Object Details
- Collector
- Joseph Hirshhorn
- Donor Name
- Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
- PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. LARGE MASK, PAINTED FACE, HEADDRESS, UPPER TORSO.
- SEE SI ARCHIVES
- Large painted wooden head from wooden coffin lid. Headdress complete, face has beard. Probably 25th or 26th Dynasty, but archaicized in style. Mask emulates Mid. Kingdom types. Eyeliner and eyebrows seem inlaid - glass? bronze? Uncertain.
- From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Man's coffin mask, 760-525 BC (probable).
- Record Last Modified
- 12 Jul 2017
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Egyptian, Late Period
- Accession Date
- 28 Aug 1992
- Collection Date
- 1966
- Accession Number
- 370312
- USNM Number
- A553189-0
- Object Type
- Mask
- Length - Object
- 66 cm
- Width - Object
- 40 cm
- Place
- Not Given, Egypt (not certain), Africa (not certain)
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Archaeology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8504005
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3cbfb078d-fb61-4647-9b8a-36093043d008
