Object Details
- Collector
- Joseph Hirshhorn
- Donor Name
- Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
- FULL HEAD PAINTED CLOTH MUMMY COVERING WITH BLUE PAINT, GOLD FACE AND BLUE AND RED BEARD. PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG.
- True mummy mask. Painted and gilded cartonnage. Excellent condition, headdress intact. Colors exceptionally clear and intense, but clearly authentic. Part of clearly old linen underpinning mask is visible. Gilded face in excellent condition. Late Ptolemaic. Could be early Roman?- note black dotted eyelashes above eye.
- From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Man's mummy mask, 200-30 BC.
- https://www.si.edu/object/mummy-mask:nmnhanthropology_8504006
- Record Last Modified
- 1 Apr 2025
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Ptolemaic
- Accession Date
- 28 Aug 1992
- Accession Number
- 370312
- USNM Number
- A553190-0
- Object Type
- Mask
- Length - Object
- 29 cm
- Width - Object
- 22 cm
- Place
- Not Given, Egypt (not certain), Africa (not certain)
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Archaeology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8504006
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3df20664a-82fa-4556-ad31-6265e3dbb0e9
