Mummy Mask

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Object Details

Collector

Joseph Hirshhorn

Donor Name

Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden

Notes

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.

Record Last Modified

5 Jun 2025

Specimen Count

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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Data Source

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

Topic

Archaeology

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3df20664a-82fa-4556-ad31-6265e3dbb0e9

Record ID

nmnhanthropology_8504006