AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED PLASTER MUMMY MASK
THE PROEPRTY OF A NEW YORK LADY
AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED PLASTER MUMMY MASK

ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY TO MID 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED PLASTER MUMMY MASK
ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY TO MID 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Depicting a fair-skinned boy, his almond-shaped eyes with large black irises, articulated eyelashes, thick arching brows, and rosy lips, his dark hair fashioned in small corkscrew curls, his slender ears exposed, his tunic with a blue-trimmed rounded neckline, the folds pinned by a gilt medallion fastened at his right shoulder, depicting a draped bust with long curly locks, facing a crescent, enclosed within a band of beading
12¾ in. (32.4 cm.) high
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Inherited by the current owner from her mother, New York, 1960s.

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For a similar mask with a medallion see no. 159 in Walker and Bierbrier, Ancient Faces, Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt.