Egyptian Wooden Mummy Mask

LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.

15 1/4 in. (4.85 kg total, 38.8 cm high including stand).

Columnar in form with carved facial detailing, thick block of hair, full lips; pierced to reverse for attachment.

Provenance

English private collection, formed in the early 20th century.
Acquired on the English art market.

Literature

Cf. Dawson, J., Strudwick, H. (eds.), Death on the Nile: Uncovering the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt, London, 2016, p. 115, fig. 84, for a similar anthropoid coffin face with a similar dark finish in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

CONDITION

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