Object Details
- Collector
- Joseph Hirshhorn
- Donor Name
- Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
- PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. PAINTED FACE AND HEADDRESS WITH HANDS AT TORSO. MOUNTED ONTO WOOD BASE BY TWO IRON BARS (BY COLLECTOR?).
- SEE SI ARCHIVES
- Fragment of a mummy board. This is the mask portion, cartonnage, painted, of a mummy board, a panel inside a coffin laid on top of the wrapped mummy. Closer to an actual mask than those from coffin lids. Probably Ptolemaic period, has scarab beetle on headdress over forehead. Fingers of the hands are missing - were separate pieces of wood.
- Record Last Modified
- 30 Jul 2020
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Ptolemaic (?)
- Accession Date
- 28 Aug 1992
- Accession Number
- 370312
- USNM Number
- A553162-0
- Object Type
- Mask
- Length - Object
- 65 cm
- Width - Object
- 34 cm
- Place
- Not Given, Egypt (not certain), Africa (not certain)
- See more items in
- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Archaeology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8503978
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/31a0dbabe-dfbb-40de-9d5a-41372ef2c58b
