Mummy Mask
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1966
name: label: Collector
content: Joseph Hirshhorn
label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. LARGE MASK, PAINTED FACE, HEADDRESS, UPPER TORSO.
label: Notes
content: SEE SI ARCHIVES
label: Notes
content: Large painted wooden head from wooden coffin lid. Headdress complete, face has beard. Probably 25th or 26th Dynasty, but archaicized in style. Mask emulates Mid. Kingdom types. Eyeliner and eyebrows seem inlaid - glass? bronze? Uncertain.
label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Man's coffin mask, 760-525 BC (probable).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Jul 2017
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: Egyptian, Late Period
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: A553189-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 66 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 40 cm