Mask for Bearded Man

Mask for Bearded Man

Lawrence Technological University

May 8, 2019

Aluzzo, Adrienne (photograph)

visual works (works)

1st-2nd century AD

Michigan (state)

Ann Arbor (inhabited place)

Hadrianic

mummy masks

Front view of mummy mask of a male face with dark curly hair and mustache and beard from unidentified city in Egypt, housed at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in Ann Arbor, MI. Written on card in case: Mask for bearded man, plaster, paint, Egypt, P. Tano purchase, 1935, KM88236. “This mask displays a triangular facial structure characteristic of masks dating to the mid-second century AD. The hair, molded in one unit with the mask, is rendered as a mass of tight curls forming a close-fitting cap … Close parallels for this mask come from Middle Egypt and date to the middle of the second century AD.”—Faces of Immortality: Egyptian mummy masks, painted portraits, and canopic jars in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, by Margaret Cool Root.

plaster

paint (coating)

jpeg

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