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Description: | Face from a wooden coffin, with holes and pegs at back for attaching it to the coffin lid. Plastered and painted: face reddish brown, eyes and brows black; head-dress of vertical stripes in white, black, and yellow.
Said to be from 'the tombs of the queens', i.e. the Valley of the Queens. Note in original register gives history: 'Found "in a tomb full of rubbish", March 24th, 1915, by Mr. R. Rumney and presented by him, January 1916.'
Technique: Painted, Material: Wood, Paint | Source: | Manchester Museum | Identifier: | mm.emu.ecatalogue.humanities.104909 | Go to resource |
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