Wood 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: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. PAINTED FACE AND HEADDRESS WITH HANDS AT TORSO. MOUNTED ONTO WOOD BASE BY TWO IRON BARS (BY COLLECTOR?).
label: Notes
content: SEE SI ARCHIVES
label: Notes
content: Fragment of a mummy board. This is the mask portion, cartonnage, painted, of a mummy board, a panel inside a coffin laid on top of the wrapped mummy. Closer to an actual mask than those from coffin lids. Probably Ptolemaic period, has scarab beetle on headdress over forehead. Fingers of the hands are missing - were separate pieces of wood.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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 (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: A553162-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 65 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 34 cm