Mummy Mask of a Woman

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Mummy Mask of a Woman

Culture: Egyptian

Period: Roman period

Date: 2nd-3rd century A.D.

Medium: plaster with traces of pigment

Dimensions:

10 7/8 × 6 9/16 × 4 1/2 in. (27.7 × 16.6 × 11.4 cm)

Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.

Object number: 99.24

Provenance: sold, Christie's, New York, December 9, 1999, lot 407, to San Antonio Museum of Art

Published References Christie's, New York, Dec. 9, 1999, lot 407

Label Text

Mummy masks of the Ptolemaic Period remained clearly within ancient Egyptian artistic traditions. With the Roman conquest of Egypt in the latter part of the first century B.C., Greek and Roman influences begin to appear with greater frequency. Naturalistic, three-dimensional stucco portrait masks and panel portraits often covered the face of the mummy instead of the more traditional, stylized mummy mask. The stucco examples were realistically painted and many have life-like inlaid eyes of glass or stone. (Gallery Label, 8/2002).

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Mummy Mask of a Woman

Mummy Mask of a Woman