Mummy mask
This Egyptian mummy mask was made in the Greek or Roman periods and was placed over the body inside the coffin. It is made from a mixture of plaster and linen known as cartonnage, decorated with gold leaf.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 72/1924/2
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Collector Excavator
- Schalch, Mrs
- Material
- woodtextileplaster
- Common Name
- mummy mask
- Simple Name
- cartonnage mask
- Period Classification
- Ptolemaic Period - 332-30 BC; Roman Period - 30 BC-AD 384
