Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other
Funerary Mask of a Woman
Description
Cartonnage, gesso, paint, gold, copper alloy, faience
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 painted and gilded cartonnage mummy mask.
The artifact is a detailed cartonnage mummy mask featuring a painted and gilded face. The headdress is elaborate, with vivid colors and intricate patterns typical of ancient Egyptian funerary art. It displays realistic facial features with a serene expression, adorned with a broad collar of colorful beads.
funerary
Ptolemaic
good
Materials
cartonnagegold
Cross-references (4)
- Wikidata-Q Q116246351 tier-1
- Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- Inventory-Number 30.8.68 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
- MET-Object 544824 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.