Coffin mask

Description

Mask of plastered and painted wood, from an anthropoid coffin, carved in gentle relief with details added in plaster and paint : Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, acquired at Thebes, 3rd Intermediate Period, late 22nd to 25th Dynasty, c.940 - 656 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.193

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Coffin mask

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

3rd Intermediate Period
22nd Dynasty
23rd Dynasty
25th Dynasty

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator: Rhind, Alexander Henry, 1833 - 1863

Exhibitions

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

MURRAY, M A 1900. Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland) : 37[550]

Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), Cat. 24, p. 76