An Egyptian Painting on Linen

Abstract

Judging from the title above, it might be assumed that the ancient Egyptians followed the present-day practice of painting on canvas, but that is by no means the case. The Egyptian paintings with which we are all familiar are wall paintings done either on stone sculptured in low relief, on the plaster of mudbrick walls, or on the plastered rock walls of tombs. Other paintings also exist-for instance, those on the panels of boxes or the surfaces, both exterior and interior, of coffins, the occasional decorative paintings on pottery, and the "vignettes," often in color, on the

The use of Miscellaneous Scientific Methods in Characterization and Analyzing the Gilding Cartonnage Tape for the Late Period.

“…Figure(6). The degradation in the linen layer and ground layer.Notes: A. losing of the linen layer, cracks in the ground layer and Weaknesses.…”