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: WOODEN MASK, APPEARS A PORTRAIT OF WOMAN WITH LARGE ELABORATE HEADDRESS WITH LARGE INVERTED SCARAB, BLACK, FACE IS LIGHT YELLOW-GREEN WITH SMALL BLACK MOUTH AND EYEBROWS, HEADDRESS COLORS: RED BLACK BLUE WHITE YELLOW. PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. PURCHASED BY J HIRSHHORN BY THE DELACORTE GALLERY, NEW YORK, IN 1959.
label: Notes
content: Fragment of coffin or board with face, part of headdress. Female coffin, probably. Gessoed surface intact and painted. Scarab beetle above forehead on painted feathered headdress. Ca. 2nd century.
label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Woman's mummy board fragment 200 BC-100 AD (probable).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 May 2024
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: Late Ptolemaic/Roman
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: A553069-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 33 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 21 cm