Fayoum / mummy mask fragment / Glass / Gold / Paint / Plaster or mortar / Unidentified Stone / Gilding
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.4651
- Object Name
- mummy mask fragment
- Lot
- Askren, David
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Egyptian funerary artifacts
- Length
- ;
- Width
- 11.5 cm;
- Height
- 14.5 cm;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;174 g (with wire support)
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Forcefully modeled mask. Nostrils perforated. Mouth and philtrum crisply defined. Large eye sockets. Eye and eyebrow edged in bitumen. White of eye is white painted plaster, iris black glass. Area of iris plugged with plaster at back. Glass insert surrounded by black ring. Left eye and left side of face missing. Nose completely preserved except for small chip off tip. Right edge, ear, and brow missing. Remnants of coarse fabric on interior.
- Wilfong: Mummy mask fragment. Plaster; Gold leaf, stone.
- Verbatim Date
- c. 332 BC - 100 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
- Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: from Prehistory to Late Antiquity
- IRWG Turret Exhibit
- Case 21 - Graeco-Roman Funerary
- Preserving Eternity: Modern Goals, Ancient Intentions
- Exhibition Curator
- Root, Margaret Cool
- Wilfong, Terry
- Richards, Janet
- Exhibition Year
- 2000
- 2009
- Publication Title
- Passionate Curiosities: Tales of Collectors & Collections from the Kelsey Museum
- 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
- 1979
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.4651
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.4651/dscn3075.jpg
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"Fayoum; mummy mask fragment; Glass; Gold; Paint; Plaster or mortar; Unidentified Stone; Gilding." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.4651/dscn3075.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
