Wooden mummy mask of a woman with scarab

Fragment of coffin or board with face, part of headdress. Female coffin, probably. Gessoed surface intact and painted. Scarab beetle above forehead on painted feathered headdress.

Purchased by J. Hirshhorn by the Delacorte Gallery, New York, in 1959.

Wooden mummy mask of a woman with scarab
Wooden mummy mask of a woman with scarab
Late Period-Ptolemaic, c. 200 B.C.-100 A.D.
National Museum of Natural History. 370312
Wooden mummy mask of a woman with scarab
Wooden mummy mask of a woman with scarab