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Fragment of a mortuary covering

EGYPT, Thebes
Fragment of a mortuary covering
 Ptolemaic Period – Roman Period 332 BCE-395 CE

Medium
cartonnage and painted gesso

Measurements
23.5 × 18.0 × 4.5 cm irreg.

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by James E. Sherrard Esq., 1881

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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Egypt

Accession Number
15B-D1A

Department
Antiquities

Physical description
An extremely fragile fragment of the head from an anthropoid coffin. The cartonnage is quite buckled down the left hand side. The facial features are modelled and the face painted red with the eyes picked out in black and white.

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