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CIVILIZATION | Egyptian |
PERIOD | Late Period |
DATE | 25th-30th Dynasty, 712-343 B.C. |
MATERIAL | Faience |
MOUNTED | No |
Composed of turquoise, cream, black and red faience glazed composition beads, with white for the sclera, and green glazed cylinders for the attachment, to form a face.
In the Late Period it became the fashion for mummies to be adorned with a network of beads, attached to the wrappings of a mummy. The majority of these masks were influenced by the goddess Hathor for protective purposes.
Swiss private collection, 1970s.
with Nomis Antiquities, 2008.
American Private collection, acquired from the above in 2013.
Florence, D. F,; Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience, p. 149, no. 164, illus, for a complete net with face mask.
For an attached and wrapped bead face mask, see The Global Egyptian Musuem, no. 17.6.20.60, link
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CATEGORY | Egyptian |
PERIOD | Late Period |
DATE | 25th-30th Dynasty, 712-343 B.C. |
MATERIAL | |
MOUNTED | No |