by A handprint that lies back on a sound model 4,000 years ago that was entered in an Egyptian grave was discovered during the preparation for an exhibition in a museum.
The “rare and exciting” complete handprint was probably made by the manufacturer of the article, which dried it in front of the sound, an Egyptologist said in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
The impression was left on the basis of a “soul house” – a sound model in the form of a building that was then put into burial.
The model on which the handprint was discovered was on around 2055-1650 BC. Chr. Dated.
It had an open front room in which food was created in this example bread bread, lettuce and ox head.
Soul houses may have acted as an offer of tablets or offered a place for the soul of the deceased to live in the grave.
A frontal view of the “Soul House” model – Michael Jones/University of Cambridge
Helen Strudwick, Senior Egyptologist in the Fitzwilliam Museum, said: “We have discovered traces of fingerprints in wet paint or on a coffin in decoration, but it is rare and exciting to find complete handprint under this soul house.
“This dried from the manufacturer who touched it. I have never seen such a complete handprint on an Egyptian object.”
The researcher, who is also the curator of the new exhibition of the museum in the old Egypt, continued: “You can only imagine that the person who did this has lifted them to get them out of the workshop to dry before shooting.
“Things like this lead them directly to the moment the object was made, and for the person who has made it, which is the focus of our exhibition.”
The analysis of the article indicates that the Potter, who first created it, created a frame of wooden sticks and then coated it with sound to create a building with two floors worn.
The handprint will be around 4,000 years old – Michael Jones/University of Cambridge will be
Stairs were formed by the wet tone was caught. The wooden frame burned away while firing and left empty rooms in its place.
The handprint underneath was likely to be made when someone, perhaps the potter, moved the house out of the workshop in order to dry in an oven before shooting.
The ceramic was widespread in ancient Egypt, mainly as functional objects, but occasionally as decorative pieces.
The Soul House is exhibited in the Fitzwilliam’s Made in the old Egypt exhibition, which is accessible to the public on October 3.
