown between the gods Thoth and Horus \u2013 a common motif for the Pharaoh on Graeco-Roman temples.<\/p>

The cartonnage footcase shows the gilded toes, emerging from the wrappings \u2013 a sign of the divine status of the deceased. Underneath is a particularly well-preserved scene of two male figures, naked and bound \u2013 the enemies of the deceased being trampled.<\/p>

This mixture of Greek, Roman and Egyptian features are typical of multicultural expectations of the afterlife in Graeco-Roman Period Egypt.<\/p>

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