Uruguay - 2015 - 125 Years of the ESO ERIS Mummy in
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SERIES --- 4,50 EUR
STAMP 1 --- 2,00 EUR
STAMP 2 --- 4,00 EUR
SE-TENANT --- 5,00 EUR
BLOCK --- 5,50 EUR
FDC of BLOCK --- 6,50 EUR
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Issue information:
Country: Uruguay
Date: July 23rd, 2015
Printed: 10.000 copies
Stamp Shape and Size: Both Rectangular [27
mm. x 39 mm.]
Perforation: Circular
Gum: Water Activated
Block Configuration: 1 Series, 2 Stamps [1
x 2]
Block Shape and Size: Rectangular [120 mm. x 60
mm.]
FDC Type: Official Cover from Post Office
FDC Shape and Size: Rectangular [165 mm.
x 105 mm.]
Catalogue information:
Michel: No Data Available
Ivert: No Data Available
Scott: No Data Available
Stanley & Gibbons: No Data Available
Topics:
Brief Description:
A
brief description of the
Most Popular Topics of this Release are: Although it was
issued to Celebrate a new year of uninterrupted Diplomatic Relationship between
Egypt and Uruguay since 1932, whose natural Topic is International Diplomacy,
or Diplomatic
Relationships, both Content
and Design
of the Release
made us conclude that Egyptology
and Music,
were clearly the Topics
in which this Issue
has his Focus
on.
The Content
of this Release is clearly directed to Ancient Egyptian History,
perhaps more specificaly in it Religion
and Culture,
as it commemorates the 125th
Anniversary of the presence of the ESO ERIS Mummy in Uruguay. This Mummy was donated,
by the Uruguayan
Engineer Luis Viglione, to the National Museum of Natural Arts,
in 1890.
Studies indicate that the Mummified
Body dates from between 664 and 525 BC. ESO-ERIS was a Priestess of the Temple of God Min,
in the city of Akhmim,
where during Religious
Ceremonies ran a Musical Instrument
called Sistrum,
and in this Role
of ESO-ERIS
it is implied the relationship with Music
Topic, which will be clearly reinforced also by the Design.
Then,
looking more at the desing of the Issue, besides that all Elements in
the Release are connected with Egyptology,
the foucus is put in the
Topic Music,
honouring the Role
of ESO-ERIS,
and other Priestesses
of the Temple of God Min,
which this connection between Music
and Religion,
put them in the Highest
Status in Ancient
Egyptian Culture.
The connection with Music
in the Design
are two, both Related in particular with Musical Instruments.
One is made by the First
Stamp, that shows a Sistrum,
a Musical Instrument
of the Percussion Family,
chiefly associated with Ancient
Iraq and Egypt,
that consists of a Handle
and a U-shaped Metal
Frame, made of Brass
or Bronze
and between 30 and 76 cm in width, that, when shaken, the
small
rings or loops of thin metal on its movable crossbars produce a sound
that can be from a Soft
Clank to a Loud
Jangling. Its name in the Ancient Egyptian language
was Sekhem (sḫm)
and Sesheshet (sššt).
Sekhem is
the simpler, Hoop-like
Sistrum, while Sesheshet
(an onomatopoeic word) is the Naos-shaped
one.
The second connection to Music,
is done outside the Stamps,
in the Block
decoration, as the Main
Scene represented in the Block is a group of
three Priestesses
of the Temple of God Min
running different Musical
Instruments during a Religious
Ceremony. The Musical
Instruments shown in this Scene seems to be
some similar, when reading the Design from left to right, to the actual
ones: Flute,
Guitar, and Harp, however, the
precise name of these Musical
Instruments it is not said in the Design.
Also from this Scene other Topics
arises, the most related one could be Ancient Egyptian Clothes,
as the Block shows how the Priestesses
of the Temple of God Min
usually were dressed in. As in these Ceremonies, Priestesses used
to wear Semi-Transparent
Clothes or being barely Naked, Nudes or Female Nudes, could
be included as Topics
of this Issue too, and finally, Earrings,
Jewlery, Dresses, and Wigs, are Topics
that also are related to this Release
through this Scene.
Then, the Background
of the Block
includes in a clever way the Texture
of the Linen,
a Textile
made from the Fibers
of the Flax
plant, Linum
usitatissimum. Linen
is laborious to manufacture, but the fiber is very absorbent, and
garments made of linen are valued for their exceptional coolness and
freshness in hot weather, that it is why Linen was the most
common textile in Ancient
Egyptian Culture, and also the only one not forbidden in Temples and Sanctuaries.
The last Topics
included by the Block,
are a minor and possible Arabic
Characters, and another way more Popular as it is Flags, as the Block Design
includes in it Right-Top
Corner both, the Flag
of Egypt, and the Flag
of Uruguay. The Flag of Egypt is a
tricolour consisting of the three equal horizontal red, white, and
black bands of the Arab
Liberation Flag dating back to the Egyptian Revolution of 1952,
and the flag bears Egypt's
National Emblem, the Eagle
of Saladin centered in the white band. So, besides much of
Arab History
is include in the Flag,
also Birds,
and Eagles
or Birds of Prey
Topics are
included too by the Egyptian
Flag. Then the Flag of Uruguay
includes the presence of
the Sun, and with this the Topics Astronomy and Space are linked by
this issue, and in particular this Sun, the Sun
of
May refers to the May Revolution,
a week-long series of events that took place from May 18 to 25, 1810,
in Buenos Aires, capital of the Viceroyalty
of the Río de la Plata.
This Spanish colony included roughly the territories of present-day
Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay. The result
was the removal of
Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros
and the establishment of a local
government, the Primera
Junta (First Junta), on May 25. It is also
claimed that the Sun of
May is a representation of the Inca Sun god Inti,
and also another view is that is influenced by the emblem of the French
Revolution, and that emblem was taken from the Freemasonic
representations of the All-seeing eye.
Now, returning to Stamps,
more precisely to Stamp
Two, which design was not analyzed yet, it
clearly includes Mask
Topic, and
more specifically Funerary
Mask or Mortuary
Mask. It also, because of the Materials in which
it was made, Metals
and in particular Gold
get related to this Release by the Mask.
Then, also Egyptian
Hieroglyphs, as some of them are seen in the Mask decoration, so Language, and Ancient Egyptian Art,
is included too.
Finally, just a few words about the First
Day Cancellation, that it is a nice piece of Art, showing one Architectural Capital specific for
the Ancient Egyptian
Civilization, that relates this issue to Architecture and
also to Columns
Topics.
If you consider that there are another topics in
this stamp, that were not spot in this review, you are encouraged to
telling me about them, so please do not hesitate to post a comment. I
would appreciate your help very much.
