Posted on 09/04/2018 9:15:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
This historical photo shows the ancient Egyptian mummy case on display at the Stanford museum before the 1906 earthquake broke it into pieces. Credit: Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries
Ariela Algaze found that two fragments of the cartonnage she studied contained ancient Egyptian writing. Credit: Christina Hodge
Perhaps this is a stupid question - but if they have photos of the unbroken case and the fragments, why not glue the thing back together?
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Gotta wait for the grant money.....and I’m betting this is not a NEW discovery....just a reincarnation of an OLD study.
Did someone say mummy?
Don’t read them out loud.
***fragile cartonnage, a type of ancient Egyptian material of either linen or papyrus covered in plaster, into hundreds of pieces.***
This was quite common back then. I remember fifty five years ago a news report of Egyptologists taking apart a papyrus breastplate from a mummy and finding an unknown Greek play written on the pieces. It was the story of a boy and girl separated when young, then as adults coming together, falling in love and soon to get married. The Egyptologists were in suspense trying to find how the play ended. We never found out.
Was it a “best by” date?
This was quite common back then. I remember fifty five years ago a news report of Egyptologists taking apart a papyrus breastplate from a mummy and finding an unknown Greek play written on the pieces. It was the story of a boy and girl separated when young, then as adults coming together, falling in love and soon to get married. The Egyptologists were in suspense trying to find how the play ended. We never found out.
Old Story - Boy meet Girl, Boy loses Girl, Boy and Girl
meet again
..
I forgot to mention they were brother and sister.
That's what she was working on when she found the texts.
You said it was from ancient Greece so I just assumed that would be the case.
Brother and sister? Must have been by Sophocles. :^)
Treasures found inside ancient reptile mummies now under restoration at UC Berkeley
https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/96legacy/croc.html
Aeschylus Meets the Mummy: 2,500-Year-Old, Lost Greek Trilogy Found Under Wraps
http://www.playbill.com/article/aeschylus-meets-the-mummy-2-500-year-old-lost-greek-trilogy-found-under-wraps-com-116390
[Etruscan]
The Liber Linteus: An Egyptian Mummy Wrapped in a Mysterious Message
https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/liber-linteus-egyptian-mummy-wrapped-mysterious-message-002690
Yes, it's hard to believe that someone didn't see these before or even after the case was broken.
This is the great scandal of archaeology. Warehouses are full of relics packed away and never studied or written up.
Its more fun to go out and dig stuff up than to study it and write papers about it.
...and if a best by was involved, why haven't they called the Geek Squad?
Inscriptions are one of those things Egyptologists get especially excited about, so you would think that someone would have noted down that this cartonnage has writing on it. The fact that this wasnt documented is very unusual.
Hodge said its possible that the inscriptions were mentioned somewhere, but those records did not survive the 1906 earthquake.
No, actually there is no such scandal.
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