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Cartonnage Burial Portrait, mask

1912.01.0004

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Artifact Identification Cartonnage Burial Portrait, mask   (1912.01.0004)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Ceremonial Artifacts
    3. :
  3. Funerary Objects
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period Ptolemaic?
Date 305 – 30 BCE
Culture Egyptian
Location Not on Exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Height) 43.5 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 27.0 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) 22.0 cm
Weight 966 g
Measuring Remarks Under Review
Materials Textile--Linen, Plant--Flax, Plant--Fiber, Plaster, Pigment--Paint
Manufacturing Processes Weaving, Painting

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

James, T.G.H. Excavating in Egypt: The Egypt Exploration Society 1882-1982. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

"This mummy is for real," Heritage 1/2 (May 1982), p. 3.

Photo found in World Heritage Museum Publication, 0000P.0111.

Catalogue of Exhibition of Antiquities found by the Officers of the Egypt Exploration Fund at Abydos and Atfieh exhibited at King’s College, Strand, Egypt Exploration Fund, 1912.

Oswego Daily Times, Saturday Evening, September 28, 1912, p.3.

CASSIER, Charlene, “Fouilles a Atfieh au debut du XXe siècle”, ENIM 4, 2011, p. 273-290.

JOHNSON, John de M., “Excavations at Atfieh”, ArchRep 1910-1911, Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1911, p.5-13.

JOHNSON, John de M., “Excavations at Atfieh, etc.”, ArchRep 1911-1912, Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1912, p.12-16.

Archives:
- Letter from William G. Hibbard to “K.J.J.”, October 12, 1912.
- Correspondence between the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Illinois, September-December 1912.
- Correspondence between Pauline Parent and Charlene Cassier, March 2014.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Egypt Exploration Society
Reproduction no

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