Layers of linen and polychrome cardboard
H. 46,5 cm
Egypt, Ptolemaic period, circa XNUMXst century BC. J.-C.
Origin
Former Belgian private collection, acquired at the Galerie des Saints-Pères, Paris, April 1980
Sotheby's, New York, December 12, 2013, lot 18
Sotheby's, Honk-Kong, Curiosity IV, April 2, 2018, lot 3047
Former collection of Monsieur Chenel, France
For similar examples see G. Grimm, Die Römischen Mummienmasken aus Ägypten, Wiesbaden, 1974, color pl. A, and pl. 4, 4.
An Egyptian Polychrome and Gilt Cartonnage Mummy Mask, late Ptolemaic Period, circa 100-30 BC
The deceased is represented adorned with a large necklace and a wig with a headband tied in the back and decorated with the udjat in relief.
On the forehead, the stylized hair falls in linked spirals, the face is golden, the eyes and eyebrows are painted black and white. Each part of the wig is decorated, to the left of the goddess Nephthys, to the right of Isis, in the back, a female figure wearing a tripartite wig with a headband; traces of bitumen.
An Egyptian polychrome and gilded cartonnage Mummy Mask, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 1st century BC
The deceased is represented adorned with a large necklace and a wig with a headband tied in the back and decorated with the udjat in relief.
On the forehead, the stylized hair falls in linked spirals, the face is golden, the eyes and eyebrows are painted black and white. Each side of the wig is decorated, to the left of the goddess Nephthys, to the right of Isis, in the back, a female figure wearing a tripartite wig with a headband; traces of bitumen.
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