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

Funerary Mask Roman Period

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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

A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.

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Materials PaintPlaster
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