Mummy Mask of a Man
Description
Object Label: Egyptian men living under Roman rule used mummy masks that combined contemporary and traditional elements. This example features wavy locks of black hair, a Roman fashion at this time. The protective winged scarab on top decorates a traditional headdress adorned with lappets containing images of the deceased’s mummy before Osiris, god of the dead. The face is unlined and ageless, also a traditional element. Caption: Mummy Mask of a Man, early 1st century C.E.. Stucco, gold leaf, pigment, 20 x 12 x 7 1/4 in., 7.5 lb. (50.8 x 30.5 x 18.4 cm, 3.4kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 72.57. (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 gilded and painted funerary mummy mask front face of a male, with wig-like black hair and a gold-painted face, bordered by colored collar and patterned shoulder panels.
The image shows a rectangular, anthropoid-style Egyptian mummy mask/man-face viewed straight-on. The face is modeled in gold/yellow with a calm expression, outlined eyebrows, dark painted eyes, and a short mouth. The hair is indicated by dark blue/black curls across the top of the forehead and around the brow line. A broad, gold-painted collar frames the neck and shoulders, decorated with alternating bands and registers featuring painted figures and symbols in red, blue, and white on a light ground. Along both sides of the collar/shoulder area are structured decorative panels with repeated horizontal bands; a central vertical element is present in the chest/collar area. At the top of the mask, a rounded gold element sits on the headdress/wig surface (possibly a finial). No clearly legible hieroglyphic text, cartouches, or alphabetic scripts can be read in the provided image at this resolution.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 72.57 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3813 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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