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A Woman’s Mask

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

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Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number T0051

Inv.Inventory
 (Greco-Roman Museum) 1847

A Woman’s Mask

Category:
Masks, funerary masks, mummy masks
Date:
Graeco-Roman Period, Roman Period, third Century CE
Provenance:
Unknown
Material(s):
Man made material, cartonnage


Description

A mask of Cartonnage for a mummy. It covers the head, neck, and entire chest area. It manifests wide almond eyes looking upward, and high large Egyptian ears. The mask is decorated by vertical columns of geometric shapes and other symbols. 


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