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Mummy mask

Description

Mummy-mask of gilded and painted linen and plaster cartonnage, from an unidentified mummified man: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Faiyum, el-Rubaiyat, Ptolemaic Period, c.332 - 30 BC

Museum reference

A.1901.547.1

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Mummy mask

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

Ptolemaic Period

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Collection place(s)

el-Rubaiyat, Faiyum, Middle Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Depicted: Isis
Depicted: Nephthys

Exhibitions

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

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

References

WARD, E 1912. Guide to the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities (Edinburgh: His Majesty’s Stationery Office), 31, pl. IX

GRIMM, G 1974. Die römische Mumienmasken aus Ägypten (Wiesbaden: Frank Steiner), 22, 46, 54, 113, 117, taf. 3,1.

Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), Cat.39, p.110

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