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-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A fragmentary ancient Egyptian funerary mask with gold and polychrome decoration.
This artifact is a funerary mask fragment, showing a human face with large eyes and detailed painted features. The mask appears to have been crafted from a gold-coated material, possibly wood or cartonnage, with traces of polychrome decoration, especially around the eyes. The style suggests attention to both realism and idealized features typical of funerary art. The mask is partially damaged and shows signs of deterioration, with some areas completely missing and others revealing the underlying structure.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 08.480.3 tier-2
- BKM-Object 19077 tier-2
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- 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.
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