Large mummy mask, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 100 BC - 700 AD, Peru, Moche, Size: H: 22,5 cm, B: 26 cm (H: 8.9 inch, B: 10.2 inch), ID: 3052945

Large mummy mask, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 100 BC - 700 AD, Peru, Moche, Size: H: 22,5 cm, B: 26 cm (H: 8.9 inch, B: 10.2 inch), ID: 3052945 - 2/2

Lot 70

Large mummy mask, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 100 BC - 700 AD · Peru, Moche · ID: 3052945

Name: Large mummy mask, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 100 BC - 700 AD
SKU: 3052945
Availability: Discontinued

Not available anymore

Provenance

Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 27 June 1987, lot 211
Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart, Germany
German Private Collection, Munich

Size

H: 22,5 cm, B: 26 cm

H: 8.9 inch, B: 10.2 inch

Description

copper sheet, mounted on a green velvet-covered panel, rest. (right ear)

Such masks were placed or sewn onto mummy bundles as false heads. These are by no means individual portraits of the deceased, but rather so-called over-portraits that represent a particular era.

The object Large mummy mask, Early Intermediate Period, ca. 100 BC - 700 AD with the object ID 3052945 was last part of the auction Auction 106 at April 25, 2026 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 70.

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