Mummy mask
- Description
- This Egyptian mummy mask was made in the Greek or Roman periods and was placed over the body inside the coffin. It is made from a mixture of plaster and linen known as cartonnage, decorated with gold leaf.
- Accession Loan No.
- 72/1924/2
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Common Name
- mummy mask
- Simple Name
- cartonnage mask
- Full Name
- cartonnage mask of a mummy
- Dimensions
- whole W 200 mm; whole height 320 mm; whole depth 200 mm
- Cultural Group
- Greco-Egyptian; Romano-Egyptian
- Period Classification
- Ptolemaic Period - 332-30 BC; Roman Period - 30 BC-AD 384
- Family Group
- Material
- wood; textile; plaster
- Collector / Excavator
- Schalch, Mrs
- Collection Country
- Egypt
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Collection Continent
- Africa
