Object Details
- Collector
- Joseph Hirshhorn
- Donor Name
- Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
- WOODEN MASK, APPEARS A PORTRAIT OF WOMAN WITH LARGE ELABORATE HEADDRESS WITH LARGE INVERTED SCARAB, BLACK, FACE IS LIGHT YELLOW-GREEN WITH SMALL BLACK MOUTH AND EYEBROWS, HEADDRESS COLORS: RED BLACK BLUE WHITE YELLOW. PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. PURCHASED BY J HIRSHHORN BY THE DELACORTE GALLERY, NEW YORK, IN 1959.
- Fragment of coffin or board with face, part of headdress. Female coffin, probably. Gessoed surface intact and painted. Scarab beetle above forehead on painted feathered headdress. Ca. 2nd century.
- From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Woman's mummy board fragment 200 BC-100 AD (probable).
- Record Last Modified
- 10 May 2024
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Late Ptolemaic/Roman
- Accession Date
- 28 Aug 1992
- Collection Date
- 1966
- Accession Number
- 370312
- USNM Number
- A553069-0
- Object Type
- Mask
- Length - Object
- 33 cm
- Width - Object
- 21 cm
- Place
- Not Given, Egypt (not certain), Africa (not certain)
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Archaeology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8503885
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3b43d8087-c69b-436b-93a1-a142684524a6
