Mask of Iineferty ca. 1279–1213 New Kingdom, Ramesside This elegant mask of cartonnage was placed over the head of Iineferty's mummy. She is shown wearing a long braided wig with decorative bands just below chin level and a floral fillet surmounted by a lotus blossom, symbolic of rebirth. Her face is framed by separate locks of hair that end in thin pigtails, characteristic of the late 18th and 19th Dynasties. The lower part of the mask takes the shape of a floral collar that would have fit over Iineferty's objects in the collection that were discovered in the same tomb ca
Mask of Iineferty ca. 1279–1213 New Kingdom, Ramesside This elegant mask of cartonnage was placed over the head of Iineferty's mummy. She is shown wearing a long braided wig with decorative bands just below chin level and a floral fillet surmounted by a lotus blossom, symbolic of rebirth. Her face is framed by separate locks of hair that end in thin pigtails, characteristic of the late 18th and 19th Dynasties. The lower part of the mask takes the shape of a floral collar that would have fit over Iineferty's objects in the collection that were discovered in the same tomb can be viewed Mask of Iineferty. ca. 1279–1213 Wood, paste, paint. New Kingdom, Ramesside. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Medina, Tomb of Sennedjem (TT 1), Egyptian Antiquities Service/Maspero excavations, 1885–86. Dynasty 19
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