AA-006 / THE COLLECTION
The gilded funerary mask of Thuya (also written Tuya). The Egyptian Museum’s object entry places it in the New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, during Amenhotep III’s reign. It was found in tomb KV46 in the Valley of the Kings.
THE RECORD BEHIND THE OBJECT
The gilding and the painted eyes read as real colour because the texture is photographic, taken from the same 24 images that built the geometry.
24 raw images processed into a full 360° watertight mesh with Apple's PhotogrammetrySession (RealityKit) at raw detail (126k faces, the highest fidelity level, more real geometry than a prior full-detail pass), cleaned up (self-intersecting and non-manifold faces fixed, holes closed) and texture-compressed to 4096px JPEG at high quality for the web.
IDENTIFICATION & EVIDENCE
The museum entry supports the historical description. Its object dimensions are not a validation of this digital model’s scale.
Object entry, consulted 14 October 2026. Supports the identification and New Kingdom / 18th Dynasty attribution.
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Atabany, Omar. “Thuya Mask” (AA-006). ArchaeoArchive. https://archaeoarchive.com/view/thuya-mask.
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