Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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Property from the Palm Springs Art Museum, Sold to Support the Care of Collections and the William Holden Fund for Acquisitions

An Egyptian Stucco Mummy Mask of a Woman, Roman Period, Trajanic/early Hadrianic, circa 100-120 A.D.

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Property from the Palm Springs Art Museum, Sold to Support the Care of Collections and the William Holden Fund for Acquisitions

An Egyptian Stucco Mummy Mask of a Woman

Roman Period, Trajanic/early Hadrianic, circa 100-120 A.D.


wearing double-hoop earrings each threaded with three beads, her youthful face with black and white inlaid glass eyes with delicate cobalt-blue lids, the centrally-parted wavy coiffure with a fringe of corkscrew curls framing the forehead, and falling in front of the ears; remains of black pigment.

Height 15.2 cm.

the actor William Holden (1918-1981), Los Angeles
gift of the William Holden Estate to the Palm Springs Art Museum
For very similar masks compare G. Grimm, Die römischen Mumienmasken aus Ägypten, pl. 69, 1-4, examples in Cairo, Karlsruhe, Dijon, and New York; also compare S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Ancient Faces, Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, London, 1997, no. 139, at Eton College.