Mummy mask

Description

Mummy mask of gilded plaster depicting a deceased woman with a gilded face and black hair parted in the middle, wearing gold hooped earrings and a wreath of pink flower petals: Ancient Egyptian, possibly from Middle Egypt, mid-Roman Period,c.54-117 AD

Museum reference

A.1911.276

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Mummy mask

Production information

Unknown
Middle Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

Roman Period
Late 1st - early 2nd century

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Plaster, Gold, Glass, Stone, Faience, Glass

Physical description

Plaster; painted and gilded

Collection place(s)

Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Hilton Price Collection
Collector: Hilton Price, Frederick George, 1842 - 1909

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

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

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

References

1897. A Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Collection of F. G. Hilton Price, Dir.S.A. London: Bernard Quaritch, p. 5 (no. 29)

GRIMM, G 1974. Die römische Mumienmasken aus Ägypten (Wiesbaden: Frank Steiner) 76 n.157

WALKER S & M BIERBRIER 1997. Ancient Faces. Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt (London: British Museum Press) 134-136 [140]

Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), Cat. 55, p.132

On display

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