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Description: | ; Date(s): 100 - 150; Classification(s): funerary equipment, coffin, mould made; Acquisition: given by Green, F.W., 1911 [E.14.1911]
Description: head from mummy case, male. These faces formed the top section of a type of coffin that was poplar in Roman Egypt. The facial features and hairstyles of the examples here seem individual. However, such masks were mass produced by pouring plaster in moulds. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | funerary equipment coffin | Temporal: | name=Roman; start=100; end=150 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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