AN CARTONAGE MUMMY MASK
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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