Object Details
- Collector
- Joseph Hirshhorn
- Donor Name
- Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
- WOODEN MASK, WEARING TURBAN, REDDISH BROWN PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH BLUE, WHITE PINK PAINT AND BLACK INK. PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. PURSHASED BY J HIRSHHORN FROM THE DELACORTE GALLERY, NEW YORK, IN 1959.
- Ca. 2nd century.
- Coffin mask, wood, painted. Paint on face is unusual dark brown - the usual would have been a dark brownish red. Perhaps the appearance has changed due to weathering or unstable pigment or application of some kind of preservative? Face is done in a somewhat archaic style, with cheek bars indicating a false bear. Either represents a consciously archaicizing trend, or could be a little earlier that the Ptolemaic period.
- Record Last Modified
- 10 May 2024
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Roman Period
- Accession Date
- 28 Aug 1992
- Collection Date
- 1966
- Accession Number
- 370312
- USNM Number
- A553076-0
- Object Type
- Mask
- Length - Object
- 28 cm
- Width - Object
- 20 cm
- Place
- Not Given, Egypt (not certain), Africa (not certain)
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Archaeology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8503892
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/39df36e00-5c06-4818-ab32-270e372d9008
