Highly modelled wooden funerary mask, painted red.

Collection type: Object
Description: Highly modelled wooden funerary mask, painted red.
Long description: Wooden face of an male, painted red. The face has moulded nose and mouth and painted eyes and eyebrows. On the back is a small piece of textile and a twisted plant fibre cord. Two wooden pegs emerge from the top of the face. [MJD (Verve) 16/2/2016]
Geographical reference: Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt; Lahun
Person: Field collector William Matthew Flinders Petrie; PRM source William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian 3rd Intermediate
Date collected: 1890
Acquisition information: Donated: 11/1890
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Plant Fibre, Material Textile, Process Carpentered, Process Painted, Process Twisted
Dimensions: Depth: max 80 mm, Length: max 210 mm, Width: max 125 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1890.25.2
Associated publications: Referred to on pages 107-108 of 'Egypt and Sudan: Old Kingdom to Late Period', by Elizabeth Frood, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 90-114. Frood writes: ‘A quite finely modelled white-painted wooden coffin lid with long tripartite wig and crossed hands, assigned to the Third Intermediate Period (1890.25.1), along with two highly modelled wooden funerary masks (1890.25.2–3) are also registered as coming from the ‘Illahun dist[rict]'’. [MJD (Verve) 21/1/2016]

Search terms: Death, Religion, Figure

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