Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Cartonnage Mask of a Woman

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Description

Caption: Cartonnage Mask of a Woman, 1st century C.E.. Linen, gesso, gold leaf, glass, faience, 23 x 14 x 9 in. (58.4 x 35.6 x 22.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 69.35. (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 gilded bust of a figure with a headdress and decorative necklace.

The artifact is a gilded mummy portrait depicting a figure adorned with an ornate headdress and a detailed necklace of circular decorations. The figure holds a bunch of grapes and wears a gold-colored garment. The style is characteristic of funerary masks, combining both Hellenistic and Egyptian elements, indicative of the Roman Period in Egypt.

funerary Roman good
Materials goldwood

Connections

Materials WoodGold

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 69.35 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 3778 tier-2
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