Coffin Masks


Hilton Price Number
HP31
Object Type
Tomb equipment, Coffin/sarcophagus/cartonnage, Coffin/sarcophagus lid, Mask/face from a coffin
Period
Graeco-Roman Period
Dynasty
Ptolemaic Period
Material
Pottery (Terracotta)
Provenance
Egypt, Naucratis
Measurements
Diameter: 3 inches.
Number of Elements
4
Culture
Egyptian

Images included (unless otherwise stated on the image), are not subject to any current copyright restrictions because the term of copyright has expired. All of the images may be subject to other third party rights, such as rights of privacy. You are responsible for obtaining other such necessary permissions for reuse. For further information please contact the Egypt Centre.
Description

Terra-cotta Masks (4) or Gorgoneia; they have been gilded and coloured; they were affixed to wooden coffins as ornaments, and belonged to the early Ptolemaic period. Professor Flinders Petrie found some at Naukratis (see the "Memoir Egypt Exploration Fund," Part II., p.25). Dia. 3in. Naukratis.

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.