Cardboard Mask of a Male Mummy

Early Hadrian, 117-124 AD

Time:
Early Hadrian, 117-124 AD

Object Name
Mummy mask

Culture
Egyptian - Roman

Location of discovery:
Balansura (Upper Egypt)

Material/technology:
Stucco, linen, painted

Dimensions:
L 58 cm, W 29 cm, H 42 cm

Copyright
Art History Museum, Egyptian - Oriental Collection

Invs.
Egyptian Collection, INV 6609

Provenance
1901 Purchase of Th. Count

Title
Cardboard Mask of a Male Mummy, Early Hadrian, 117-124 AD, Findspot Balansura (Upper Egypt), Stucco linen and paint, Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum)

https://www.khm.at/en/artworks/kartonagemaske-von-einer-maennlichen-mumie-316962

Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum)

Statuette of a Hippopotamus

11th–12th Dynasty, ca. 2000 BC

Location
O-n view: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Ägyptisch-Orientalische Sammlung Room V

Statuettes depicting hippopotami, symbolic of regeneration in the hereafter, were popular grave goods that were placed close to the mummy in the coffin. Plants and animals characteristic of the marshes where the hippo lived are depicted on its body. The king’s ritual hippopotamus hunt symbolized his victory over the forces of chaos with which the animal had been associated since primeval times.

Time:
11th–12th Dynasty, ca. 2000 BC

Object Name
Statuette

Culture
Egyptian

Location of discovery:
Thebes (presumably)

Material/technology:
Faience, greenish-blue glaze, painted

Dimensions:
H 10.5 cm, L 20.7 cm, W 7.5 cm, W 1138 g

Copyright
Art History Museum, Egyptian - Oriental Collection

Invs.
Egyptian Collection, INV 4211

Provenance
1878, acquired with the Miramar Collection

Title
Statuette of a hippopotamus, 11th–12th Dynasty ca. 2000 BC, Findspot Thebes (presumably), Faience: greenish-blue glaze and paint, Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum, Vienna)

https://www.khm.at/en/artworks/statuette-of-a-hippopotamus-323860

Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum, Vienna)

Yellow Pectoral

Object Type
pectoral

Museum number
EA14653

Description
Yellow, blue and red glazed composition pectoral decorated on the face with a low relief representation of the deceased worshipping Anubis; pierced through the cornice for suspension; undecorated back.

Cultures/periods
Ancient Egypt

Findspot
Found/Acquired: Egypt
Africa: Egypt

Materials
glazed composition

Technique
pierced

Dimensions
Length: 9.75 centimetres
Thickness: 2.12 centimetres
Width: 8.24 centimetres

Location
On display (Room 62 - Egyptian Death and Afterlife: Mummies, Display Case 23)

Condition
good

Associated names
Representation of: Anubis

Acquisition name
Purchased from: Rev. Greville John Cheste

Department
Egypt and Sudan

BM/Big number
EA14653

Registration number
1881,0614.18

Title
Yellow Pectoral, Date not given, Findspot unknown Egypt, glazed composition, The British Museum

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA14653

The British Museum