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Egyptian gilded and polychrome cartonnage mummy mask
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Egyptian Gilded and Polychrome Cartonnage Mummy Mask

Late Ptolemaic Period–Early Roman Period

A gilded and polychrome painted cartonnage mummy mask dating to the Late Ptolemaic–Early Roman Period, circa 1st Century B.C.–1st Century A.D.

Private collection, Switzerland, acquired in the late 1960s; thence by descent. Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, Antiquities, 6 July 2017, lot 69.

For a similar example with complete lappets, see the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, inv. no. 51.247 view the museum's 3D model.

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