by A 4,000 -year -old handprint was discovered on a sound model for an Egyptian grave that was discovered during preparations for an exhibition in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
The “rare and exciting” complete impression was probably made by the creator of the article, said an Egyptologist in the museum, who touched the tone before he had dried.
The impression was found on the basis of a “soul house” – a miniature clay building that was designed for the funeral. The model dates from 2055 to 1650 BC. Chr.
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.
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 was left behind by the manufacturer who touched it before the sound had dried.
“I have never seen such a complete handprint on an Egyptian object.”
Helen Strudwick, curator of Made in ancient Egypt, looks at a 4,000 -year -old old Egyptian handprint, which was discovered in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge in a “Seelenhaus” researcher from the Cambridge University Museum found handprint based on the ‘Soul House’. (Joe Giddens/Pa Wire)
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.
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.
