An Egyptian wooden mummy mask, 1st Millennium B.C.

An Egyptian wooden mummy mask, 1st Millennium B.C.

Code: 2847

£950.00

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.