Funerary Mask ca. 50 –50 Ptolemaic or Roman Period This fragment has the characteristics of coffins created in Akhmim in the second half of the first century BC and the early part of the first century AD. It is created from mud and straw, and like female coffins in that group shows the deceased wearing a great large floral crown bound with a ribbon, a straight Egyptian wig, and on the shoulder a vertically striped/pleated the basis of inscriptions on some Akhmim coffins, the female coffins such as the museum's appear to be representations of the deceased as Hathor. Their dr

Funerary Mask ca. 50 –50 Ptolemaic or Roman Period This fragment has the characteristics of coffins created in Akhmim in the second half of the first century BC and the early part of the first century AD. It is created from mud and straw, and like female coffins in that group shows the deceased wearing a great large floral crown bound with a ribbon, a straight Egyptian wig, and on the shoulder a vertically striped/pleated the basis of inscriptions on some Akhmim coffins, the female coffins such as the museum's appear to be representations of the deceased as Hathor. Their dress represents the Egyptian pleated knotted dress that seems to have developed associations with Funerary Mask. ca. 50 –50 gesso or mud?, paint. Ptolemaic or Roman Period. From Egypt

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