Code: 2847
Description: A wooden mummy mask, the face covered with gesso painted brown with the eyes and eyebrows in black. A row of dowels in the forehead for fixing to the coffin. Some minor losses around the edges, and the gesso lost from the forehead exposing the underlying wood, but a nice example with original painting.
Size: 240 mm/9.4 ins high.
Culture: Egyptian
Date: Late Dynastic Period, 1st Millennium B.C.
Provenance: Ex Surrey private collection.
A metal loop on the reverse for wall hanging.