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Plaster mummy mask

Details

  • ID
    EMC_JE_45107
  • Department
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Classification
    Tomb equipment-Masks
  • Findspot
    Giza
  • Material
    Plaster
  • Credit Line
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_2/15009
  • Excavator
    Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
  • Object owned by
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Notes
    From excavations of Hermann Junker, 1914. Incorrectly attributed in Porter-Moss to G 2415 T; plaster mask from G 2415 T is EMC_JE_67568, found by Reisner in 1936. This is probably one of two plaster mummy masks found by Junker in 1914 (see JEA 1, 1914, pp. 252-253), provenance unknown.
  • Remarks
    RELATED MEDIA: EMC_JE_IX_Sp100-101LR; RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Hermann Junker

People 1

Modern People

  • Hermann Junker

    • Type Excavator
    • Nationality & Dates German, 1877–1962
    • Remarks Egyptologist, Director of German-Austrian expedition to Giza, 1911–1929. Published 12 volumes of final excavation reports from Giza expedition. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.

Institutions 1