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...otherwise known as, AT BLOOMING LAST *dies*

Seriously, this thing is only a teenytiny bit larger than my scanner, but it took me a full five hours to mat all the bits together in a halfway seamless way. Teach me to go and draw bigger than fits on my scanner. Keaalu = heap big stupidhead.

If you've never tried painting on papyrus, you should. It's a great learning experience. You think your paper cockles? Papyrus is in a whole other LEAGUE of cockleness.

Anyway! Ta-da.

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Edit: Yes, the hieroglyphics around the outside DO actually mean something; they're a part of the "Declaration of Innocence / Negative Confession" from the so-called "Book of Going Forth by Day" (aka "Book of the Dead"), and read thus (from top left to bottom right):

"Hail, Long of Strides, who comest forth from Anu, I have not committed sin.
Hail, Eater of Shades, who comest forth from Qernet, I have not slain men and women.
Hail, Stinking Face (?I think), who comest forth from Restau, I have not stolen grain.
Hail, He whose face is behind him, who comest forth from they cavern, I have made none to weep.
Hail, Fiery-foot, who comest forth from the night, I have not attacked any man.
Hail, Sertiu, who comest forth from Anu, I have not been angry without just cause.
Hail, Her-uru, who comest forth from nehatu, I have terrorised none.
Hail, Orderer of Speech, who comest forth from Urit, I have not been wroth.
Hail, Nekhenu, who comest forth from Heqat, I have not shut my ears to the words of truth.
Hail, Bringer of his offering, who comest forth from Sais, I am not a man of violence.
Hail, Lord of Faces, who comest forth from Netchfet, I have not acted with undue haste.
Hail, Lord of Horns, who comest forth from Sauti-"
(although then I ran out of room. , so I forget what we were telling Lord of Horns we hadn't done)

The cartouche at the bottom just says "Abigail Scott 2006", and the larger hieroglyphs under the lotuses in the top right read "AMMUT". So hurrah!

Description
...otherwise known as, AT BLOOMING LAST *dies*

Seriously, this thing is only a teenytiny bit larger than my scanner, but it took me a full five hours to mat all the bits together in a halfway seamless way. Teach me to go and draw bigger than fits on my scanner. Keaalu = heap big stupidhead.

If you've never tried painting on papyrus, you should. It's a great learning experience. You think your paper cockles? Papyrus is in a whole other LEAGUE of cockleness.

Anyway! Ta-da.

-----

Edit: Yes, the hieroglyphics around the outside DO actually mean something; they're a part of the "Declaration of Innocence / Negative Confession" from the so-called "Book of Going Forth by Day" (aka "Book of the Dead"), and read thus (from top left to bottom right):

"Hail, Long of Strides, who comest forth from Anu, I have not committed sin.
Hail, Eater of Shades, who comest forth from Qernet, I have not slain men and women.
Hail, Stinking Face (?I think), who comest forth from Restau, I have not stolen grain.
Hail, He whose face is behind him, who comest forth from they cavern, I have made none to weep.
Hail, Fiery-foot, who comest forth from the night, I have not attacked any man.
Hail, Sertiu, who comest forth from Anu, I have not been angry without just cause.
Hail, Her-uru, who comest forth from nehatu, I have terrorised none.
Hail, Orderer of Speech, who comest forth from Urit, I have not been wroth.
Hail, Nekhenu, who comest forth from Heqat, I have not shut my ears to the words of truth.
Hail, Bringer of his offering, who comest forth from Sais, I am not a man of violence.
Hail, Lord of Faces, who comest forth from Netchfet, I have not acted with undue haste.
Hail, Lord of Horns, who comest forth from Sauti-"
(although then I ran out of room. , so I forget what we were telling Lord of Horns we hadn't done)

The cartouche at the bottom just says "Abigail Scott 2006", and the larger hieroglyphs under the lotuses in the top right read "AMMUT". So hurrah!