Upper part of a marble face. From the Asklepieion in Athens, ca.350 B.C.E.
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Egyptian Funerary Mask, 18th Dynasty
1400-1300 BCE
encrusted wood
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Fragment of the Face of a Queen, Egypt, ca. 1353-1336 B.C.E
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Neolithic spirit masks from Nahal Hemar, 7,000 B.C.E
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Aegis of Egyptian goddess Bastet. ca. 9th–8th cent B.C.
Mesopotamia, Nimrud, Ivory
2.09 x 1.89 x 0.94 in
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Stone mask from pre-ceramic neolithic period dates to 7000 BCE and probably the oldest mask in the world
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Paging . It's one of those smiley faced tattie things! They've been around for longer than I thought.
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After that the evolution added few more layers of mask ;)









