Mummy's Wrap

A Scribe's Scribbles About Ancient Egypt

Artifact Description: Mirror with Falcons

| October 27, 2010

The polished thin oblong disk of this mirror appears to possibly be blooming from the papyrus-shape of the top of the handle.

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Artifact Descriptions: Seven Sacred Oils Tablet

| October 20, 2010

This tablet, almost identical to the tablet discovered in the same tomb now housed in the Harvard University Museum of Fine Arts, is divided into seven sections by thinly incised lines, each section with a carved repository for oil in the bottom register.

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Artifact Description: Intro

| October 20, 2010

In the next few posts, I will be sharing three artifact descriptions I wrote for one of my classes, taught by Dr. Patricia Podzorski.

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