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ClassificationsAncient Egyptian Art

Cartonnage Mask

Place CreatedThebes, Egypt, Africa

CultureEgyptian

PeriodRoman Period

Dateca. 200-250 CE

MediumLinen, plaster, pigment

Credit LineCharlotte Lichirie Collection of Egyptian Art

Dimensions8 11/16 x 2 3/4 x 9 7/16 in. (22.1 x 7 x 24 cm)

Object number1999.001.144

Published ReferencesChristina Riggs, The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt: Art, Identity, and Funerary Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), catalogue 139.
Asja Müller, Ägyptens schöne Gesichter : die Mumienmasken der römischen Kaiserzeit und ihre Funktion im Totenritual (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2021), 334.

Terms

ProvenanceEx coll. Niagara Falls Museum, Niagara Falls, Canada. Purchased by MCCM from William Jamieson (1954-2011) [Golden Chariot Productions], Toronto, Canada.

Status

Not on view

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