Dried Grapes were used to plug the sockets.
Linen, mud and reeds were placed between the eyeballs and eyelids as false eyes or in the nostrils.
The eyeball was often pushed into the eye socket and covered with a linen pad. Sometimes eyes were painted onto the linen, but eventually the Egyptians began to use stone or glass eyes. Sometimes mummies had whole onions for eyes and occasionally received onion skins to cover the eyes, but a more common method was to use dried grapes and beeswax.
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Dried Grapes were used to plug the sockets.
Dried Grapes were used to plug the sockets.
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Linen, mud and reeds were placed between the eyeballs and eyelids as false eyes or in the nostrils.
Different materials were used to plug the eye sockets. The eyeball was often pushed into the eye socket and covered with a linen pad. Sometimes eyes were painted onto the linen, but eventually the Egyptians began to use stone or glass eyes. Sometimes mummies had whole onions for eyes and occasionally received onion skins to cover the eyes, but a more common method was to use dried grapes and beeswax.
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The eye sockets of the head
The eye sockets of the head
There were a few different ways to prepare the eye sockets in traditional mummification. More often then not, the eye sockets were stuffed with calcite or linen that was painted black. Another popular technique was stuffing the sockets with artificial eyes made of bone, stones, or wood which were painted white. In some cases regarding women of notoriety, False eyes were crafted out of obsidian and ivory.