Crown of justification

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Fayum mummy portrait
with the name Isidora ("gifts of Isis") given in Greek (100-110 CE)

In

Book of the Dead, in which the wearer is said to be "justified" by a triumph over death just as the god Osiris eventually rose above his enemies. A ritual text was recited as the dead person was crowned.[2]

The crown of justification might be made of laurel,

sun god Re, and might be made of gold to mimic the properties of the sun.[3] Among the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is an intricately woven papyrus wreath with bronze insets to reflect light.[4] In the Roman era, initiates into the mysteries of Isis might wear a wreath of palm leaves to suggest the rays of the sun.[5]

In the

wedjat-eye.[6] Rose wreaths might be substituted during the Roman period, in reference to the use of rose garlands and wreaths in the Romanized mysteries of Isis.[7] The crown of justification was in this way integrated into the broader festal and religious uses of floral and vegetative wreaths in the Roman Empire.[8]

Gallery

  • Mummy portrait from Hawara (100-110 CE)
    Mummy portrait from Hawara (100-110 CE)
  • Crowned mummy portrait (2nd–3rd century CE)
    Crowned mummy portrait (2nd–3rd century CE)
  • Mummy portrait of a young man with gilded crown
    Mummy portrait of a young man with gilded crown
  • Fayum mummy portrait with the rhombus-shaped leaves representing laurel[9]
    Fayum mummy portrait with the rhombus-shaped leaves representing laurel[9]
  • Young woman in red (90–120 CE)[10]
    Young woman in red (90–120 CE)[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ Wb. ii. 31. 5.
  2. ^ Christina Riggs, The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 81.
  3. ^ Corcoran and Svoboda, Herakleides, p. 32.
  4. ^ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, inv. 50.3788; Corcoran and Svoboda, Herakleides, pp. 32–33.
  5. ^ As described by Apuleius, Metamorphoses; Corcoran and Svoboda, Herakleides, p. 32.
  6. ^ Riggs, The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt, p. 81.
  7. ^ Riggs, The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt, pp. 81–82.
  8. ^ Riggs, The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt, pp. 82–83.
  9. ^ Lorelei H. Corcoran and Marie Svoboda, Herakleides: A Portrait Mummy from Roman Egypt (Getty Publications, 2010), p. 32.
  10. ^ "Portrait of a young woman in red," Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. 09.181.6
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