Mask


Hilton Price Number
HP12
Object Type
Tomb equipment, Mummy trappings, Mask
Period
Graeco-Roman Period
Dynasty
Ptolemaic Period
Materials
Cartonnage | Metals/alloys (Gold leaf)
Provenance
Egypt, Akhmim
Measurements
Length: 9" | Height: 6"
Number of Elements
1
Culture
Egyptian

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Description

Mask, in cartonnage, from a mummy coffin, composed of plaster, coloured, laid upon linen; the face is covered over with gold leaf. The eyes are inlaid; the tunics are ivory, and the pupils stained black; the eyebrows and eyelids are of greyish coloured glass; beneath the chin the hieroglyphic [hieroglyphs] are written in black upon red ground. 9 in. x 6 in. Ptolemaic period, B.C. 200. Aḥmîm.

Bibliography

Price, Frederick George Hilton (1897) A catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities in the possession of F. G. Hilton Price. London: Quaritch. Anonymous (1911). Catalogue of the important and extensive collection of Egyptian antiquities, the property of the late F. G. Hilton-Price, Esq. [...] : which will be sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge [...] on Wednesday, 12th July, 1911, and two following days, and on Monday, the 17th of July, and four following days. London: Davy.