Mummy Mask

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Arts of Africa

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

Egyptian

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Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Mummy Mask
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date: 100 BCE–1 BCE
Medium: Cartonnage, gold leaf, pigment
Dimensions: 46 × 30.5 × 28 cm (18 1/8 × 12 × 11 in.)
Credit Line: W. Moses Willner Fund
Reference Number: 1910.222
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Art Institute of Chicago, Thirty-second Annual Report: June 1, 1910–June 1, 1911 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1911), pp. 19, 62.
Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of The Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), pp. 16-17.
Lorelei H. Corcoran, “Featured Object Number Seven, February 1988: Gilded Funerary Mask” (Oriental Institute Museum, February 1988).
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago, by Karen Manchester (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012), p. 26.

The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in 1910.

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