Gilded Mummy Mask
Description
Caption: Gilded Mummy Mask, 101–200 C.E.. Linen or papyrus mixed with plaster, pigment, gold leaf, 6 1/2 x 4 5/16 in. (16.5 x 11 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 08.480.3. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A damaged, painted and partially gilded human mummy face mask (frontal view) with large painted eyes, arched brows, and a stylized nose and mouth.
The image shows the front of an ancient Egyptian mummy mask fragment, with a cracked plaster surface and areas of worn decoration. The mask has prominent almond-shaped eyes with dark pupils/eyeliner and arched eyebrows; the nose is centered and stylized, and the mouth is painted across a split or chipped area. A horizontal band across the forehead/upper face includes repeating rounded motifs, and there are remnants of painted coloring in light and darker tones across the forehead, cheeks, and around the eyes. The object appears incomplete with missing sections along the top edge and sides; the surface is uneven with flaking paint and exposed underlying material. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text are visible in the photograph.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 08.480.3 tier-2
- BKM-Object 19077 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
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