Discovery of a 5 -year -old work of ancient Egypt; Touching history at the British Museum

Quoted by ISNA; Researchers at the Fitzvillem Museum in Cambridge, Britain, made an exciting discovery of a large exhibition called “Built in Ancient Egypt” to be inaugurated this fall and discovered a five -year -old work on an Egyptian funeral.

This scarce work was discovered on an ancient object known as the “House of Spirit”. This object is a type of earthenware in the form of a building that was open in front of the food. The “soul houses” were usually above the burial place and were considered a place for the lives of the deceased person and may have been a place for mourners.

Fitziliam experts examined this particular “home house” dating back from 1 to 5 BC, and the results of these studies helped to clarify how it was made five years ago.

According to the museum experts, the first step of the pottery that made this “home of the soul” was to create a framework of narrow wood that was then covered with mud to create a two -storey building with preservative columns. Then the stairs were formed by pressing the mud. In the process of cooking the mud in the furnace, the burnt wood frame and empty spaces remain.

The discovered hand -made effect was probably recorded when someone, perhaps the potter himself, has moved the “home” before it is cooked in the furnace.

Helen Stradwick, a museum and senior professor of the Fitzvillem Museum, said in a statement:

We have sometimes seen a coffin in the wet lacquer or on the decoration of a casket, but finding a full hand under this soul house is a rare and exciting event. This work was made by a manufacturer who touched the flower before drying. I have never seen a full hand effect on an Egyptian object. You can easily imagine the person who made this to dry it out of the workshop. According to museum experts, pottery in ancient Egypt was often used as applied objects, but sometimes had decorative aspects. According to the Museum’s statement, pottery containing food and drinks was one of the most common elements at the funeral. The huge volume of pottery remaining from that time confirms this. However, unlike many ancient Egyptian handicrafts, there are few details of the life of pottery, which makes the discovery of a full hand much more valuable.

“Stradovik” said.

Things like this will take you directly to the moment that the object was built and close to the person who made it, which is the focus of our exhibition. The Fitzvillem Museum, located in the UK, will be public.