mummy mask

An item at Louvre

Funerary breastplate mask of a woman in painted stucco. The hairstyle is composed of three parts: at the back, the straightened hair is arranged regularly in locks; the forehead is topped with fine, tight curls arranged in a pyramid; another row of looser curls on the forehead become "English" curls on the temples. The eyebrows are outlined in black. The eye rims and the eyes are inlaid with glass. Straight, thin nose, thin, half-open mouth, broad, round chin.

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

An exhibit at Louvre

The collections of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities present the civilization that evolved on the banks of the Nile, from the end of Prehistory (around 4,000 BCE) to the Christian era (from the 4th century CE).

Louvre