inlay
- Museum number
- EA16597
- Description
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Mosaic slice inlay: a slice containing the right half of a female face, a tragic mask. Opaque grey-green field, matt surface. The head is frontal with brown hair with white details. A ribbon looped at each end, encircling the head, is in pink-red, white, and black. The skin is white with details of the face in black and red.
- Production date
- 1stC BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 3.10 centimetres
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Width: 1.60 centimetres (max)
- Curator's comments
- Cf. Cat. Tongres, no. 253.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1859
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA16597
- Registration number
- 1859,1224.1