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AN CARTONAGE MUMMY MASK
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AN CARTONAGE MUMMY MASK
ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Wearing an elaborately painted head-cloth with a diadem, a sun disk with flanking cobras in the center, the crown of the head painted with a register of deities below a scarab between squating deities and wedjat-eyes, the upper register with a seated god clasping palm fronds between Isis and Nephthys and griffins, with larger images of Osiris and falcon-headed deities on either side, below this a band of uraei above images of the deceased flanked by Isis and Nephthys, followed by a registers with the mummified deceased on the back of a lion, the four sons of Horus, and winged falcon-headed deities, with blossoms, wedjat-eyes, jackals and sphinxes at the shoulders, the cream-color face with large white paninted eyes with black irisis, rimmed in black with individual lashes depicted, the extended cosmetic lines and arching brows similarly painted
18in. (45.7cm.) high
ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Wearing an elaborately painted head-cloth with a diadem, a sun disk with flanking cobras in the center, the crown of the head painted with a register of deities below a scarab between squating deities and wedjat-eyes, the upper register with a seated god clasping palm fronds between Isis and Nephthys and griffins, with larger images of Osiris and falcon-headed deities on either side, below this a band of uraei above images of the deceased flanked by Isis and Nephthys, followed by a registers with the mummified deceased on the back of a lion, the four sons of Horus, and winged falcon-headed deities, with blossoms, wedjat-eyes, jackals and sphinxes at the shoulders, the cream-color face with large white paninted eyes with black irisis, rimmed in black with individual lashes depicted, the extended cosmetic lines and arching brows similarly painted
18in. (45.7cm.) high