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Partly gilded cartonnage mask featuring a striped close-fitting shoulder-length wig, carbon black painted eyebrows, black eye outlines and pupils. Underneath the gilding is a thick white calcite preparation layer. The yellow stripes on the wig are orpiment. It may have been intended that blue stripes would alternate with the orpiment yellow.
Partly gilded cartonnage mask featuring a striped close-fitting shoulder-length wig, carbon black painted eyebrows, black eye outlines and pupils. Underneath the gilding is a thick white calcite preparation layer. The yellow stripes on the wig are orpiment. It may have been intended that blue stripes would alternate with the orpiment yellow.
Height: 16 cm
Thickness: 3.1 cm
Width: 15 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1949) by Gayer-Anderson, R. G. (Major)
26th Dynasty
Late Period
-0380
-
30
yellow (orpiment), black (carbon black)
Pigments
Cartonnage
Gilding
Calcite
Accession number: E.GA.290.1949
Primary reference Number: 61988
Oldadmincategory: M
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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