2012年2月15日水曜日

What Does An Eygptian Funeral Mask Symbolize?

what does an eygptian funeral mask symbolize?

News from the Valley of the Kings: Face of Tutankhamun

I am catching up on a few things and found  really nice little article about the face of Tutankhamun by Marianne Luban.
  Marianne starts:

I have written it here and elsewhere that the best way to know how a king of Egypt really looked is to see his face as substituted for those of his servants and nobles
Marianne goes on to suggest that a statue of Paramessu is a good "substitution portrait" for the face of Tutankhamun.  Follow the link for details and a picture.

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