AN EGYPTIAN CARTONNAGE MUMMY MASK
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AN EGYPTIAN CARTONNAGE MUMMY MASK

THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI-XXII, 1069-712 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN CARTONNAGE MUMMY MASK
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI-XXII, 1069-712 B.C.
Decorated with bright polychromy over gesso, the white face with hieroglyphic brows and eyes featuring large black irises, the headdress adorned with a black scarab at the center of dotted bands within the blue headcloth, a multi-strand collar between the lappets; a Demotic inscription on a papyrus fragment adhered to the reverse, reading: "...Anubis(?) of the God's Booth(?)...-Ptah(?)...born of/child of(?) Sen-...Regnal year(?) 4(?), m[onth?]..."
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) high
Provenance
with Galerie Khepri, Amsterdam, 1969.

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