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   "value": "<p style='text-align: justify;'>This elaborate cartonnage mask enclosed the head and shoulders of the deceased like a helmet. It depicts a man with a light goatee beard, emerging as if from a hood. He holds a floral wreath and a rolled-up papyrus document \u2013 a sign of literacy, initiation and status. The eyes are of inlaid stone and set into copper alloy surrounds that form eyelashes. The skin of the face, neck and hands is covered with gold leaf \u2013 the golden flesh of the gods effecting the divinity of the deceased.<\/p><p style='text-align: justify;'>On the rear of the mask, Osiris, god of rebirth, is offered palm ribs \u2013 representing longevity and renewed life \u2013 by his sisters, the goddess Nephthys and Isis, each captioned in hieroglyphs with their names. Along each side of the mask are four unidentified deities. The projection at the bottom of the mask carries a scene of divine cows \u2013 perhaps to be identified with the sacred Apis or Mnevis bull \u2013 flanking a wrapped form, presumably of the god Osiris, sprouting vegetal life within an enclosure representing a sarcophagus or tomb structure. <\/p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Like much of the material discovered by Petrie\u2019s teams at Hawara, this example was found badly damaged and was removed from the mummified body of the individual it protected. Likely at some point after its arrival in Manchester in the early Twentieth Century, the damaged mask was heavily restored and repainted, especially the top and the back of the head.<\/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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