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Eight Funerary Paintings with Judgement Scenes in the Swansea Wellcome Museum

EIGHT funerary paintings on linen in the Swansea Wellcome Museum (Inv. Nos. W 649-56)1 are concerned with the reawakening of the deceased and with the episode of judgement. Although these paintings exist now as separate pieces, the material, colour, style, and thematic sequence indicate that they belong together and undoubtedly formed part of a wrapping or shroud with which a mummy was covered. It would be a vain task, however, to attempt to join these parts together by a study of the existing shape of the edges in the manner of a jigsaw; for in each case it is quite clear that the edges have been cut in order to produce a fairly even, though not always a consistently even, rectangular form. Probably the edges, in a previous state, were frayed and jagged and the garment may have been torn through decay and maltreatment. It is also possible that in its original state it contained several other painted scenes. The combined measurements of the extant pieces, if arranged in vertical sequence, would produce a garment about 191 em high and 24 em wide, though a generous margin of unfilled space should doubtless be allowed. A parallel series of similar scenes arranged vertically would result in a garment of at least double this width-s-zS ern, about a foot and a half. A total size of about 6i X I t feet would thus be achieved, rather short, especially in width, of the '8 feet by 4 feet' mentioned by Budgez as a typical size. Perhaps the most convincing way of reconstructing a satisfactory size would be to assume an over-all pattern like that exhibited on a shroud made and painted in the Ptolemaic or early Roman era, where a large central figure of Osiris is flanked by two vertical columns which are divided into small scenes of a religious character (see fig. 1).3 Certainly the extant episodes depicted on the Swansea shroud would suffice to make up one such column of scenes. If a central figure of Osiris had not been present, then a double column of scenes would have produced a width of about 3 feet, and the depiction of the winged scarab, which is wider than the other items, might well have surmounted such a double column. Parlascapresents several other examples of this kind of pattern, including two in