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A Boy’s Mask

A Boy’s Mask
© BA Antiquities Museum/M. Aly and R. Ali

A Boy’s Mask

Category:
Masks, funerary masks
Date:
Graeco-Roman Period, Roman Period, reign of Trajan (89–117 CE)
Provenance:
Unknown
Material(s):
Man made material, plaster
Height:
17 cm


Description

 A mask of colored gypsum with painted eyes and eyebrows. The hair is in vertical curved locks covering half the forehead. The hairstyle indicates that it belongs to Trajan’s reign.


The information given here is subject to modification/update as a result of ongoing research.

References
  • Giuseppe Botti, Catalogue des monuments exposés au Musée Gréco-Romain d’Alexandrie (Alexandria: Imprimerie Générale A. Mourès, 1901): 136, no. 2366.
  • Campbell Cowan Edgar, Graeco-Egyptian Coffins: Masks and Portraits, Catalogue Général des Antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire 26 (Cairo: Imprimerie de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1905).
  • Günther Grimm, Die Römischen Mumienmasken aus Ägypten (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1974).
  • عزيزة سعيد محمود، الأقنعة الجصية الملونة من مصر الرومانية، سلسلة الدراسات بالمتحف اليوناني الروماني‎ (القاهرة: مطابع الهيئة المصرية العامة للكتاب، 1981): 40.
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