Website: https://facesrevealed.museoegizio.it/
Principal Investigator(s): Stefania Mainieri, NELC & Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Faces Revealed is a three-year research Project (2021-2024) funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 895130.
Started in 2021 – in collaboration with Museo Egizio di Torino (Italy), UCLA, the Politecnico di Milano (Italy), the Vatican Coffin Project, and different Museums in Europe, the United States and Egypt – the Project aims to examine Egyptian yellow coffins’ lids through a new and in-progress methodology approach based on the analysis of facial features and the way in rendering the volumes and the geometry on the lids. The project combines the traditional Egyptological methodology with New Technology, especially photogrammetry. The main focus of the research is to understand whether the different traits can be linked to different productions and if so whether they then reflect the stylistic features of a specific chronological period. Alongside the focus on the production and style, the painted masks are compared with the carved/modeled ones, to see how faithfully the underlying features reproduce (or not) the carved ones and whether the different features and proportions can indicate also any possible ancient reuse of these coffins.