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Mummy mask

probably 1st century AD
Country of Origin, for CustomsEgypt
Medium/TechniqueGilded plaster
DimensionsHeight x width: 19 x 16.5 cm (7 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
Credit LineMary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund
Accession number1977.175
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTomb equipment
Provenance1977, sold by Jean-Louis Domercq, Galerie du Sycomore, Paris, to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 11, 1977)
Mummy mask
A.D. 98–117
2465–2323 B.C.
Face from a mummy mask
1550–1295 B.C.
2040–1783 B.C.
Plaster body covering
2465–2150 B.C.
Funerary mask
about 1st–2nd century A.D.
Funerary mask of a woman
mid-1st century A.D.