Terracotta Mask, Egypt

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Terracotta Mask, unknown date

Field collection: Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Terracotta
Collected by: Egypt Exploration Fund

Museum number 1975-33

Fragment of a terracotta mask; slightly smaller than life-size. It incorporates eyes, nose, mouth and chin and it seems to be pierced for threading. Colours of white, red and black paint remain.