Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · other

Funerary Mask of a Woman

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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

Connections

Found at Dra Abu el-Naga
Materials GoldCartonnage

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.