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Cartonnage: E.GA.290.1949

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Current Location: Exhibition: Exhibition: Made in Ancient Egypt, 3 October 2025 – 12 April 2026 (Mellon Gallery)

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Partly gilded cartonnage mask featuring a striped close-fitting shoulder-length wig, carbon black painted eyebrows, black eye outlines and pupils. Underneath the gilding is a thick white calcite preparation layer. The yellow stripes on the wig are orpiment. It may have been intended that blue stripes would alternate with the orpiment yellow.

Partly gilded cartonnage mask featuring a striped close-fitting shoulder-length wig, carbon black painted eyebrows, black eye outlines and pupils. Underneath the gilding is a thick white calcite preparation layer. The yellow stripes on the wig are orpiment. It may have been intended that blue stripes would alternate with the orpiment yellow.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Major Robert Grenville Gayer Anderson, Pasha, 1945, received 1949

Measurements and weight

Height: 16 cm
Thickness: 3.1 cm
Width: 15 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1949) by Gayer-Anderson, R. G. (Major)

Dating

26th Dynasty
Late Period
-0380 - 30

Project

  • Egypt

Materials used in production

yellow (orpiment), black (carbon black) Pigments
Cartonnage
Gilding
Calcite

Techniques used in production

Painted
Cartonnage
Gilded

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Identification numbers

Accession number: E.GA.290.1949
Primary reference Number: 61988
Oldadmincategory: M

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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 6 October 2025

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

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