Mummy mask ·  Africa-Antiques, Egypt · ID: 3032560

Description

wood, the head ornament covered with clay-like mass and gypsum, originally painted in bright colours, the face without mass, dominated by the large painted eyes, written remark backside: “Last remains of my …excavations in …1893…E. Heltzel” (difficult to read or not readable at all), dam., missing parts;
these masks were not intended as portraits of their subject. Rather, they represented the idealized features of the deceased following his resurrection as a divine being in the afterlife.

Comparing literature

Schulz, Regine & Matthias Seidel, Egyptian Art, Baltimore 2009, p. 36