Object Title
Mummy Mask
Measurements
19.7 x 17.8 x 12.7 cm
Creation Date
30 BCE-323 CE
Credit Line
Gift of Joseph A. Lewis II and Sofi Lewis
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/31284/mummy-mask?ctx=3b25eaa7db2c396a29d9f34b7947b828e25f4aa4&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 100 years
Provenance Information
With Arte Primitivo, New York, New York, October 8, 2003, lot 43. Ex coll. Joseph and Sofi Lewis, United States, purchased from Sue McGovern-Huffman [Sands of Time Antiquities], Washington DC, February 3, 2008.
Exhibition Information
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, June 6, 2013 - Present
Publication Information
Asja Müller, Ägyptens schöne Gesichter : die Mumienmasken der römischen Kaiserzeit und ihre Funktion im Totenritual (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2021), 334.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Cumulative facts and circumstances
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
The Carlos continues to conduct provenance research on this and all objects in our collection.