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LOT 0470
Egyptian Faience Mummy Bead Mask
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 332-30 B.C.
5 3/8 in. (42 grams, 13.5 cm).
A panel of small glazed composition beads in various colours representing a mummy face mask with false beard with netted border; restrung with some later beads.
Provenance
Ex Mariaud des Serres, Paris, France, 1990s.
Literature
Cf. Bienkowski, P., Tooley, A., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum, Liverpool, 1995, p.68 and pl.103, for an example still attached to a mummy.
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