A Roman Period child's mummy in the Saffron Walden Museum

Abstract

In the Egyptian collection of the Saffron Walden Museum in Essex, the painted linen portion of a mummy mask from Deir el-Bahri forms the outer wrapping of the mummy of a child. The mask is part of a well-attested group of such objects dating to the late Roman Period (c.250–300 CE), offering a terminus post quem for the mummy.