Fayoum / Mask of Greek Youth / Ceramic / Glass / Pigment / Plaster or mortar / Gilding

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.1874
Object Name: Mask of Greek Youth
Lot: Kelsey, Francis W.
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Egyptian funerary artifacts
Materials: Ceramic; Glass; Pigment; Plaster or mortar; Gilding
Length: 13.0;
Width: 16.1;
Height: 19.5;
Thickness: ;
Weight: ;1156g
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Originally face was gilded. Traces of gilding remain below left eye and on right cheek. Inlaid, plaster eyeballs. The left eyeball, replaced in antiquity is of different, greyer material. The right eyeball is convex with delineated pupil. Molded in two pieces with join line behind the deep crown of curly hair which frames the forehead and around behind the ears and down. Hair at back of head cursorily modeled. Finger marks visible at back of mask. Facial surface pitted. Outermost layer of plaster chipped off right cheek, nose and under chin.
Verbatim Date: 117-138 AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Fayoum
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Faces of Immortality: Egyptian Mummy Masks, Painted Portraits and Canopic Jars in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology; Portals to Eternity; The Necropolis at Terenouthis in Lower EgyptPortals to Eternity; The Necropolis at Terenouthis in Lower Egypt; Cavafy's World: A Tribute to the Greek Poet Constantine P. Cavafy; Case 21 - Early Ptolemaic BR Drawer; Dangerous Archaeology: F.W. Kelsey and Armenia 1919-1920
Exhibition Curator: Root, Margaret Cool; McCleary, Roger V.; Talalay, Lauren
Exhibition Year: 2011
Publication Title: Passionate Curiosities: Tales of Collectors & Collections from the Kelsey Museum; Cavafy's World; Faces of Immortality: Egyptian Mummy Masks, Painted Portraits and Canopic Jars in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Publication Author: Talalay, Lauren E.; Cool, Margaret Root; Root, Margaret Cool
Publication Year: 2015; 2002; 1979
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.00.1874
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1874/0000_00_1874p01.tif

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Full citation: "Fayoum; Mask of Greek Youth; Ceramic; Glass; Pigment; Plaster or mortar; Gilding." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1874/0000_00_1874p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 03, 2024.