Cartonnage mask of the steward Tjay

An image of Mummy Trappings/Mummy Mask. Cartonnage Mask. This mask belonged to the steward Tjay, it is composed of layers of linen and plaster forming an idealised face. This type of mask was placed directly over the wrapped head of the corpse. Painted face with eyebrows, eyes, mustache and beard detailed in black; eyes wide, outlined in black, with an elongated inner canthus and a blue fish-tailed cosmetic line; pupils black; ears made of plaster. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Beni Hasan; tomb 275. Cartonnage, linen, plaster, painted, height 27.5 cm, width 19 cm, 2055- 1985 B.C. Eleventh Dynasty. Middle Kingdom. Production Note: At Beni Hasan in this period corpses were not fully mummified but simply wrapped in linen and plaster.

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Mummy Trappings/Mummy Mask. Cartonnage Mask. This mask belonged to the steward Tjay, it is composed of layers of linen and plaster forming an idealised face. This type of mask was placed directly over the wrapped head of the corpse. Painted face with eyebrows, eyes, mustache and beard detailed in black; eyes wide, outlined in black, with an elongated inner canthus and a blue fish-tailed cosmetic line; pupils black; ears made of plaster. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Beni Hasan; tomb 275. Cartonnage, linen, plaster, painted, height 27.5 cm, width 19 cm, 2055- 1985 B.C. Eleventh Dynasty. Middle Kingdom. Production Note: At Beni Hasan in this period corpses were not fully mummified but simply wrapped in linen and plaster.

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Accession Number: E.198.1903
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/39.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 644.11kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 39/1
Captured: 2015:07:31 11:34:58

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Ancient Egypt antiquity BC bearded beards beni hasan cartonnage cosmetics Egyptian eyeliner faces Fitz_ANT funerary equipment linen make-up male mask Middle Kingdom moustache moustachioed mummy mummy trappings mustache painted plaster

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