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Mask of an old woman
Mask of an old woman

Mask of an old woman

about 2nd century A.D., A.D. 100–199
Medium/TechniquePlaster
DimensionsHeight: 20cm (7 7/8in.)
Credit LineSamuel Putnam Avery Fund
Accession number58.1196
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTomb equipment
ProvenanceJoseph von Kopf (b. 1827 - d. 1903), Rome [see note]. Dott. Antonio Agostini, Rome. 1958, sold by the Federal Insturance Company, Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 11, 1958)

NOTE: Ludwig Pollak, Joseph von Kopf als Sammler (1905), p. 64, cat. no. 270.
Mummy mask
A.D. 98–117
Face from a mummy mask
1550–1295 B.C.
Plaster mask of Nimaatra
2350–2194 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.
Mummy mask
probably 1st century AD