Shrine Pictures...

Ok! I've them uploaded. So, here it is.

The Burial Shrine is Complete!

Here are the final photos, all the shrine really needs now are some wooden swing doors, but we'll leave that for later. The superstructure is complete! Hurray!

But for some reason! This is the only photo it'll show! Oh no!

Painting the Shrine

So, the painting of the overlay is coming out alright, but it hasn't been free of troubles. I figured out that putting tape on gold paint isn't the best idea. (Sigh) I guess I'll have to repaint the gold :(

Otherwise, I think it's looking pretty neat. I just have to do the other side of the shrine with the blue and paint egypto stars on the ceiling of the inside. Oh, and I'll have to add the Isis Knots and Djet pillars on the side. Doors for the front will be a later project.

The Burial Shrine (Outer)

So, the first project I started on night before last was the burial shrine. For those of you who aren't absolutely obsessed with Burial Shrines like I am, it's probably 1. Because you have never heard of one, or 2. You're just normal. Haha.

Because Tutankhamun's Tomb was found 'practically' intact, his are a wonderful example. A burial Shrine is a typically wooden structure, or box, that surrounds the sarcophagus. It is typically gilt (covered in gold) and inscribed with spells to protect the buried and lead them through Duat (the underworld). The discover of Tutankhamun's tomb revealed an extraordinary array of shrines - there were !5! of them! Each was sheathed in gold and nestled so tightly together that it took the archeologist 8 Months to disassemble them. The outer shrine of Tutankhamun serves as my example.

I began on mine (or whoever's tomb I am making) night before last and it took me 2 hours. My eyes and fingers hurt so badly I wanted to cry. Haha.

On the picture above of Tutankhamun's Shrine, the Dark Designs on the side are actually faience inlays. I am going to imitate that design with blue paint and paint the designs of the Isis Knot and the Djet Pillar in rows over it to make an overlay effect.

The gray areas you see on my model are going to be painted blue for the overlay effect, but before I can do that, I'm going to have to go and buy beaucoup gold paint at Michael's to finish some of the first layer of gold painting.

I'll be SURE to post the pictures of it when it's complete or in the process.

Next on my agenda is the Sarcophagus, which I don't have a clue what I want it to look like. But before I can even do that, I have some Statistics Homework and and Essay to do for language.

Au revoir, for now.

Oh yeah, and the measurements for my shrine are 7"x 4" x 5"...

What I Want to Accomplish Overall

Hey you guys. My name is Cody Gentry, and simply, I just want to recreate a miniature ancient Egyptian pharaonic tomb. Haha.

I've always been overly interested in Ancient Egypt and even my plans for a university revolve around Egyptology. I'm a freak, I know. Anyway, I'm a seventeen year old who's a Senior in High School, looking for a way to keep himself busy because franky these past few months haven't been the most pleasant and my loads of work from school don't exactly make me happy. I'm hoping that this plan will.

My plan consists of the following: to decorate a tomb made of either concrete bricks, travertine plates, or something otherwise (all from Lowes); To Construct Burial Goods, Treasure, Sarcophagi, and such out of clay from Michael's; To paint them with Magnificence (Cough Cough); and to make them all fit together just stunningly for a mock "burial".

I hope all goes well, and I hope I at least have someone whom I don't know following my posts. :)