Tongue Cover-Plate
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tongue-cover-plate-269-3786635
title:
Tongue Cover-Plate
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Tongue Cover-Plates were gold foil amulets placed over the tongues of some Egyptian mummies. This mainly took place during the Greco-Roman period although examples from the Twenty-sixth Dynasty have been found at Oxyrhynchus. This funerary ritual appears to have been to done in the belief that it would help the dead individual speak in the afterlife. They were sometimes accompanied by gold eye amulets. In the 21st century examples of such amulets have been found at Oxyrhynchus, Quesna and Taposi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_Cover-Plate
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2023-08-24T20:50:31Z
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