Funerary Mask
Description
Roman Period, A.D. 1st–4th century. Plaster, paint. h. 20.3 cm (8 in). From: Egypt. Subject: Masks. Credit: Funds from various donors, 1900.
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 painted plaster funerary mask depicting a human face with stylized dark hair and wide eyes.
The image shows a frontal view of an ancient Egyptian-style funerary face mask. The forehead and hair are modeled in dark brown/black with raised, wave-like curls. The eyes are outlined in dark pigment with dark pupils, and the brows and facial features (nose, mouth) are picked out with reddish-brown/orange-brown paint. The beard area is shown as a painted facial strip, and there are visible losses around the edges and lower left/right regions, suggesting fragmentary condition. The lower chin and cheeks have a light base color, with orange/reddish paint accenting the cheeks and beard area. No clear hieroglyphs, cartouches, or textual inscriptions are visible. No specific deity symbols are identifiable on the mask from the provided view.
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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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