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 WITH REMAINS OF WHITE PAINT. PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG.PURCHASED BY J HIRSHHORN FROM THE DELACORTE GALLERY IN 1959.
label: Notes
content: Fragment of wooden coffin, carved mask. Unclear whether painted, most were, but no obvious pigment left. Accession records give age of 2nd century A.D. (100 - 200 yrs A.D.), but Johns Hopkins University Egyptologist Betsy Bryan thinks a little earlier than this.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Apr 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: Roman 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: A553276-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 25 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 17 cm