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Egyptian Polychrome and Gilt Cartonnage Mummy Mask, Late Ptolemaic/Early Roman Period, C. Late 1st Century BC/Early 1st Century AD
Wearing a long richly decorated wig painted with a checkerboard pattern of rosettes, lotus and papyrus flowers, and surmounted by a winged scarab with gold sun-disk, and Re-Harakhti with wings spread beneath a field of stars, the broad gold collar ornamented with Eyes of Horus, disks, lotus and papyrus festoons, rosettes, and beads, the face with long finely-painted blue eyebrows and cosmetic lines in relief.
Source: sothebys.com
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The Mask of Sorrow. Magadan, Russia
(Маска скорби, Maska skorbi)
The blue and gold braided beard on the burial mask of famed pharaoh Tutankhamun was hastily glued back on with epoxy, damaging the relic after it was knocked during cleaning, conservators at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo said Wednesday.
As a museum person, this hurts me deeply. Those conservators aren't very good at their jobs and if this happened in American, they would no longer be working for a museum after a blunder such as this.