Egyptian Painted Wood Mummy Mask Egyptian Painted Wood Mummy Mask Egyptian Painted Wood Mummy Mask Egyptian Painted Wood Mummy Mask Egyptian Painted Wood Mummy Mask
Egyptian Painted Wood Mummy Mask
Egyptian Painted Wood Mummy Mask
Egyptian Painted Wood Mummy Mask
Egyptian Painted Wood Mummy Mask
Egyptian Painted Wood Mummy Mask

Egyptian Painted Wood Mummy Mask

SKU: MS.0037

Origin: Egypt
Circa: Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, c. 945 - 712 BC
Dimensions: 11.5" Height (29.2 cms)
Medium: Wood

From the lid of an anthropoid coffin, painted in bright pigment over gesso, yellow for the skin tones, black for the eye outlines, irises, brows, and cosmetic lines, a black dot in between the brows, white for the sclerae, the preserved portions of the broad wig with alternating blue and yellow stripes, a fillet of red, yellow, white and blue running horizontally above a section of blue embellished with yellow dots, dowls on either side of and in the center of the preserved portions of the wig.

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R. Liechti Collection, Geneva, 1976

For a coffin with a similar face and wig see no. 121, p. 169 in S. D'Auria, P. Lacovara, and C.H. Roehrig, "Mummies & Magic, The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt."

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Egyptian Painted Wood Mummy Mask

Third Intermediate Period

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