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AN EGYPTIAN GILT CARTONNAGE MUMMY MASK
LATE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD TO EARLY ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 50 B.C.-50 A.D.
Painted in polychrome wearing a striped headcloth with banded lappets, fronted by a gilt solar-disk on a red band, the long ties falling at the back, a winged scarab above, the striated wings extending across the crown, the face and prominent ears gilt, outlined in red, the brows inlaid in blue glass, the eyes with blue glass rims, white glass sclerae and black glass irises; together with a painted wood mummy mask, circa 1st century A.D., from an anthropoid sarcophagus, with black painted details
9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high (2)
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