Gold Mask of Shoshenq IIThe funeral mask of King Shoshenq II was found on the pharaoh’s mummy
Gold Mask of Shoshenq IIThe funeral mask of King Shoshenq II was found on the pharaoh’s mummy but was seriously damaged. It is made from a thick sheet of gold with hollow spaces for the eyes and the eyebrows where glass paste was to be inserted.It was fixed to the mummy by five small perforated tenons, three on the forehead and two below the ears. The facial features depict the king as a young man, in accordance with Egyptian artistic traditions, indicating that the deceased is to be resurrected at this young age.Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, reign of Shoshenq II, ca. 887-885 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.JE 72163 -- source link
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