Sarcophagus Mask on Stand Egypt, Ptolemaic Era, 600-30 BCE Item #:1986, Ht: 17.5” https://vanishingarts.gallery/product/wood-sarcophagas-relief-mask-egypt-c-664-30-bce-1986/ ● In elite Egyptian burial rites, Sarcophagus masks were placed over the head of the mummy inside the coffin. ● They were believed to provide protection and to help the departed soul find a body in which to reside in the afterlife. ● Ptolemaic Era masks like this one combined Egyptian funerary art with Greek influences, repr