Funerary Mask

Unknown

ca. 50 B.C.–50 A.D. · gesso or mud?, paint · Egyptian Art

This fragment has the characteristics of coffins created in Akhmim in the second half of the first century BC and the early part of the first century AD. It is created from mud and straw, and like female coffins in that group shows the deceased wearing a great large floral crown bound with a ribbon, a straight Egyptian wig, and on the shoulder a vertically striped/pleated garment. On the basis of inscriptions on some Akhmim coffins, the female coffins such as the museum's appear to be representations of the deceased as Hathor. Their dress represents the Egyptian pleated knotted dress that seems to have developed associations with Isis/Hathor.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 50 B.C.–50 A.D.

Medium

gesso or mud?, paint

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Funds from various donors, 1900