mummy-mask;
cartonnage
- Museum number
- EA26273
- Description
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Portrait of man on painted plaster mask mounted on linen base; also hardwood mummy-label bearing painted Greek text and with attached cord of painted linen.
- Production date
- 220-250 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 4.30 centimetres (label)
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Length: 16.40 centimetres (label)
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Length: 86 centimetres
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Weight: 30 grammes (label)
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Thickness: 1.70 millimetres (label)
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Width: 33.50 centimetres
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Depth: 8 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Published:
S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Fayum. Misteriosi volti dall'Egitto, London 1997, pp. 192-193 [144].
Riggs, in Strudwick and Taylor (eds.): The Theban Necropolis (2003). [pl.108]
Riggs, Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt (2005): 232-3, 234 Fig. 117, 235, 300
J.H. Taylor & D. Antoine, Ancient lives, new discoveries, London 2014, p. 147.
See bibliographic record: Nachtergael 2003, 267; Parlasca and Seeman 1999, no. 240); Wagner 1995.
D. Antoine and M. Vandenbeusch, Egyptian mummies. Exploring ancient lives, Sydney 2016, pp. 182-3.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1997 22 Oct-1998 30 Apr, Italy, Rome, Fondaione Memmo, Ancient Faces
2016-2017 10 Oct-30 Apr, Sydney, Powerhouse Museum, Ancient Lives
2017 16 Jun-18 Oct, Hong Kong Science Museum, Ancient Lives
2017-2018 14 Nov-20 Feb, Taiwan, National Palace Museum, Ancient Lives
2018 16 Mar-22 Jul, Brisbane, Queensland Museum of Art, Ancient Lives
2019-2020 14 Sept- 28 Jun, Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Ancient Lives EXTENDED DUE TO COVID19
2020-2021, 19 Sept - 21 Mar, Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, Ancient Lives
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA26273
- Registration number
- 1896,0210.2
