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Miniature Mask for a Canopic Bundle in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010

Miniature Mask for a Canopic Bundle in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2010
Title: Miniature Mask for a Canopic bundle

Period: New Kingdom

Dynasty: Dynasty 18

Reign: reign of Amenhotep II

Date: ca. 1427–1400 B.C.

Geography: Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Valley of the Kings, Tomb KV 51 ( "The Animal Tomb"), Davis/Ayrton 1906

Medium: Cartonnage, paint

Dimensions: h. 15 cm (5 7/8 in); w. 12.5 cm (4 15/16 in)

Credit Line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915

Accession Number: 30.8.231

Description:

Small masks like this one were sometimes placed over the mummified canopic bundles containing the four internal organs that were removed during mummification.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/egypti...

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