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Mask of Tutankhamun; Type: Death mask: Material: Gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian, obsidian, turquoise, and glass paste [1] Size: 54 × 39.3 × 49 cm (21.3 x 15.5 x 19.3 in) Created: c. 1323 BC: Discovered: 28 October 1925 AD [2] Discovered by: Howard Carter (archaeologist) Place: Tomb of Tutankhamun at the Valley of the Kings: Present location ...
The death mask of 18th century sailor Richard Parker Golden funeral mask of Tutankhamun Posthumous portrait bust of Henry VII of England by Pietro Torrigiano, supposedly made using his death mask. A death mask is a likeness (typically in wax or plaster cast) of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from ...
The art supplier said that the mask had been excavated at Saqqara between 1951 and 1952 and had been on the art market by 1952. However, suspicions arose that the mask had instead been stolen from Egypt, and Zahi Hawass, Secretary-General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, asked that the mask be returned to Egypt. In 2006, the ...
The mummy of Yuya "This is perhaps the most perfect example of the embalmer's art at the time of its zenith in Ancient Egypt." [16] [17] Yuya and his wife were buried in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes, where their private tomb, now numbered KV46, was discovered in 1905 [18] by James Quibell, who was working on behalf of Theodore M. Davis.
Joann Fletcher (born 30 August 1966) is an Egyptologist and an honorary visiting professor in the department of archaeology at the University of York.She has published a number of books and academic articles, including several on Cleopatra, and made numerous television and radio appearances.
Rear of a cartonnage Anubis mask, Ptolemaic era This mummy of an unknown girl has a cartonnage composed of layers of linen and plaster. [1] The Walters Art Museum.. Cartonnage or cartonage is a type of material used in ancient Egyptian funerary masks from the First Intermediate Period to the Roman era.
The Egyptians continued their practice of burying their dead, despite the Roman preference for cremation. While under the control of the Roman Empire, Egyptian death masks were painted on wood in a pigmented wax technique called encaustic—the Faiyum mummy portraits represent this technique. [20]
Nefertiti bust, from the 18th dynasty, New kingdom Egyptian death mask from the 18th dynasty. Louvre, Paris portrait of Meritamun, 19th dynasty of Egypt. Portraiture in ancient Egypt forms a conceptual attempt to portray "the subject from its own perspective rather than the viewpoint of the artist ... to communicate essential information about the object itself". [1]