#funerary

[ancientegyptdaily]

PAINTED MUMMY PORTRAITS OF EGYPTIANS DURING THE ROMAN PERIOD

The painted mummy portraits of Roman Egypt almost uncannily bring before us individuals from about two thousand years ago. The powerful promise of the ancient Egyptian afterlife, the pervasiveness and coherence of Roman culture, and the strong naturalism of the Graeco-Roman painting tradition combined to produce these arresting portraits of the gentility of the towns and cities of Egypt beyond the great metropolis of Alexandria. —Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt (ed. Susan Walker) (1997)

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Two Standing, Braying Camels, One Buff, One White, Their Backs Laden with Goods.

Date: A.D. 550-577

Period: Northern Qi

Place of origin: East Asia, China

[romegreeceart]

Funerary figurines

* Shabti of Paankh with inscription on cursive script. Bakerd clay, New Kingdom, 19th dynasty (1292-1190 BCE)

* Two shabtis of Userhat, scribe of Amon. Faience, New Kingdom, 19th-20th dynasty (1292-1076 BCE)

* Turin Egyptian Museum

Turin, June 2023

[servantofthegodss]

Dua Yinepu, Khenty-Amentiu 🙏

Praise Anubis, Foremost of the Westerners

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Praise He Who Is upon His Mountain

Praise The Lord of the Sacred

Praise He Who Is in the Place of Embalming

[thatshowthingstarted]

Funerary Face Cover, Java, Indonesia,

Preclassic Period (ca. 500 B.C.E. / 500 C.E.)

Gold,

Eye-Nose cover: 4.54 × 4.8 cm, 1.087 g, 0.01 cm (1 13/16 × 1 7/8 in., 1.087 g),

[ancientorigins]

In diverse cultures from India to Tibet, living relatives perform intricate rituals to aid the dead in their spiritual journey, reflecting a shared belief in the importance of guiding souls into the afterlife.

[beyond-the-mausoleums]

Slowly watching the land come back to life after winter

[eucanthos]

Uknown

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Fayum mummy-portrait of a lady, 54-68 AD, found in Hawara, Egypt, a site near the Fayum oasis. On display in 2009 exhibition "Roman Imperial Painting", Rome. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

The Fayum portraits date to the Imperial Roman era, from the late 1st c. BC or the early 1st c. AD onwards. Recent research suggests their production ended in the middle of the 3rd c. AD. They are survivors of the panel painting tradition of the classical / Greco-Roman world, continued into Byzantine, Eastern Mediterannean, and Western traditions in the post-classical world, including the local tradition of Coptic iconography.

http://elogedelart.canalblog.com/archives/2009/09/26/15207626.html

https://historicaleve.com/ancient-faces-fayum-mummy-portraits/

https://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/mummy_portraits_2.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits

[fruitdragon]

What I want done with my remains.

Suddenly came to the realization that I don't want my death to have as much damage to the earth as a regular burial, or take up that much space. Listed below are the best ways to take care of my remains.

Cremation - still causes environmental damage from CO2 and other bad substances being released, but cheaper and easier and my family gets the ashes back

Aquamation - alkaline hydrolysis, water cremation, less toxins released and final bath, family gets the "ashes" back to do with as they wish

Natural burial - throw me in the grown and stick a tree on top, just make sure I'm not embalmed so I don't leach arsenic into the grown

Human composting - yes, cool, Eco friendly

Donating my body to science - let students study me and how fucked up I am. There have been recent cases of university medical schools selling bodies though. Further a field, make people confused, downside someone might steal my organs.

Any of those cool processes that allow ashes to be turned into paint, jewelry, pottery, or fireworks.

Throw me in the swamp - when archeologists find me I'll be one of those bog mummies and they'll think I'm neat. Downside if I undergo mummification (proper or not) and we have another spike in corpse medicine I might be cannibalized. If I haven't been eaten by wildlife

Sky burial - feed me to the birds baby

[weirdwisconsin]

These stickers from Wisconsin's own purveyors of creepy and macabre Beardly and the Black Sheep are perfect for Valentine's Day 🖤

[arturizmo]

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Light a match 🔥❄️

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Funerary relief of Ulpia Epigone.

Date: A.D. Late 1st-early 2nd century

Provenience: Vatican Museums, Gregorian Profane Museum (Roma, Musei Vaticani, Museo gregoriano profano).

Medium: Luna marble

[romegreeceart]

The Tomb of Iti and Neferu

* Gebelein, Northern Cemetery

* First Intermediate period, 2118-1980 BCE

* Schiaparelli excavations, 1911

* Egyptian Museum of Turin

* Iti was a "Chief of troops" and a Treasurer of the king". Neferu was his wife. Limestone funerary stela (photos 8 & 11) shows them receiving food offerings.

Turin, June 2023

[heysheepdog]

(Repurposed older post)

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Maverick/Mav, 21, typical DNI applies

(Note for those concerned- using Maverick as an online name, though other nicknames are cool too [ex. sheepdog, ???, etc])

Basic Pinned Intro (mostly so I can keep track of the way I've been tagging things)

creacher- lively animals

outdoors- outside!!!

folk punk, TF2, and anthropology/archaeology- what it says on the tin

the maverick archives- posts I gel with or have made up myself

audio- videos and sound clips

people peopling- 'anthropology' or interesting posts based on existing people/people bein' silly

more/less frequently used below

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funerary and funerary customs- former is general tag, latter is specific to customs. It's something I'm generally really interested in

'tummy ache survivors', 'blucord', and other personalized tags (mr ultrakill, slugmagon, maresrostrum, juice, mick taylor simp, etc)- you know who you are, posts related to thou

handinball licker- NBC Hannibal or similar posts

Hanukkah- this has become my general Jewish tag. Don't look at me like that.

I'll add more as I remember/adopt

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[friedhofe]

📷 @misjaklimov Panteó Josep Gener Esc. josep Reynés

[ancientorigins]

The Toraja in Indonesia have come to be known as the custodians of some of the most complex funeral rituals in the world. Through their preservation and exhumation of the dead, this curious culture blurs the boundaries between life and death.