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Mummy mask of a woman

c. 688 BCE - 525 BCE
7th-6th C. BCE
Africa, Egypt
17-3/4 x 10-3/4 x 10-1/2 in. (45.1 x 27.3 x 26.7 cm.)

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Artist unknown

Medium: Linen, plaster, pigment and gold

Credit Line: Stanford Family Collections

Accession Number: JLS.21361

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Provenance

Emil Brugsch Bey, Cairo, Egypt; sold to Jane Lathrop Stanford, 1900-01

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funerary art
Use for art produced for rituals commemorating the dead and for art produced as an individual expression of grief.

mourning art
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art, funerary
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art, mourning
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female
Referring to the sex that normally produces eggs or female germ cells. RHDEL2 [January 1991 descriptor added.]

women
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females
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masks (costume)
Coverings for all or part of the face, usually with openings for the eyes and sometimes the mouth; worn to hide or alter the identity of the wearer or for protection.

mask (costume)
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mask, goalie's
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masks
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