I with classmates of my art class went to Art institute of Chicago museum on Wednesday, November 9, 2011. It is raining, but we with our professor walked on the road together were happy. When I did my assignment to appreciate an art object, Mummy Case of Paankhenamun, I earned a story that was a part of body of god. The god was dead in 3000 years ago, but the people wanted see his body, because of Ancient Egyptian beliefs in the afterlife gave rise to the complex art and science of mummification. This vividly painted Mummy Case was the innermost of a series of shells that housed the body of a deceased person. The hieroglyphic inscriptions and painted scenes identify this mummy as Paankhenamun, a doorkeeper in the temple of the god Amun. The central scene shows the hawk-headed god Horus (god of sun) presenting Paankhenamun to Osiris, ruler of the afterlife. This case is decorated with symbols and scenes of gods that were thought to protect the deceased and ensure his rebirth in the afterlife. They stand on the lotus, a flower that symbolized regeneration. At the throat is a small scene portraying mant, the godless of truth. The hiero-glyphs indicate that Paankhenamun was considered to be “true of voice”, and that his soul successfully had passed the judgment of the dead. A winged scarab beetle, a symbol of the sun that is reborn each day sits over the location of his hart.
I was surprised that Mummy can keep for more 3000 years, it let me praised that artists intelligent and wisdom. They created artwork and common people cannot understand but they were interesting.
Mummy Case of Paankhenamun
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