Cartonnage mask, of a male Egypt

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Cartonnage mask, Unknown date
Egypt
Plaster

Museum number: 1976-793

Painted plaster mask of a young male or boy, with black hair cut in a fringe. The face is brown, the lips and nostrils pink, and the hair and eyebrows black. Over the top of the head and down over the shoulders and across the chest are painted panels in yellow, pink, white and black, with representations of a winged scarab, and the god Anubis the jackal.