Apart from the portraits painted on wood, the Roman Period is also characterised by the employment of funerary masks made of painted cartonnage or plaster. This tradition is purely Egyptian, although the style derives from Graeco-Roman portraiture. These masks show the head or the upper part of the body of the deceased with the hands placed on the chest; jewels, crowns, garlands are employed as decorative motifs. The Brussels plaster mask shows a man with an oval face. The large and slightly elongated eyes are inlaid. The piece bears a crown of vegetation symbolizing victory over death.
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