Code: 2790
Description: A wooden mummy mask, the face painted white with black painted eyes and eye-brows and the lips painted red edged with black. The underside of the chin damaged with losses, a broken irregular edge to the forehead and wear to the paint particularly on the chin, cheeks and forehead, exposing the underlying wood. The mask strengthened on the reverse with filler (rather crudely applied) and a rectangular wooden block glued to the back, which might make a good achor point for securing in a frame or plaque for wall-hanging.
Size: 220 mm/8.7 ins. high
Culture: Egyptian
Date: Ptolemaic to Roman Period, late 1st Millennium B.C. to early 1st Millennium A.D.
Provenance: Ex Cheshire private collection, the collection assembled in the second half of the 20th Century.
