Fayoum / mask / Ceramic / Glass / Pigment / Plaster or mortar / Gilding
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.1874
- Object Name
- mask
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Egyptian funerary artifacts
- Length
- 13.0;
- Width
- 16.1;
- Height
- 19.5;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;1156g
- 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
- 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
- Record
- 0000.00.1874
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1874/dscn6056.jpg
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"Fayoum; mask; Ceramic; Glass; Pigment; Plaster or mortar; Gilding". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.1874/dscn6056.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2023.