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, WEARING TURBAN, REDDISH BROWN PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH BLUE, WHITE PINK PAINT AND BLACK INK. PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. PURSHASED BY J HIRSHHORN FROM THE DELACORTE GALLERY, NEW YORK, IN 1959.
label: Notes
content: Ca. 2nd century.
label: Notes
content: Coffin mask, wood, painted. Paint on face is unusual dark brown - the usual would have been a dark brownish red. Perhaps the appearance has changed due to weathering or unstable pigment or application of some kind of preservative? Face is done in a somewhat archaic style, with cheek bars indicating a false bear. Either represents a consciously archaicizing trend, or could be a little earlier that the Ptolemaic period.
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: 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: A553076-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 28 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 20 cm