Mummy Mask

1973.2.437

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Mummy mask with gilded face. CONDITION NOTE (1998): Mishapen, unsupported,surface dirt, surface loss, cracked, lifting, flaking surface, textile worn and torn in places, powdery, loose fragments. Wellcome Historical Medical Museum accession no. 243703. Purchased at Sotheby's, London, 22 October 1934 (Mansoor Abd Essayid collection) Lot 145/31 "Two Masks; four Collars; a Winged Nut; a winged Scarabaeus; eight Figures of funerary Deities; eight Fragments of Bands; and five Sandals, in cartonnage painted and gilt".