Reproduction
Object Category
mummy masks
Description
Mummy cartonnage based on cloth; woman, face and arms gilt, wreath of red flowers in right hand, double headed snake bracelet on both forearms, necklace and pectoral and earrings; right eye bronze eyelashes loose but present. Broken, fragments missing. One fragment showing curls and eyelid ?(marked B in pencil) difficult to place.
Collection Place
Hawara
Publications
- Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Funeral Furniture of Egypt; Stone and Metal Vases, cf p.19, 356
- Trope, Betsy Teasley, Excavating Egypt. Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, p.100
- Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Roman Portraits and Memphis (IV), pl. X, 2
- Adams, Barbara, Rescue our Cartonnage
- Trope, Betsy Teasley, Excavating Egypt. Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Production Period
early roman Period
Material
Dimensions
height: 50 cms Paper, Petrie's writing"Below this add one head, the finest, to be joined. Back of it marked N".
length: cms
width: 40 cms
diameter: cms
depth: cms
thickness: cms
Accession Number
LDUCE-UC28084
Administration Name
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
