Rara rappresentazione di inumazione.

Con un po’ di ricerca ho trovato alcuni riferimenti testuali e d’immagine, sulla figura del sacerdote officiante un rito, con indossata una maschera di Anubi.
Il testo è in inglese, non particolarmente lungo, che lascio alla traduzione di qualche volenteroso.
Le due immagini postate sono da collegare ai testi.

Masks would usually have covered the
wearer's face alone, but in the Ptolemaic
period, they were also cylinder-shaped,
enclosing the wearer's head and rising well
above it. Here Wolinski refers to the wellknown
relief from the Temple of Hathor at
Dendera (Fig. 1) which shows a "false
transparency" of a priest wearing a mask' To
judge by this example, the god's face would
not be opposite the wearer's face but near the
top of the cylinder, slightly above the wearer's
head. During a public procession, the wearer
of such a mask would have towered above
the surrouding crowd and been clearly
visible.



The best-preserved cultic mask from ancient Egypt is a clay mask of Anubis from
the Ptolemaic period, now in the Hildesheim Museum. In the mid-1980
Christine Strau raised some doubts about its actually being a masks - for one
thing, there are no eye holes corresponding to the jackal's eyes, only a couple of
holes in the neck; for another, the mask is made of pottery and weighs 8 kg,
somewhat on the heavy side.



...Nec.