Mummy Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
name: label: Collector
content: Joseph Hirshhorn
label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: FULL HEAD PAINTED CLOTH MUMMY COVERING WITH BLUE PAINT, GOLD FACE AND BLUE AND RED BEARD. PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG.
label: Notes
content: 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.
label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Man's mummy mask, 200-30 BC.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Jun 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Egypt (not certain), Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ptolemaic
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: A553190-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 29 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 22 cm