Roman moulded mask of a woman from a coffin

An image of Mask of a woman. These faces formed the top section of a type of coffin that was popular in Roman Egypt. The facial features and hairstyles of the examples here seem individual. However, such masks were mass-produced by pouring plaster in moulds. Production Place: Egypt. Mould made, plaster, depth, 20, cm, height, 29, cm, width, 14, cm. Roman, 100-150 AD, reign of Hadrian.

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Mask of a woman. These faces formed the top section of a type of coffin that was popular in Roman Egypt. The facial features and hairstyles of the examples here seem individual. However, such masks were mass-produced by pouring plaster in moulds. Production Place: Egypt. Mould made, plaster, depth, 20, cm, height, 29, cm, width, 14, cm. Roman, 100-150 AD, reign of Hadrian.

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Accession Number: E.GA.3006.1943
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 768 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 133.68kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2010:07:28 06:04:52

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2nd Century antiquity coffin Egyptian faces female Fitz_ANT funerary head heads mask moulded mummy mummy coffin plaster Roman sculpture woman

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