Sist(rum) -tears
I’ve been meaning to make a sistrum for a while, and prepping for Wep Ronpet seems like a good excuse to get off my bum and do it. Here’s the first two pieces. Next up: sanding and cleaning up the frame, followed by drilling the rod holes and attaching the handle.
The woman in this fragmentary painting from a tomb wall has a wig of long, full hair, held in place by a flowered headband and topped with an ointment cone, a perfumed substance placed on wigs that gave off a fragrant aroma as it melted. A lotus blossom adorns the front of the headband. She holds a rattle called a sistrum, which women often played during temple ceremonies. What remains of the inscription suggests that she may have served with the temple staff of the god Amen.
detail from the outer coffin of Henettawy, Lady of the House and Singer of the God Amon; ca. 1000–945 BCE, now in the Metropolitan Museum…
Henettawy playing the sistrum before the God Osiris. Osiris is represented green-skinned, wearing the White Crown with the two feathers and the Solar disk, holding the Flail and the ‘Heqa’-scepter
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