A Wood Mummy Mask, 22nd/24th dynasty, 944-716 B.C.

wearing a smooth rounded wig passing behind the ears, a mortise beneath the chin for attachment of the beard, the finely carved face with outlined lips, the large almond-shaped eyes and the eyebrows recessed for inlay.

Georges Perrot (1832-1914), Paris

The archaeologist Georges Perrot was professor at the Sorbonne from 1875, director of the École normale supérieure, Paris, from 1888 to 1902, and permanent secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions et des Belles-Lettres. Praised for his publication of Augustus' res gestae inscription in Ankara, Perrot edited and contributed to the Revue archéologique, and wrote, in collaboration with Charles Chippiez, a monumental Histoire de l’art dans l’antiquité (10 vols., 1882–1914), including a volume on Egyptian art, which served as an art historical reference work for several generations.