File:Mummy Mask, Ancient Egypt, Brücke-Museum Berlin, 65057, view a.jpg
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Mummy Mask, Ancient Egypt, 800-300 BC?, front view
Summary
Object
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English: once known creator
Deutsch: einst bekannte*r Urheber*in |
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| Description |
Deutsch: Mumienmaske
English: Mummy Mask |
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| Date | between -800 and -300 BC (?) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | wood, Fassung (Q1225161) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 25.5 cm (10 in); width: 22.5 cm (8.8 in); depth: 8.5 cm (3.3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
H 93 |
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| Place of creation | Ancient Egypt (Q11768) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
transferred to Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung (Q108731834) from Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Q161143) |
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| Notes |
Deutsch: Diese Maske gehörte zu dem mumifizierten Leichnam eines Individuums. Die großen aufgemalten Augen sollten für die/den Verstorbene/n ein Fenster zur Welt sein. Zwar zeigt die Maske keinerlei Hinweise auf königliche Herkunft, aber die aufwendige und kostspielige Mumifizierung, die sie/ihn auf das Leben nach dem Tod vorbereitete, verweist auf eine Person in gehobener sozialer Stellung.
Vermutlich handelt es sich um das Gesichtsstück eines Komposit-Sargbretts. Die Löcher am Maskenrand hielten Dübel zur Vernagelung mit passenden Teilen. Die Masken oder Bretter wurden so in die Mumie eingewickelt, dass sie sichtbar blieben. Diese Objektgattung kommt um 2000 v. Chr. auf und ist in verschiedenen Formen und Materialien bis in die römische Zeit (ca. 3. Jh. n. Chr) belegt.
English: This mask belonged to the mummified corpse of an individual. The large painted eyes were supposed to be a window to the world for the deceased. Although the mask shows no indication of royal origin, the elaborate and costly mummification that prepared her/him for life after death points to a person in a high social position.
It is probably the face piece of a composite coffin board. The holes on the edge of the mask held dowels for nailing to matching pieces. The masks or boards were wrapped in the mummy in such a way that they remained visible. This object genre appears around 2000 B.C. and is attested in various forms and materials until the Roman period (ca. 3rd century A.D.). |
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Photograph
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English: Mummy Mask, Ancient Egypt, 800-300 BC?, front view  |
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| Source | BrückeMuseumBerlin | |||
| Author | Nick Ash, Berlin | |||
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The estate of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, owned by the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation at the Brücke Museum, contains his collection of around 100 sculptures and objects with colonial backgrounds. The Brücke artist himself never travelled outside Europe and, to the best of current knowledge, bought these objects in the art trade and from private owners from the 1910s onwards. The collection includes ritual and everyday objects, alongside souvenirs for the Western market. The way they were perceived underwent changes: they came to be seen as objects of art and decoration. Little is known of their origins, the circumstances of their acquisition, or the historical and current importance of the objects. Most of them originate from Germany’s former colonies, thus referring directly to German Expressionists’ entanglements in the often unlawful appropriation of material culture in colonially occupied lands. More
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