Digital Giza | Mud mummy mask

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7830, G 7834

Mud mummy mask, (late); painted on thin layer of plaster over cloth, face painted yellow, wig blue-green, red outlined, eyebrows, eyelashes, and [irises] black, white of eye white, red decoration under chin, hole for beard under chin. Illustration: Yes [photograph]. Illustration scale: ca 1:5

ID

HUMFA_31-1-421
Department

Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification

Tomb equipment-Masks
Findspot

Rock-cut tomb G 7834, debris
Material

Mud, plaster
Dimensions

Width: 22 cm Length: 21 cm Thickness: 6.5 cm
Credit Line

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Date of Register Entry

01/28/1931

G 7834
- Site Name Eastern Cemetery

A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 472
- ID: HUMFA_31-1-421