Funerary Mask

Funerary Mask

Attribution: Museum-publishedProvenance: Museum accession

Attribution follows a published museum catalogue or peer-reviewed scholarship. Object is held in a public collection under a published accession number.

Catalogued by The Art Institute of Chicago as “Funerary Mask”, dated Late Ptolemaic Period-early Roman Period, 1st century BCE. Harvested from the museum’s open-access record; every field below is copied from that record and none of it has been inferred.

Record

People / cultureIgbo
CountryEgypt
Common nameFunerary Mask
MaterialsCartonnage, gold leaf, and pigment
Dimensions46 × 33.3 × 28 cm (18 1/8 × 13 1/8 × 11 in.)

Provenance

The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in 1910.

CollectionThe Art Institute of Chicago
Accession number1910.221

Source

The Art Institute of Chicago, Funerary Mask, accession 1910.221. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/64312

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/64312

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