Intact Cartonnage funerary mask of a woman. Gilded face and neck, with painted wig. The face has been modelled out of the cartonnage and then accentuated using coloured and gold paint. The eyes are black rimmed with white, painted over the gold At the throat a heart? shaped pendant on a string has been modelled, and then overlaid with gold along with the rest of the neck. The wig is a background blue colour, overlaid with decorative scenes in coloured paint. On the top of the head is a vulture flanked by two Wadjet eyes. On the forehead/fillet is a winged sundisc. The lapets of the wig, fall either side of the face, and have a figure of Osiris on his throne drawn facing the neck of the mask on each side. Below these figures are a rows of decoration (decorative bands followed by a row of Uraei, and then a row of seated male deities). Between the lapets, and below the gilded throat are decorative bands containing floral elements (to ape faience collars/floral garlands?) To left and right of the wig lapets are chequered panels ending in scenes of Anubis as a jackel on a shrine. On the mask’s left side is a painted square with four anthropomorphic deities facing towards the front (A female cat headed deity wearing the crown (Bastet?); Osiris: Isis; and Nephthys). The square is above the shoulder (the sides of the mask are cut away below the head to enable the piece to be set over a mummmy, shoulders protruding from either side.) On the mask’s right side is a square, containing (Isis; Serqet; the deceased? (a female figure); and Nephthys). The back of the mask, has the ends of the fillet painted on, next to which uraei rise, and beneath which is a standing figure of Maat, flanked by human head ‘Ba’ perched on shrines. Cracks are visible on the outer surfaces of the sides and back.
Colour: gold & blue & red & black & red & white