A Wood Mummy Mask, Late Period, 716-30 B.C.

with full outlined lips and large schematically carved eyes, the central portion of the wig remaining; remains of gesso and  faint traces of blue pigment.

acquired by Ambassador Battle in Egypt between 1964 and 1967
by descent to the present owners

good and as shown in photograph, checks and holes in wood still retain some of the original plaster with with they were filled before application of gesso and pigment, edges of ears abraded and chipped
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Lucius D. Battle (1918-2008) served as First Secretary in the US Embassy in Copenhagen from 1953 to 1955, as president of Colonial Williamsburg from 1956 to 1960, as Executive Secretary in the State Department from 1960 to 1962, as Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Culture from 1962 to 1964, and as Ambassador to Egypt from 1964 to 1967. After working in the private sector from 1968 to 1980, with a three-year interruption as president of the Middle East Institute (1973-1975), Ambassador Battle started the Foreign Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and finished his career as president of the Middle East Institute from 1986 until his retirement in 1990.