Tut Tut: Golden Boy’s Famous Visage IS in the Show…Sort Of

The publicity image of Tutankhamun’s golden face that appeared to me to be depict the boy king’s iconic funerary mask (not in the current exhibition) is in fact “a blowup of the head from a 16-inch [canopic] coffinette that stored Tut’s liver,” as I learned from the review by John Zeaman in my local newspaper, the Bergen Record. “Visitors who expect to see the famous mask will have to make do with this tiny version.”
Could have fooled me (and did). I knew the famous mask wasn’t in the show, but I didn’t realize that the publicity photo reproduced a detail from an object that IS on display. I stand corrected. And I’m sure that the sponsors chose as their logo this petite liver container because of its central importance to the exhibition, and not for the confusion that it might cause in the minds of museumgoers trying to decide whether to fork over an admission fee ($32.50) fit for a pharaoh.