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Description : An Egyptian stucco polychrome mummy mask Roman Period, 2nd Century A D Inlaid with glass eyes with pronounced dark blue rims and large black irises set in opaque white, with rose pink coloured skin, and a textured black painted moustache and beard, the remains of the hair arranged in three rows of curls, with traces of black pigment, 8in. ( 22cm.), repaired with restoration and over painting, mounted E3000- 5000 Footnote: Provenance: Purchased from Frederick Schultz, New York 1991 Published: Sotheby's London, Antiquities, Monday 12th December 1988, lot 272 Literature: For similar bearded portrait masks, cf. S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Ancient Faces, Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt (London 1997) p. 133 and 143, no. 147 and 149

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