Funerary Mask

Arts of Africa

Late Ptolemaic Period-early Roman Period, 1st century BCE

Egyptian

The sun disk on the forehead, flanked by cobras, is a reference to the association of the deceased with the sun god who is reborn each day.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Funerary Mask
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 100 BCE–1 BCE
Medium: Cartonnage, gold leaf, and pigment
Dimensions: 44.5 × 30.5 × 29.8 cm (17 1/2 × 12 × 11 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: W. Moses Willner Fund
Reference Number: 1910.220
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Art Institute of Chicago, Thirty-Second Annual Report (June 1, 1910–June 1, 1911), pp. 19, 62.
Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), pp. 16-17 (ill.)
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 26-27, fig. 11.

The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in 1910.

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