IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 50810 accession number: E.198.1903 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 11 March 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cartonnage mask of a man called Tjay with painted facial details including broad eyebrows, eyes, beard and moustache. The mask is made from a layer of white calcite paste covered with scraps of linen impregnated with plant gum. A final paste layer was applied over this, and the ears were modelled in paste. The yellow flesh is painted with an arsenic pigment, probably orpiment. The corners of the eyes are painted with red earth and the cosmetic lines with Egyptian blue. This mask was lying over the face of Tjay’s mummy, found undisturbed in his coffin in tomb 275 at Beni Hasan. By the end of the First Intermediate Period (about 2010 BC), the ideal form of the dead, known as ‘sah’ in ancient Egyptian, was a mummy wrapped in white linen with a mask covering his face. title: mummy mask LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/50810 TECHNIQUES ---------- painted cartonnage CATEGORIES ------ category: mummy trappings DATING ------ creation date: 2055 - 1985 creation date earliest: 2055 creation date latest: 1985 culture: Eleventh Dynasty culture: Middle Kingdom DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 19 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Death on the Nile: Uncovering the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt CITATIONS -------- Burial customs of ancient Egypt; as illustrated by tombs of the Middle Kingdom, being a report of excavations made in the necropolis of Beni Hasan during 1902-4 Pharaohs and mortals; Egyptian art in the Middle Kingdom Death on the Nile: Uncovering the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant48/E_198_1903_1_201507_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 769 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant48/mid_E_198_1903_1_201507_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 666 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant48/E_198_1903_1_201507_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 769 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant48/preview_E_198_1903_1_201507_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: 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